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and subject line kmail: cannot lock /var/mail/{user} when getting localmachine
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Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
when using checkmail of localmailbox it reports it cannot lock /var/mail/<user>
and so does not collect mail.
Can only import from /var/mail/<user>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor
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No more comments on this issue after Sune's.
KMail is missconfigured trying to write a lockfile in a directory with
read-only permissions. I'm closing this bug.
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