PANIC: Invalid RFC822TextItem detected

Yesterday, after upgrading to 8.5 on our servers, two of them started crashing with the following error message:

PANIC: Invalid RFC822TextItem detected

Crashes seemed to occur once every 1-2 hours, although they seemed to have stopped now. Don’t know what will happen when the servers start to get loaded again when people start comming in the office in the next few hours.

See below for the stack trace from the nsd file:

Thread 31 (Thread 0xb0eb2b90 (LWP 3003)):

#0 0xb7f9d424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

#1 0xb5f159f1 in select () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

#2 0xb624d4cc in FRDoSleep ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#3 0xb624e6c0 in OSRunExternalScript ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#4 0xb624fcda in OSFaultCleanupExt ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#5 0xb624fdc4 in OSFaultCleanup ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#6 0xb621fe30 in fatal_error ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#7

#8 0xb7f9d424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

#9 0xb60d3460 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0

#10 0xb6269523 in Panic () from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#11 0xb6cf1dea in ItemValueToOrFrom ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#12 0xb6cf1eba in ODSItemValueToOrFrom ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#13 0xb6883c2b in WriteItems ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#14 0xb688643d in WriteNote ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#15 0xb686dce9 in NoteUpdateImpl ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#16 0xb6872830 in iNoteUpdate2 ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#17 0xb68d2ce6 in DispatchNoteUpdate ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#18 0xb68d3e42 in NSFNoteUpdateExtended3 ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#19 0xb68d4496 in NSFNoteUpdateExtendedFlags2 ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#20 0xb68d4567 in NSFNoteUpdateExtended ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#21 0xb6b1f51e in DbIMAPUpdateFolderInfo ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#22 0xb69e0430 in AddFolderOp ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#23 0xb69eaa44 in DbApplyFolderReplOps ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#24 0xb67c90a3 in FoldWrapApplyFolderReplOps ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#25 0xb67a9588 in iNSFApplyFolderReplOps ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#26 0xb679e70c in NSFApplyFolderReplOps ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#27 0x080cea68 in ServerSCRDestHandler ()

#28 0x0809de33 in DbServer ()

#29 0x080bfdac in WorkThreadTask ()

#30 0x0806fe78 in Scheduler ()

#31 0xb624567b in ThreadWrapper ()

from /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so

#32 0xb60cb4c0 in start_thread () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0

#33 0xb5f1d61e in clone () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

eax 0xfffffdfe -514

ecx 0x0 0

edx 0x0 0

ebx 0x0 0

esp 0xb0ead17c 0xb0ead17c

ebp 0xb0ead1d8 0xb0ead1d8

esi 0x0 0

edi 0xb0ead1cc -1326788148

eip 0xb7f9d424 0xb7f9d424 <__kernel_vsyscall+16>

eflags 0x246 [ PF ZF IF ]

cs 0x73 115

ss 0x7b 123

ds 0x7b 123

es 0x7b 123

fs 0x0 0

gs 0x33 51

Subject: Did you ever find a solution for this

I am seeing the same thing with the server going down every few hours, sometimes even quicker. I have seen reference to the IBM note about DbApplyFolderReplOps causing a crash, but am not sure if this is the root of my problem.

Subject: Not fixed

I applied the 8.5 IF2 patch (the server release now shows 8.5HF109) and it seems to offer some relieve. But yesterday i got the same crash message (PANIC: Invalid RFC822TextItem detected) again.