Re: sync_client problems

Eric Cunningham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Bron, but that doesn't seem to work for me, unless I'm missing 
something.

I ran reconstructs for this account on both my master and copy hosts:

[cyrus@imap1 ~]$ reconstruct -f -r user.scramer
user.scramer
user.scramer.Archive
user.scramer.Archives
user.scramer.Archives.2004
...
user.scramer.Trash.IS Networking and Operations
user.scramer.Trash.IS Security
user.scramer.Trash.IS Servers
user.scramer.Trash.IS Staff
user.scramer.Trash.IS Surveys
...


[cyrus@imap2 ~]$ reconstruct -f -r user.scramer
user.scramer
user.scramer.Archive
user.scramer.Archives
user.scramer.Archives.2004
...
user.scramer.Trash.IS Networking and Operations
user.scramer.Trash.IS Security
user.scramer.Trash.IS Servers
user.scramer.Trash.IS Staff
user.scramer.Trash.IS Surveys
...


I then restart the replication against the log-run file and it again 
fails on a folder that no longer exists in that account:

...
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: IOERROR: zero length response 
to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: IOERROR: zero length response 
to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: IOERROR: zero length response 
to UNMAILBOX (end of file reached)
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: folder_delete(): failed: 
user.scramer.Trash.IS Software Management 'Bad protocol'
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: Error in do_sync(): bailing 
out! Bad protocol
May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: Processing sync log file 
/var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Bad protocol


-Eric


On 05/11/2017 02:14 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Looks like you have a corrupted mailboxes database - if you run a reconstruct at each end then it should be fine.  Replication won't bail for an actually-doesn't-exist mailbox, but it can't fix broken mailboxes, that's what reconstruct is for.
> 
> Bron.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 May 2017, at 01:01, Eric Cunningham wrote:
>> Hi list, I'm running cyrus replication on cyrus 2.5.10.  It seems
>> whenever a folder is encountered in log-run that doesn't exist on the
>> client and/or the server, the replication process logs "Error in
>> do_sync(): bailing out! Bad protocol".  Sometimes, it dies completely,
>> other times it restarts at the beginning of the log-run file.  But when
>> it re-encounters the folder in question, the same failure occurs and the
>> problem continuously loops until some manual action is taken.  I have a
>> checker script that attempts to restart a stopped sync but I haven't
>> tried to code it to get past these types of folder errors.  In the
>> meantime, replication effectively stops and the replication log
>> continuously builds in size.  You might imagine my horror at discovering
>> yesterday that replication of my production server with 1200 accounts
>> had been failing for over 7 weeks unnoticed, generating 9.5 million
>> lines in the replication log files.  I had gotten out of the habit of
>> daily monitoring of replication as it had been running fine and I
>> eventually moved on to other things.  I'm trying to get replication to
>> run through the enormous backlog but am running into more similar folder
>> issues that cause the process to fail, I make manual fixes, and start
>> the process again.  In my experience with this, reconstruction of the
>> affected folders on the master host and copy host has no effect.
>>
>> Can this otherwise excellent feature be made more robust to work past
>> these folder issues?
>>
>> Here are a couple of examples I've observed thus far of how the process
>> is failing for me.
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> In this example, the subfolder "Fly America Foreign Travel" no longer
>> existed on the master host but did exist on the copy host.  To resolve
>> this, I had to manually delete that folder from the copy host.
>>
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: inefficient replication (8 >
>> 5) user.jtaft.PO.Fly America Foreign Travel
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: FULLMAILBOX received NO
>> response: IMAP_MAILBOX_NONEXISTENT No Such Mailbox
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: do_folders(): update failed:
>> user.jtaft.PO.Fly America Foreign Travel 'Mailbox does not exist'
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: IOERROR: Mailbox does not exist
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Error in do_sync(): bailing
>> out! Mailbox does not exist
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Processing sync log file
>> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Mailbox does not exist
>> May  9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Reprocessing sync log file
>> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> In this example, the subfolder "Sohn" did not exist on the master host
>> nor on the copy host.  To resolve, I had to edit log-run and completely
>> remove all entries for this "Sohn" subfolder.
>>
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
>> to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
>> to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
>> to UNMAILBOX (end of file reached)
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: folder_delete(): failed:
>> user.gg-chair.Trash.Sohn 'Bad protocol'
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: Error in do_sync(): bailing
>> out! Bad protocol
>> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: Processing sync log file
>> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Bad protocol
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> Often, errors are logged without "bailing out!" and replication
>> continues to run:
>>
>> May 10 10:45:00 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
>> May 10 10:45:01 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
>> May 10 10:45:24 imap1 sync_client[87438]: IOERROR: GUID mismatch
>> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/c/user/cdm-lit/Sent/148.
>> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: IOERROR: zero length response
>> to MAILBOX (end of file reached)
>> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: do_folders(): update failed:
>> user.cdm-lit.Sent 'Bad protocol'
>> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> Thank you, list!
>>
>> -Eric
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