Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:17:48AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-12 15:46:03 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > Which version of mutt should I try to see if I can > > reporduce this? I've noticed there have been > > official-looking patches about and wanna see if I can > > get this to happen again. > > I think we have already been reproducing what you > describe, and there are some patches already. So, with Yup. Saw the thread. > some luck, there'll be a sane 1.2.1 during this week. Grooovy. > Anyway, thanks for your help. No worries. Sorry about not providing more details but RL thwacked me during the week. :/ -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On 2000-06-12 15:46:03 +1000, CaT wrote: > Which version of mutt should I try to see if I can > reporduce this? I've noticed there have been > official-looking patches about and wanna see if I can > get this to happen again. I think we have already been reproducing what you describe, and there are some patches already. So, with some luck, there'll be a sane 1.2.1 during this week. Anyway, thanks for your help. -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/
Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:53:51PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > > > Before attempt: > > > > > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > > > > > After attempt: > > > > > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- > > > > What precisely did happen between these two versions of > > the mail folder? Please be a little bit more precise. ;-) > > Hehe. I'll try tomorrow with a step by step list of what I did > and what happened (well as close to this as I can get :). ATM > I'm dead tired. Bah. Didn't find the time last week. Sorry. 8( Which version of mutt should I try to see if I can reporduce this? I've noticed there have been official-looking patches about and wanna see if I can get this to happen again. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > Before attempt: > > > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > > > After attempt: > > > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- > > What precisely did happen between these two versions of > the mail folder? Please be a little bit more precise. ;-) Hehe. I'll try tomorrow with a step by step list of what I did and what happened (well as close to this as I can get :). ATM I'm dead tired. > > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I > > selected two msgs for deletion as well as read one > > document. It would not let me quit. > > This almost sounds like reasonable behaviour, as it sounds > like mutt had detected that it couldn't commit the changes > to the mail folder. Yup. But something wrong happened to it's internal picture of the mailbox I think. > Were there any messages about preserved temporary files? Nope. it counted up as it was parsing the maiblox during the save and then whammo, no status message at the bottom and the quit failed. I THINK though that something akin to a status message MAY have flashed instantaneously before my eyes though. > When a folder can't be written back, a temporary file > containing the folder which should have been written > should be left in $TMPDIR. None was left in /tmp and $TMPDIR is not set on my system. I just size sorted the contents and there was nothing there. the youngest tmp file left by mutt was from May 25 and is about 9k in size. It's contents is weird though: Status: O Content-Length: 118 Lines: 4 Status: O Content-Length: 196 Lines: 15 Status: O Content-Length: 1668 Lines: 47 Status: O Content-Length: 149886 Lines: 3372 Status: O Content-Length: 0 Lines: 0 Status: O Content-Length: 0 Lines: 0 Status: O Content-Length: 0 Lines: 0 etc... The file name is: /tmp/mutt.damien-nessie-263 -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > Before attempt: > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > After attempt: > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- What precisely did happen between these two versions of the mail folder? Please be a little bit more precise. ;-) > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I > selected two msgs for deletion as well as read one > document. It would not let me quit. This almost sounds like reasonable behaviour, as it sounds like mutt had detected that it couldn't commit the changes to the mail folder. Were there any messages about preserved temporary files? When a folder can't be written back, a temporary file containing the folder which should have been written should be left in $TMPDIR. -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/
Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
Hi CaT! On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, CaT wrote: > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I selected two msgs for > deletion as well as read one document. It would not let me quit. I > trie dit multiple times. I freed up space on /var/spool/mail so that it > has 160meg free and it still would not let me quit. I freed up space > on /tmp so that it has 92meg free and it let me quit. > > 8( Would you run into a quota problem if you set tmpdir $HOME/tmp? That would get around the issue of somebody else filling up /tmp. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:29:53PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 04 Jun 2000: > > Ok.. NOW I'm using 1.2. Grr. Compiled 1.2, went to play > > with my bros on their nintendo, came back and forgot I > > didn't install :) > > And the result of trying to re-create the problem with 1.2 is ..? Before attempt: -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- After attempt: ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I selected two msgs for deletion as well as read one document. It would not let me quit. I trie dit multiple times. I freed up space on /var/spool/mail so that it has 160meg free and it still would not let me quit. I freed up space on /tmp so that it has 92meg free and it let me quit. 8( -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
