Confirmed. After installing fam, the problem is solved: # apt-get install fam libfam0
So it was probably related to the recent upgrade of libgamin0 0.1.10-4. Thanks again, Alberto. PS: To those applying this workaround. Do not install only libfam0, otherwise you will experience the problem Racke mentioned before: * OK [ALERT] Filesystem notification initialization error -- contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library) libfam0 requires fam daemon to do the real file monitoring work. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <ra...@linuxia.de>wrote: > On 04/18/2012 01:25 PM, Jesse Molina wrote: > >> >> Here an FYI of a problem I had recently. I doubt this is the same issue, >> but I'll write it up anyway for posterity. >> >> I had a similar issue about a week ago when I updated some courier >> related packages. >> >> The issue turned out to be some kind of problem with gamin. I switched >> from using gamin to fam and the problem went away. Gamin and fam are used >> in relation to the Enhanced IDLE functionality in Courier IMAP. >> >> Ironically, I was using gamin because I had issues with fam a couple of >> years ago, switched, and had been happy since then. Maybe in a few years >> I'll switch back to gamin the next time fam gives me trouble. >> >> The only indication of a problem was that occasionally, in my mail.err >> file, I would see something like; >> >> Apr 8 09:03:41 myhostname imapd-ssl: FAMPending: timeout >> >> Otherwise, there was almost no indication of a problem. >> >> If you have gamin installed, look for a process running as your user, try >> killing it, and see if things magically start to work again. If so, that >> could be your problem. >> >> > Yes, that could be an explanation for the problem. > > Regards > Racke > > > -- > LinuXia Systems => http://www.linuxia.de/ > Expert Interchange Consulting and System Administration > ICDEVGROUP => http://www.icdevgroup.org/ > Interchange Development Team > >
