[BlueOnyx:03668] Re: Unable to create new sites

[Christoph Schneeberger]

Larry Smith wrote:
> On Thu February 25 2010 06:02, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:
>   
>> Steve Howes wrote:
>>     
>>> On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:06, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:
>>>       
>>>> "Unable to create the system email alias, sys at www.abcdefgh.ch, for
>>>> this
>>>> site. Make sure no user on the system is using the alias and try
>>>> again."
>>>>
>>>> in /var/log/messages I get:
>>>>
>>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
>>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE succeeded
>>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
>>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE  ProtectedEmailAlias
>>>> fqdn
>>>> = "www.abcdefgh.ch" site = site2 build_maps = 0 action = sys alias =
>>>> sys
>>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
>>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE ProtectedEmailAlias
>>>> failed (-7)
>>>>         
>>> Eeek, had that on a Cobalt once. Was caused by an oid being used that
>>> wasn't in the index. Have you let the disk fill up / had any signs of
>>> disk corruption? It might be completely unrelated but its exactly the
>>> same errors...
>>>       
>> Not that I am aware of, no quota probs, no crash or such and no disk
>> full either, its a OpenVZ Container and until now it hadn't made any
>> problems.
>> Is there anything I can possibly do to further diagnose the problem ?
>> Any hints are welcome, thanks for taking the time.
>>
>>     
>
> Believe that part of the code is adding the username to the virtusertable.
> Try logging into the box and update the virtusertable manually and see
> if there are any issues:
>
> cd /etc/mail
> makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable
>
> If there are any errors there, fix them, then try again until it works,
> then try adding the site again.
>
>   

Thanks for the suggestion, but the virtusertable is healthy (updates 
without problems).
So far I think it fails before updating maps and I come to think there 
is one of this strange OID problems that were discussed here from time 
to time.


Cheers,
Christoph