Hi,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:44:47PM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I see the following with strace:
> >
> > /home/<user>/.local/share/evolution/mail/spool/: (No such file or directory)
> > /home/<user>/.local/share/evolution/mail/smtp/<user@isp>:465 (No such file
> > or directory)
> > stat64("/var/mail/<user>" etc = 0
> > open("/var/mail/<user>", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 33
> >
> > Several times: (varying 6 char extension to <user>.
> > stat64("/var/mail/<user>", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0660, st_size=95669778, ...}) = > > 0
> > open("/var/mail/<user>RKL7MW", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) =
> > -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> >
> > (evolution:16230): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous
> > GError or uninitialized memor
> > y.
> > 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.
AFAICT, camel-lock-helper won't work if you run it under strace, likely
because the setgid privs are being stripped and then it does not have
the permissions to create a lockfile in /var/mail (it just confused my
for a while when I tried to reproduce the problem).
So the above is probably bogus.
Michael
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