sm-mta[686]: s49IO1N8013722: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open ./dfs49IO1N8013722: No such file or directory

[Wojciech Puchar]

some files in /var/spool/mqueue are missing, and some are corrupted.


On Fri, 16 May 2014, Siju George wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the cause of the following errors?
>
> May 12 14:41:49 dfly-bkpsrv2 sm-mta[686]: s49IO1N8013722:
> SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open ./dfs49IO1N8013722: No such file or
> directory

missing file

>
> May 12 14:41:50 dfly-bkpsrv2 sm-mta[686]: s49IO1Xu013721:
> SYSERR(root): readqf: ./qfs49IO1Xu013721: line 0: bad line ""

this line suggest empty file.

As every write to /var/spool/mqueue is fsync'ed by sendmail it suggest 
hardware problem like hard drive not executed flush command and then power 
failure, or maybe hardware RAID with battery backed memory with battery 
backup failed.

there may be other reasons.