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

[Siju George]

Thankyou Wojcieh

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> 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.