On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:00:12AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote: > > Fred, > > > > there are number of reasons syncing mailbox state may fail - exactly > > as you figured out! Does anything get printed when you run balsa in > > a terminal window? > > yes there is, though it wasn't obviously meaningful to me. I'll try again > later on today and see if I can find something there, and will post > some of it to the list for you to see.
here's what appears in the terminal window where balsa was started: $ balsa (balsa:19394): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files Network is available (Thu 14 Jan 2016 05:52:30 PM EST) openjdk version "1.8.0_65" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode) [fredex@fcshome Desktop]$ the Gtk warning pops up right away when it is started. the openjdk messages appear when the first mailbox is opened. I also looked in /var/log/messages and see nothing suspicious there, as well as some of the other files there just in case messages weren't being logged where I expected. I triggered the failure to sync message several times but nothing showed up here beyond the two groups mentioned above. I should note that I am using the MATE desktop. However, the system was originally installed as a Gnome system, and I added MATE (from epel) after the fact, so all the gnome bits should actually be there (but not, apparently, actually running). > > The hardcore was is to run strace -olog -ff /path/to/balsa and grep > > for failed accesses to the mailbox - but this is bit more > > demanding... > > if nothing else works... I guess it's time to try strace, since the above steps don't seem to reveal anything telling. I'll post that separately, later on. > > > > > Pawel > > > > Den 14.01.2016 02:50:59 skrev Fred Smith: > > >On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jack wrote: > > >> On 2016.01.13 19:20, Fred Smith wrote: > > >> >Hi all! > > >> > > > >> >I've just compiled Balsa 2.5.2, which went without significant > > >> >issue. but when I open my main mailbox, clicking on some messages > > >> >elicits a warning box pop up saying "Failed to sync mailbox xxx". > > >> > > > >> >I see that message could originate in any of a bazillion (more or > > >> >less) places in the program, but haven't yet figured out which > > >> >one, nor know what it actually is trying to tell me. what problem > > >> >causes this? > > >> > > > >> >anyone know a magic incantation to solve it? > > >> > > >> When you say your main mailbox, do you mean inbox? What type of > > >> mailbox is it? mbox, maildir, MH, ...? Are you having trouble just > > >> opening the local mailbox, or actually trying to sync with a remote > > >> server? POP3 or IMAP? You can also start balsa from the command > > >> line using -d (debug POP) or -D (debug IMAP) to get more information > > >> on what might be going wrong with syncing. > > > > > >sorry for the lack of details. > > > > > >I run a mail server on my personal Linux box, at home, with my own > > >domain. Sendmail delivers to procmail which does the final delivery > > >to mbox mail folders. > > > > > >in my home directory is a subdir named "Mail" that contains a symlink > > >to /var/spool/mail/fredex, so that mutt (what I have always used) > > >accesses all my mail folders in ~/fredex/Mail. > > > > > >So, I can't prove the message I mention doesn't happen in other > > >mailboxes, > > >but I've seen it in the "fredex" mailbox. usually if there's an unread > > >mail, I click on it and get that message. > > > > > >ls -l /home/fredex/Mail/fredex /var/spool/mail/fredex > > >lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fredex fredex 22 Feb 24 2013 > > >/home/fredex/Mail/fredex -> /var/spool/mail/fredex > > >-rw-rw----. 1 fredex fredex 2309646535 Jan 13 20:43 > > >/var/spool/mail/fredex > > > > > >I don't see any reason why -rw-rw---- isn't adequate, as long as the > > >mailbox is owned by me, which it is. Does Balsa need more relaxed > > >permissions than that? > > > > > >This is a new installation of Centos-7. Previously I was using > > >Centos-6 > > >and it had Balsa 2.4.14. In looking at the backup of that prior > > >system, > > >I see that /var/spool/mail/fredex looks like this: > > > > > >-rw-r-----. 1 root root 2300888945 Dec 2 14:53 fredex > > > > > >is Balsa complaining because the permissions are TOO permissive? > > > <snip useless stuff> -- ---- Fred Smith -- [email protected] ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
