Hi. I tried to migrate ~/.spamassassin to a new system but that failed. I had to remove auto_whitelist and bayes_*.
Then I retrained the bayesian learner with sa-learn --ham and --spam and now I get: bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1085 After googling some on the topic I tried: sa-learn -D --progress --force-expire --sync [25395] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [25395] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [25395] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 .... [25395] dbg: replacetags: replacing tags [25395] dbg: replacetags: done replacing tags [25395] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes_toks [25395] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes_seen [25395] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3 [25395] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 1170595460 [25395] dbg: config: score set 3 chosen. [25395] dbg: learn: initializing learner [25395] dbg: bayes: bayes journal sync starting [25395] dbg: bayes: bayes journal sync completed [25395] dbg: bayes: expiry starting [25395] dbg: locker: safe_lock: created /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex [25395] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on /home/rr/.spamassassin/bay es with 300 timeout [25395] dbg: locker: safe_lock: link to /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex: link ok [25395] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes_toks [25395] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes_seen [25395] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3 [25395] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex [25395] dbg: bayes: expiry check keep size, 0.75 * max: 112500 [25395] dbg: bayes: token count: 308372, final goal reduction size: 195872 [25395] dbg: bayes: first pass? current: 1170665526, Last: 0, atime: 0, count: 0 , newdelta: 0, ratio: 0, period: 43200 [25395] dbg: bayes: can't use estimation method for expiry, unexpected result, c alculating optimal atime delta (first pass) [25395] dbg: bayes: expiry max exponent: 9 [25395] dbg: bayes: atime token reduction [25395] dbg: bayes: ======== =============== [25395] dbg: bayes: 43200 307099 [25395] dbg: bayes: 86400 305715 [25395] dbg: bayes: 172800 302158 [25395] dbg: bayes: 345600 292135 [25395] dbg: bayes: 691200 287405 [25395] dbg: bayes: 1382400 275770 [25395] dbg: bayes: 2764800 257690 [25395] dbg: bayes: 5529600 226575 [25395] dbg: bayes: 11059200 171214 [25395] dbg: bayes: 22118400 110089 [25395] dbg: bayes: first pass decided on 11059200 for atime delta [25395] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex [25395] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh /home/rr/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex locker message repeating endlessly.. this is on linux debian/sarge.