Mailing List Archive: Berkeley DB error

Berkeley DB error

May 30, 2008, 3:20 AM

Post #1 of 6 (15345 views)

Hi list,

the last 4 days I found the following error in the mainlog of my exim-4.32
installation:

Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

I can't remember that I have changed something on my server last 4 days.
Any mail will be delivered and it seems that no problem occurs, but the
log growes with logging this errorline all 10 seconds.

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Re: Berkeley DB error [ In reply to ]

msherman at projectile

May 30, 2008, 5:45 AM

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Jens Strohschnitter wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> the last 4 days I found the following error in the mainlog of my exim-4.32
> installation:
>
> Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>
> I can't remember that I have changed something on my server last 4 days.
> Any mail will be delivered and it seems that no problem occurs, but the
> log growes with logging this errorline all 10 seconds.

I suspect it might be failing under the sheer weight of your .sig file.

- Marc

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Re: Berkeley DB error [ In reply to ]

phil at medwayhosting

May 30, 2008, 6:10 AM

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Sherman" <msherman@projectile.ca>
To: <exim-users@exim.org>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Berkeley DB error

> I suspect it might be failing under the sheer weight of your .sig file.

Grabbing mop. C&C next time please :-)

Yuk - I hate wet kb's.

All the best

Phil

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Re: Berkeley DB error [ In reply to ]

jpb15 at admin

May 30, 2008, 6:22 AM

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>
> the last 4 days I found the following error in the mainlog of
> my exim-4.32
> installation:
>
> Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>

A Berkeley DB is probably corrupt. Do the logs give any information about which one it might be ? Do
you use Berkely DBs for any lookups ? If not, it's probably one of the retry time DBs (they can be
found in /var/spool/exim/db if I remember the defaults correctly). You could just delete them, Exim
should recreate them and all you'll lose is the existing retry data.
J

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Re: Berkeley DB error [ In reply to ]

suse-linux at rwz

Jun 2, 2008, 1:01 AM

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> > the last 4 days I found the following error in the mainlog of
> > my exim-4.32
> > installation:
> >
> > Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> >
>
> A Berkeley DB is probably corrupt. Do the logs give any information about which one it might be ? Do
> you use Berkely DBs for any lookups ? If not, it's probably one of the retry time DBs (they can be
> found in /var/spool/exim/db if I remember the defaults correctly). You could just delete them, Exim
> should recreate them and all you'll lose is the existing retry data.

Ok, I have removed all data frm /var/spool/exim/db/* and after reloading exim the message
does not appear anyway in the logs. Thanx fpr help!

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