fetchmail:cannot create lock file

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

I am using debian and after upgrading to testing I am having
problem with fetchmail. My mail is on another server and I have
used fetchmail to get the mail successfully before. I am using
mutt. I was foooling around with .muttrc to get IMAP to work.
I don't know whether this has any connection with the fetchmail
failure. I am unable to see any messages in any log file. 

I tried to reinstall fetchmail using apt-get, but it wanted to 
remove several packages  and warned me about it, so I did not
reinstall.

Any suggestions about rectifying this problem?

Thanks.

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Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
s-canagaratna@onu.edu