Bug#1006603: evolution: Can't lock mbox file: The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””
Hi, Probably the same as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004484 which points to the possible problem source and also a temporary solution. Regards, Patrice On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:04:33 +0100 Adrian Immanuel Kiess wrote: > Package: evolution > Version: 3.43.2-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > Upgrading Evolution some months ago > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > apt -u dist-upgrade > * What was the outcome of this action? > Evolution is unable to lock the mbox file in /var/mail/adrian and reports > error > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Evolution being able to read and lock mbox mail file in /var/mail > > in the recent Evolution mail reader on Debian/testing, I can't read my local > mails stored in /var/mail/adrian. > > The error Evolution spits out is this: > > Failed to refresh folder “adr...@lan.dac : INBOX”. > > The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””. > > Here is the directory listing of /var/mail on my system: > > root@g6 /var/mail # ls -lah > total 1,4M > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4,0K 28 févr. 07:43 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4,0K 18 oct. 11:49 ../ > -rw-rw 1 adrian mail 0 28 févr. 07:44 adrian > > Reading the mail with Sylpheed works fine. > > I searched the Internet with Google, but could not find a solution. > > I would be very gladful for help or fix. > > Sincerely, > > Adrian Kiess > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages evolution depends on:
Bug#1006603: evolution: Can't lock mbox file: The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””
Package: evolution Version: 3.43.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Upgrading Evolution some months ago * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? apt -u dist-upgrade * What was the outcome of this action? Evolution is unable to lock the mbox file in /var/mail/adrian and reports error * What outcome did you expect instead? Evolution being able to read and lock mbox mail file in /var/mail in the recent Evolution mail reader on Debian/testing, I can't read my local mails stored in /var/mail/adrian. The error Evolution spits out is this: Failed to refresh folder “adr...@lan.dac : INBOX”. The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””. Here is the directory listing of /var/mail on my system: root@g6 /var/mail # ls -lah total 1,4M drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4,0K 28 févr. 07:43 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4,0K 18 oct. 11:49 ../ -rw-rw 1 adrian mail0 28 févr. 07:44 adrian Reading the mail with Sylpheed works fine. I searched the Internet with Google, but could not find a solution. I would be very gladful for help or fix. Sincerely, Adrian Kiess -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages evolution depends on: ii dbus 1.12.22-1 ii evolution-common 3.43.2-2 ii evolution-data-server 3.43.2-1 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libcamel-1.2-633.43.2-1 ii libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 1.8.4-4+b1 ii libecal-2.0-1 3.43.2-1 ii libedataserver-1.2-26 3.43.2-1 ii libevolution 3.43.2-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.31-1 ii libical3 3.0.14-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.9-3 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.74.2-3 ii libxml22.9.12+dfsg-6 ii psmisc 23.4-2 Versions of packages evolution recommends: ii evolution-plugin-bogofilter 3.43.2-2 ii evolution-plugin-pstimport 3.43.2-2 ii evolution-plugins3.43.2-2 ii yelp 42~beta-2 Versions of packages evolution suggests: pn evolution-ews ii evolution-plugins-experimental 3.43.2-2 ii gnupg 2.2.27-3 pn network-manager -- debconf information: evolution/kill_processes: evolution/needs_shutdown:
