fatal qmgr error Bad file descripto

[wowmom]

having trouble with postfix on Mac OS X Server 10.3.7.
mail delivery stops with this error:

[QUOTE]Dec 26 18:44:26 listserv postfix/qmgr[20251]: fatal: qmgr_active_feed: B3A1D1BD52FF: rename from incoming to active: Bad file descriptor
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the bad files are always located in one of three incoming directories, incoming/0, incoming/B, incoming/3.
messages that are already in the active queue continue to be processessed until it is empty, however, because of the fatal error above, no more messages can be moved to the active queue and mail delivery stops.
my procedure for dealing with this problem initially was to run ‘postsuper -d B3A1D1BD52FF’ for each file that reported this error. I discovered that the bad files were the first file in its associated directory and that all the files currently in that directory were also Bad. this made life a little easier as i could pipe an ‘ls’ of that directory into postsuper -d. after starting postfix again, mail would churn out until the next Bad file was detected.
Postfix does not seem able to recover from this error. Here is a typical series of error messages:

[QUOTE]
Dec 26 18:23:08 listserv postfix/qmgr[19783]: fatal: qmgr_active_feed: BAD561BD525D: rename from incoming to active: Bad file descriptor
Dec 26 18:23:09 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 19783 exit status 1
Dec 26 18:23:09 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup — throttling
Dec 26 18:24:10 listserv postfix/qmgr[19789]: fatal: qmgr_active_feed: BAD561BD525D: rename from incoming to active: Bad file descriptor
Dec 26 18:24:11 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 19789 exit status 1
Dec 26 18:24:11 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup — throttling
Dec 26 18:25:11 listserv postfix/qmgr[19795]: fatal: qmgr_active_feed: BAD561BD525D: rename from incoming to active: Bad file descriptor
Dec 26 18:25:12 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 19795 exit status 1
Dec 26 18:25:12 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup — throttling
Dec 26 18:26:12 listserv postfix/qmgr[19828]: fatal: qmgr_active_feed: BAD561BD525D: rename from incoming to active: Bad file descriptor
Dec 26 18:26:13 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 19828 exit status 1
Dec 26 18:26:13 listserv postfix/master[19575]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup — throttling
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is anyone else having this problem?

thanks,

barton

[wowmom]

you may actually be correct. the disk i so damaged that DiskWarrior and Disk First Aid can’t even fix it. we’re going to nuke and reinstall the OS.

thanks,

barton

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