From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>
Cc: 8959@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8959: 24.0.50; [nnimap/Gnus] Dovecot panics trying to close mailboxes
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:44:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zkl087w7.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h84i2d6.fsf@gismo.pca.it> (Luca Capello's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:34:13 +0200")
Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> writes:
>> 1) Your dovecot is apparently segfaulting because of something Gnus is
>> doing. Does it stop doing that if you `M-g' the
>> "lists.Debian.pkg.CL-Debian" group?
>
> I tried with four other folders and it seems that the second time
> Dovecot does not segfault, even in the fourth case where I had to
> unfreeze Gnus with `C-g' before hitting `M-g'.
Right. I think the base issue is that if you QRESYNC with a sequence
number that's "too far back", Dovecot (before the patch) would
segfault. If you `M-g' the groups, then that does a total (and slow)
resync of the flags, so that the next QRESYNC won't segfault dovecot.
> I have already backported the patch to the Debian stable package
> (dovecot-imapd_1:1.2.15-7), so I will test it in the following days.
Great.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-29 20:12 bug#8959: 24.0.50; [nnimap/Gnus] Dovecot panics trying to close mailboxes Luca Capello
2011-06-29 22:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-29 23:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 0:42 ` Luca Capello
2011-06-30 0:34 ` Luca Capello
2011-06-30 0:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-06 13:19 ` Luca Capello
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