> > > > 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. > >
> > 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> > OK. I've done some more Googling on your behalf - there was a Debian/Ubuntu packaging bug that might affect you - basically make sure that /usr/lib/evolution/camel-lock-helper-1.2 is SGID mail. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
