begin Adrian von Bidder quotation:
> David - according to the bug info libberkeleydb-perl 0.26-3 is used,
> implying a berkeley-db 4.3 version. Nick - is this a stable system?
> This would mean 4.3.27.
Yes, I am running Debian Stable. I use cron-apt nightly and upgrade
within a few hours of each DSA.
> Given that I've not seen similar bug reports so far, and assuming that
> you (Nick) can't reliably reproduce the problem, I'm inclined to drop
> this bug as unreproducable. I agree that it's probably a db bug, but
> without being able to reproduce it, it's impossible to tell where
> exactly...
I can in fact reliably reproduce the problem on my own system. Postgrey
will *never* start up after a crash unless its DB files have been moved
out of the way. It may be that there are situations that allow it to
start up, but I have not encountered them yet.
> I'll ask the Debian libdb maintainers about this, perhaps they've seen
> such reports.
That seems like a good tactic. If the Postgrey software itself uses the
libdb recover routines, then it is more likely to be a fault in libdb.
For reference, the output of "dpkg -l '*libdb*'":
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un libdb-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2.
un libdb1-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libdb2 2.7.7.0-9 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
un libdb2-dev <none> (no description available)
un libdb2.6 <none> (no description available)
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
un libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii libdb4.3 4.3.27-2 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii libdb4.3-dev 4.3.27-2 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [developmen
un libdbi-perl <none> (no description available)
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