On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jorge Almeida wrote: >Hi, >I have problems accessing a maildir with pine: > possible crash detected. waiting for mailbox lock > gentoo/bincimap-scan-lock. >It happens only with this particular maildir. I can access the others. >After shutting down pine: > 2004-12-14 22:25:16.415292500 2518 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] <jorge> > authentication failed: server died by signal 6 > 2004-12-14 22:25:17.417885500 2518 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] shutting down > - read:162 bytes, wrote:525 bytes. >Google shows some messages related with this kind of error message, but no >solution. >My maildirs are on a reiserfs partition. OS is gentoo linux, kernel >2.6.8 (gentoo-dev-sources). Bincimap 1.2.10. >The mail is kept on my workstation, and the server only allows access >from 127.0.0.1. No NFS. >Any idea?
The log message is a bit too direct on the cause of the problem. What happens is that one IMAP client can't grab the mailbox lock after waiting for two seconds. If you want, you could edit maildir-scan.cc at the top, and increase this polling timeout a bit to see if the error returns. If it's a crash, you should be able to find a core file in the mail depository. If cores are switched off, setting "ulimit -c unlimited" in the run files may be helpful. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
