From: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
59423@debbugs.gnu.org,
"Pierre Langlois" <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
Subject: bug#59423: Invalid 'location' field generated in dovecot configuration
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 20:19:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leny93yp.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt8fjbbo.fsf@gmail.com>
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Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> skribis:
>>
>>> After updating the system, the dovecot service got confused and started
>>> moving around all mailboxes. I looked up the configuration and noticed
>>> strange invalid syntax for the location field:
>>>
>>> location=#<<location> file: "path/to/config.scm" line: 297 column: 20>
>>>
>>>
>>> Because the # character is interpreted as a comment, dovecot doesn't
>>> crash and instead moves mailboxes around in weird ways I don't quite
>>> understand :-/.
>>
>> Ouch, sorry about that.
>
> That's a bad situation indeed, apologies for the breakage!
No worries! Bugs happen :-). It was confusing but I didn't lose any
data, dovecot moved folders to archives so all I had to do was rolling
guix back and move folders again.
>>> I did a `git bisect` with `guix time-machine` (this tool is invaluable)
>>> and found the issue started with this commit:
>>>
>>> commit 543d971ed2a1d9eb934af1f51930741d7cc4e7ef
>>> Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Fri Oct 28 17:06:16 2022 -0400
>>> services: configuration: Re-order generated record fields.
>>
>> I believe this is now fixed.
>>
>> Maxim, can you confirm?
>
> Pierre, has it resolved on your side? I don't use dovecot myself, and
> since it doesn't crash, I don't think the dovecot will be an indicator
> of resolution.
I'm afraid I'm still experiencing the issue, I'll follow-up on the other
thread.
Thanks,
Pierre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-25 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-20 21:53 bug#59423: Invalid 'location' field generated in dovecot configuration Pierre Langlois
2022-11-22 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-25 15:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-25 20:19 ` Pierre Langlois [this message]
2022-11-25 19:17 ` mirai
2022-11-25 20:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-25 20:25 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-11-25 20:50 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-11-25 21:09 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-11-26 2:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-26 19:32 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-11-27 2:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-28 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-28 20:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-28 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-29 1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-02 9:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-02 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-03 3:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-04 16:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-04 21:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-06 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-01 20:29 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-11-26 23:17 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2022-12-01 21:55 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-12-03 2:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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