Re: Bug#39030: bugs.debian.org: heavy problems with potato: loosing mail!
reassign 39030 mutt
severity grave
thanks
This looks like it may well be the same bug as #31441: dear Thomas,
please could you check if it might be? Have a look at:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/31/31441.html and let us know.
It seems from there that a 2.2.x kernel could well help you.
To the mutt maintainer: is there anything you can do to fix or
alleviate this?
Julian
> Package: bugs.debian.org
> Version: 19990606
> Severity: critical
>
> we have lost 2 mail files in the past 4 days.
>
> the loss is *very* painful.
>
> MUA: mutt
> ii mutt 0.95.4-1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG,
>
> this mutt version is from early april 1999. we use it every day without
> problems. and we *do know* what we are doing :)
>
>
> mail reaches the system as follows:
>
> x-berg-$ grep mail /etc/exports
> /exports/mail motte(rw,no_root_squash)
> x-berg-$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 9 19:17 /var/spool/mail -> /exports/mail
> x-berg-$
>
> motte-$ grep mail /etc/fstab
> x-berg:/exports/mail /var/spool/mail nfs rw,bg,noexec,nodev,nosuid,intr 0
> 1
> motte-$
>
>
> this configuration exists without any changes since abt. 2 years.
> mail is read with mutt only, for abt. 1 year experience.
>
> x-berg is an up2date potato (upgraded with apt-get dist-upgrade every
> few days).
> motte's configuration and system/programs (old slackware) has not changed
> for abt. 3 years.
>
> within this time, we never had problems that resulted in a complete
> loss of our mail.
>
>
> the mail is lost in the way, that the mail-file was not removed,
> but only contains the few new messages recently being delivered.
> i think the mail-file gets lost while the delivery of the mail.
>
> i assume a file locking problem (local libs used by mutt,nfsd/mountd, etc),
> or that an fopen(.., a, ..) maps to fopen(.., w, ..) due to problem
> in libc-2.1.1.so (/lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.1.so).
>
>
> nevertheless, it may be worth to recompile mutt against the current
> version of libc-2.1.1 for being shure it works well.
>
>
> regards,
>
> - thomas osterried <thomas@x-berg.in-berlin.de>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux x-berg 2.0.36 #8 Son Mdr 14 21:41:51 MET 1999 i586 unknown
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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