Hi. Sorry for the inconvenience.
From: Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug#318020: xemacs21-basesupport: vm corrupts my complete mail
directory
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:52:14 +0200
> Package: xemacs21-basesupport
> Version: 2005.03.07-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes serious data loss
>
> Hi, there is few I can report. I just installed xemacs21-gnome-mule,
> typed M-x vm RET, then CPU load went up to 100%. When I looked what was
> happening to my mail I got the creeps: While eating all CPU time,
> XEmacs/VM would truncate each mbox file it could get hold of to zero
> bytes.
>
> Fortunately I had a backup of this morning. However, when after 20
> minutes or so I finally killed XEmacs, I had lost one day's mail. This
> should not happen, by any means..
>
> There seem to be no backups created by VM around anywhere, as far as I
> see.
>
> A mailer couldn't behave worse than VM just did. You should probably
> remove it from the package.
First of all, I can't reproduce this problem in my box, the
latest sid environment. Please tell me the followings;
1. How about using the latest xemacs21-basesupport? The latest
one in sid is 2005.05.05-1. Between two versions, there were some
fixes at upstream.
(Please make backups of your mail before testing again, or test
at another machine, if any.)
2. What version of xemacs21 do you use? If you use 21.4.16-1,
please update soon. This version is withdrawn by upstream due to
the critical problem. This causes infinite loop. Maybe your
problem is this.
Thanks.
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