On 3/7/2014 11:18 PM, Rodolfo González González wrote: > On 07/03/14 22:53, Noel Jones wrote: >> On 3/7/2014 8:22 PM, Rodolfo González González wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> a customer is reporting that some of their users tried to send >>> e-mail messages using my postfix 2.9.6 server (will be updating >>> soon) but messages were not sent. I don't have snapshots of their >>> screens nor error messages displayed by their clients yet, but >>> checking the logs I find several messages like this one: >>> >>> Mar 4 12:40:55 email postfix/smtpd[30013]: ***********: >>> client=unknown[a.b.c.d], sasl_method=LOGIN, >>> sasl_username=john.smith Mar 4 12:40:56 email >>> postfix/cleanup[30115]: ***********: >>> message-id=<*********.***%john.sm...@example.com> Mar 4 12:40:56 >>> email postfix/qmgr[21597]: ***********: >>> from=<john.sm...@example.com>, size=2509, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >>> Mar 4 12:59:57 email postfix/smtp[17624]: warning: open active >>> ***********: No such file or directory >>> >>> It looks like the queued message is being lost, or it's never >>> written to disk, but I have no clue. Any hint is appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> >> >> >> Your filesystem is broken. Shut down the computer and run fsck >> repeatedly until it stops finding errors. > > > Thanks. The filesystem where the queue is, right? One detail I > forgot to > mention, this is an ext4 filesystem on a RAID-10 sitting on EBS volumes > at Amazon Web Services. The instance is EBS-optimized, and I have > IOPS-enabled volumes. There are no other messages in dmesg nor syslog > regarding this problem. Could it be related to EBS?
I have no idea if that's related or not. I do know that the filesystem reports to postfix that a queue file has been written and then the file isn't there. If it were a local disk, that would be a clear sign of filesystem corruption. I'm not familiar enough with Amazon's services to tell if that's the problem. Maybe the options you've chosen cause the filesystem to report operations are completed before they really are. Postfix cannot use a filesystem that lies. -- Noel Jones
