After upgrading from 0.95.1 to 1.2, I'm seeing a lot of "Lock count exceeded, remove lock for <folder>?" errors. This happens most consistantly with my postponed messages folder, but I've been able to reproduce it with other folders as well. What typically happens is: while at the index for my system mailbox, I'll begin to compose a message, then exit my editor and 'P'ostpone the message. Mutt displays 'Message postponed', there's a five second pause (presumably mutt waiting for a lock file to clear), then the index is displayed with the message: "Lock count exceeded, remove lock for /nis.home/hart/Mail/postponed? ([y]/n):" on the status line. At this point, postponed.lock exists in my ~/Mail directory with permissions 000, length zero, owned by my userid with a group id of 'mail'. If it matters, I tend to keep the permissions of my ~/Mail directory 700, but I've tried changing them to 770 (with group mail), and even 777 - nothing seems to make any difference. I took a quick pass through the mutt-users archive and didn't see anything that looked quite like this problem. Has anyone run into something like this? My version of mutt is: % mutt -v Mutt 1.2i (2000-05-09) Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: HP-UX B.10.20 [using slang 10202] Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" SHAREDIR="/opt/mutt/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/opt/mutt/etc" -ISPELL To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility. ..and the binaries are installed with the following permissions: r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 879659 May 10 16:59 mutt* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 12 May 11 15:33 mutt.dotlock@ -> mutt_dotlock -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin mail 32868 May 10 16:59 mutt_dotlock* The permissions on /var/mail (where my sytem mailbox resides) are: drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 1024 Jun 21 10:28 /var/mail/ /var/mail is stored on a local filesystem (not NFS). My home directory (and ~/Mail) are local as well, but accessed via NIS. The problem does not occur if I revert back to mutt 0.95.1. Any ideas? -- Wesley Hart
