On 01/09/04 Collins Richey wrote: > I've been using sylpheed-claws-0.9.8 for some time, but something went > astray bwetween shutdown last night and reboot this morning. > > sylpheed-claws simply would not run. I tried re-emerging and then > emerging the next older version with the same results. > > Then I emerged 'strace' and discovered that sylpheed-claws was > attempting to open a unix socket using directory /tmpS/sylpheed-1000 > !!!. I had to created this directory in order to run!!! > > I found no entries in bugzilla. > > Never before have I seen this. Does anyone have a clue what is going > on?
You'll probably get better answers off the sylpheed-claws-user list (several of the devs are reading/posting there). I haven't seen such a behavior with SC and I'm hard at finding any reasonable explanation (and I'm not in the mood to check the sourcecode right now ;). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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