Probs with queue - unable to stat mess/0/0

Oliver Welter

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May 9, 2007, 3:40:17 AM5/9/07

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Hi Folks,

I have an anoying problem.
In my qmail-send-logfile I see every some minuntes:

warning: unable to stat mess/0/0
warning: unable to stat mess/1/1
...
warning: unable to stat mess/22/22

No, I have not tampered the queue by hand - I had a hanging send process
a while ago and killed the server - perhaps that was an issue.

I also ran queue-repair, it does not report any problems and I also cant
find any orphaned files in todo/ or simlar that match these patterns.
Its very suspicious that its exectly "mess/x/x" - so first and second
name are the same....

I updated from "old" qmail to netqmail a while ago and reused the old
queue dir - might this be an issue ? Any ideas to fix the queue ??

Oliver
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Harald Hanche-Olsen

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May 9, 2007, 4:35:55 AM5/9/07

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+ Oliver Welter <ma...@oliwel.de>:

It shouldn't be.

| I updated from "old" qmail to netqmail a while ago and reused the
| old queue dir - might this be an issue ?

You haven't changed conf-split between the two installations, I
presume?

And what is the result of find /var/qmail/queue -name 0 -print ?

- Harald

Oliver Welter

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May 9, 2007, 11:47:41 AM5/9/07

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Hi Harald,

> | I updated from "old" qmail to netqmail a while ago and reused the
> | old queue dir - might this be an issue ?
>

> You haven't changed conf-split between the two installations, I
> presume?

Not that I know, I reused the old configfiles and didnt set any
non-default options - if you tell me where I can find the setting used I
will have a look

> And what is the result of find /var/qmail/queue -name 0 -print ?

/var/qmail/queue/info/0
/var/qmail/queue/mess/0
/var/qmail/queue/remote/0
/var/qmail/queue/local/0
/var/qmail/queue/todo/0
/var/qmail/queue/intd/0

Same for everything else between 1 and 22

Harald Hanche-Olsen

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May 9, 2007, 12:12:59 PM5/9/07

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+ Oliver Welter <ma...@oliwel.de>:

| Hi Harald,

|
| > | I updated from "old" qmail to netqmail a while ago and reused the
| > | old queue dir - might this be an issue ?
| >

| > You haven't changed conf-split between the two installations, I
| > presume?
|

| Not that I know, I reused the old configfiles and didnt set any
| non-default options - if you tell me where I can find the setting
| used I will have a look

In the source code. But see below.

| > And what is the result of find /var/qmail/queue -name 0 -print ?
|

Methinks you had the big-todo patch applied to your old qmail
installation, but not the new one.

If you don't want the patch, just rmdir the extra directories 0,...,22
in todo/ and intd/. If you do want it, heed the warning that comes
with the patch.

- Harald

Feizhou

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May 10, 2007, 3:27:22 AM5/10/07

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> seems as you were right ;)
> rm'ing the both dirs did the trick.
>

I hope the queue was empty. :D

Harald Hanche-Olsen

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May 10, 2007, 3:57:46 AM5/10/07

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+ Feizhou <fei...@graffiti.net>:

More to the point, one hopes the queue contained no unprocessed
messages when the qmail installation was upgraded.

I did specify rmdir, which would fail if there were any.

- Harald

Feizhou

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May 10, 2007, 4:06:26 AM5/10/07

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Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Feizhou <fei...@graffiti.net>:
>
> | > seems as you were right ;)
> | > rm'ing the both dirs did the trick.
> | >
> |
> | I hope the queue was empty. :D
>
> More to the point, one hopes the queue contained no unprocessed
> messages when the qmail installation was upgraded.

:)

>
> I did specify rmdir, which would fail if there were any.

You know how hard instructions are to follow when someone does not
understand the reasoning behind them.