On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 09:37 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is > > > > NULL before it's set. > > > > The overwriting error message was: Could not lock '/var/mail/<user>' > > > > > > And that is the root of all your problems. > > > > > > Check the ownership and permissions on the /var/mail/<user> file - it > > > should be owned by <user>. group should be "mail", and permissions > > > should be -rw-rw---- (i.e. rw by user and group, no world permissions). > > > > They are: > > -rw-rw---- 1 <user> mail 95684923 Oct 31 07:02 /var/mail/<user> > > > > and ls -ld /var/mail shows: > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 31 07:21 /var/mail/ > > > > and <user> is in the group mail. > > OK. But the bottom line is that Evolution can't get a lock on your mail > spool file - if it can't get a lock, then it can't do anything with it. > If the permissions on the file are correct, then there must be some > other process holding a lock on it. You need to find out which process > that is and why it is holding a lock. > > To save you asking, use the lslk utility to list the current locks on > files. If you can't find lslk (it's an old and unmaintained utility), > look in /proc/locks - the information in there is not user friendly, but > it contains lines such as: > > 1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 4953 08:11:17703846 1073741824 1073742335 > ^ ^ > PID inode number > > So you need to find the inode number of your mail spool file and see if > it's listed.
Processes having locks are: <user> 32629 2.8 10.6 536428 165880 ? Sl 09:12 2:36 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin <user> 1978 0.0 0.0 2128 12 ? Ss Oct10 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd daemon 1574 0.0 0.0 1960 304 ? Ss Oct10 0:00 /sbin/portmap and a non-existing process with PID 2105: 7: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 2105 00:0e:7109 0 EOF What does this mean?? None of them are listing the inode number I have for /var/mail/<user> ls -li /var/mail/<user> 15811 -rw-rw---- 1 <user> mail 95736997 Oct 31 10:02 /var/mail/<user> _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
