Hi Mike Did you migrate from request tracker (rt3) to otrs? Is it possible, that some fragments (e.g. pop3 jobs) were sleeping in the deep of your machine and now magically awoke? regards, Bruno -----Original Message----- From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dent Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:27 PM To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org Subject: [otrs] Recently getting these errors fro OTRS :- Malformed UTF-8character (unexpected ...... Hi, 3 days ago i noticed i started getting messages from cron daemon on my OTRS box of the form:- Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 655, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 655, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 669, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 670, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 671, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 672, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 674, <PRODUCT> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in substitution (s///) at /opt/otrs/Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm line 675, etc etc Since this time I am receiving no notifications from OTRS and no tickets are being created. I checked /var/log/messages and noticed at the time I started getting these reports from cron, the log was showing:- May 19 19:30:05 rt3 OTRS-PM3-30[14784]: [Notice][Kernel::System::PID::PIDCreate] Can't create PID PostMasterPOP3, because it's already running (rt3.blah.local/14612) ! And every so often I get:- May 20 10:30:04 rt3 OTRS-PM3-30[30434]: [Notice][Kernel::System::PID::PIDCreate] Removed PID (PostMasterPOP3/rt3.blah.local/29415, because 1 hour old! May 20 10:40:05 rt3 OTRS-PM3-30[30620]: [Notice][Kernel::System::PID::PIDCreate] Can't create PID PostMasterPOP3, because it's already running (rt3.blah.local/30434) I'm running otrs 2.1.7 Any pointers as what might have gone wrong? Thanks Mike