cyrus/lmtpunix: db4: Logging region out of memory / kmail2 sucks

Today I was wondering that I had almost no new mail in my inbox in the morning. After a while I decided to have a look into the server logfiles …. so I learned that postfix wasn’t able to deliver mails via lmtp cause of:

Oct  7 07:45:56 post cyrus/lmtpunix[307]: DBERROR db4: Logging region out of memory; you may need to increase its size
Oct  7 07:45:56 post cyrus/lmtpunix[307]: DBERROR: opening /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db: Cannot allocate memory
Oct  7 07:45:56 post cyrus/lmtpunix[307]: DBERROR: opening /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db: cyrusdb error
Oct  7 07:45:56 post cyrus/lmtpunix[307]: FATAL: lmtpd: unable to init duplicate delivery database
Oct  7 07:45:56 post cyrus/master[754]: service lmtpunix pid 307 in READY state: terminated abnormally

Seems like this can be fixed with:

/etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 stop
cat< /var/lib/cyrus/db/DB_CONFIG
set_cachesize 0 2097152 1
set_lg_regionmax 1048576
EOM
/etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 start

Looking more closer into the logs, it turned out that this trouble started last night when I connected with a client running the soon to be released Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot using the new kmail2.

So it looks like the KDE/Ubuntu folks broke again kmail (or any KDE subsystem), as it also has troubles when migrating over from kmail(1) and it looks like it’s not able to access most of the imap subfolders. Well done!

(new and old) culture

After visiting the great Deadmau5 concert of his Europe Tour in Berlin 7 weeks ago, I’m involved into a traditional cultural event on the technical side on the next weekend.

We are running the plattform for the online streaming of Lohengrin live from the Bayreuth Festival Theatre on Sunday, 14th August 2011. Usually we are coming together around noon and having a BBQ while keeping all the stuff up and running.

To get back into this millenium, we (yes, my girl and me) are at the Highfield festival the weekend afterwards. I guess you can find me at the “white stage” or at camp site. Keep on rocking!

Alone at home

Sometime it happens, that there are school holidays. As my lovely girl used to be a teacher, she has some time off at that period. So she left me with our kids yesterday to visit the grandparents.
It was two hours after leaving, when I was really surprized that I was sitting around and thinking about what to do next, as normaly the weekend are family time.
So I decided to take my bike and a paper map to get of for a trip. Since some years, I usually use my bike to escort the girls or when going to work, which is just a 5 minutes ride, so I thought that would be a great opportunitiy.
I took a backpack with raining clothes, mounted the bike helmet on it, in case I needed to go cross country, some water and my music player.
It was a great ride, beside that I realized I’m not in the same condition as some years ago. Unfortunately this will likely not change in the next 12 mounth, as we have some projects in the queue we need to deal with. Hopefully we will solve that satisfactorily and have a bit more spare time afterwards.

Anyways .. 27,65km in 1h40 is not so bad, as it was hot and humid.
Ride summary:

Monitoring related package updates

  • nagios-plugins
    • stable: uploaded 1.4.15-3squeeze1 fixing #623702
    • testing: entered 1.4.15-4, this basically reduced the dependency footprint of nagios-plugins-standard (#569028)
    • squeeze-backports: uploaded 1.4.15-4~bpo60+1
  • icinga
    • unstable: Alexander Wirt uploaded 1.4.0-2
    • squeeze-backports: uploaded 1.4.0-2~bpo60+1
    • lenny-backports-sloppy: uploaded 1.4.0-2~bpo50+1
  • nagstamon
    • squeeze-backports: uploaded 0.9.6.1-2~bpo60+1, which works with icinga 1.4
  • nagios3
    • unstable: Alexander Wirt uploaded 3.2.3-2
  • check-mk
    • unstable: Alexander Wirt uploaded 1.1.10-1
  • icli
  • nagircbot
    • testing: John Morrissey uploaded initially some weeks ago 0.0.32-1
  • mod-gearman
    • testing: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen uploaded initially some weeks ago 1.0.3-1
  • pnp4nagios
    • testing: Sebastian Harl uploaded some weeks ago 0.6.12-1
    • squeeze-backports: Sebastian Harl uploaded 0.6.12-1~bpo60+1

Some more about packaging nagios and icinga related packages can be found at our team site.


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