fdm will only remove the lock file if it exits normally (success or a normal
error), it will not remove it on a fatal error (which means a bug) or on
SIGKILL, and it is never going to since I want to know about these cases and
fix them. Please send me the -vvvv log of a session (don't forget to remove
passwords and anything else sensitive) when it is interrupted and leaves behind
a lock file.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:50:00AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Package: fdm
> Version: 1.6-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> There seems to be a problem with the lock file in fdm.
>
> I currently have fdm configured to fetch emails fromi a pop3 server every
> 10 minutes, using a cron job.
>
> In .fdm.conf, I'm using the following to ensure that there's only one
> instance of fdm running.
>
> # Lock file path.
> set lock-file "${base}/lock"
>
>
> Since I run it on a laptop, which I frequently keep
> connecting/disconnecting and hibernating, at some point this gets
> triggered while fdm is running.
> I guess that is when sometime fdm is dying and is leaving a stale lock
> file.
> This then leads to no further fdm processes running because they
> see the lock file and assume that an fdm process is already running.
> Thus I end up with receiving no email messages until I realise that fdm
> has left a stale lock file. Once I manually remove it, every thing runs
> as normal.
>
> IMO fdm should handle such error conditions and remove the lock file
> when such circumstances trigger.
>
>
> Ritesh
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages fdm depends on:
> ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
> ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libpcre3 7.8-2+b1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular
> Expressi
> ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-16 SSL shared libraries
> ii libtdb1 1.1.3~git20090221-1 Trivial Database - shared library
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
>
> fdm recommends no packages.
>
> fdm suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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