Hi! The problem seems to occur during mail index processing. Can you try deleting all dovecot.index* files under this user's maildir. There might be some more under various folders.
Aki On 03.01.2018 08:51, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: > The EC2 instance that I run Dovecot on (personal mail server) was > forcibly "retired" yesterday, and as a result I ended up rebuilding > from backups. In the process I switched from Ubuntu Precise to Ubuntu > Xenial (12.04 to 16.04), and this in turn caused me to upgrade Dovecot > from 2.0.19 to 2.0.22. Now, although accessing mail seems to work OK > using my various clients, I am seeing these errors in my logs: > > Jan 3 05:56:58 -- dovecot: imap(owen): Panic: file > mail-index-sync-keywords.c: line 227 (keywords_update_records): > assertion failed: (data_offset >= sizeof(struct mail_index_record)) > Jan 3 05:56:58 -- dovecot: imap(owen): Error: Raw backtrace: > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x7aee2) [0x7fe9c08dbee2] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x7afcd) [0x7fe9c08dbfcd] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7fe9c0880a61] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_keywords+0x828) > [0x7fe9c0c1fdd8] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0xef) > [0x7fe9c0c2079f] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x238) > [0x7fe9c0c21758] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x71) > [0x7fe9c0c18de1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xd28fd) > [0x7fe9c0c2e8fd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xd2f03) > [0x7fe9c0c2ef03] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x78) > [0x7fe9c0c2efe8] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x92) > [0x7fe9c0c08042] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5e8d2) > [0x7fe9c0bba8d2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5e9b8) > [0x7fe9c0bba9b8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x37b86) > [0x7fe9c0b93b86] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_open+0x20) > [0x7fe9c0b93d00] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_get_status+0x20) > [0x7fe9c0c073b0] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_get_status+0x37) > [0x7fe9c0b940e7] -> dovecot/imap(imap_status_get+0x77) > [0x55d3b4c3f977] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_status+0x1a9) [0x55d3b4c32969] -> > dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x9c) [0x55d3b4c3806c] -> > dovecot/imap(+0x193e2) [0x55d3b4c363e2] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1946c) > [0x55d3b4c3646c] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x165) > [0x55d3b4c36825] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x82) [0x55d3b4c36db2] > -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x4c) > [0x7fe9c08efc6c] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x101) > [0x7fe9c08f1101] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x25) > [0x7fe9c08efcf5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) > [0x7fe9c08efe98] > Jan 3 05:56:59 -- dovecot: imap(owen): Fatal: master: service(imap): > child 18289 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) > > I have deleted the dovecot.* files in the Maildir for all users (did > this while Dovecot was stopped, then started it again), but the errors > persist. They are especially frequent for one particular user. I can't > figure out where the core file is, it doesn't seem to be in my home or > in /var/run/dovecot > > Here's my dovecot -n output: > > # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904) > # OS: Linux 4.4.0-1043-aws x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > namespace inbox { > inbox = yes > location = > mailbox Drafts { > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Junk { > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Sent { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Messages" { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox Trash { > special_use = \Trash > } > prefix = > } > passdb { > driver = pam > } > protocols = " imap" > service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0660 > user = postfix > } > } > ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/cert.pem > ssl_key = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/privkey.pem > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > > Thanks in advance for any support you can offer!