[Evolution] Crashes in Debian (Woody)

[Brandon Young <bkyoung ukans edu>]

Okay, just joined the mailing list; brand new to Debian, too ...

I just installed Debian on a box at home.  The first thing I did was 
upgrade to Woody, install Helix GNOME, and install Evolution.  I was so 
excited when it [Evolution] started up and I could add a contact.  But 
then the trouble started.  First I tried to delete the default hello 
message from helix ... that yielded the following error messages:


(1)     "Error while 'Displaying message UID "1"': Failed to get lock 
using fcntl(2): No locks available"

(2)     "Ooops!  The view for 'evolution:/local/Inbox' have died 
unexpectedly. :-(  This probably means that the mail component has 
crashed."   **

** I also get this message when I try to check my mail on a pop server **


So, I thought "Aghh, I'll come back to it," and composed a message 
(which worked beautifully [no walking cursor, no crash, etc.].  When I 
clicked on send, I got:

(3)     "Error while 'Sending "Evolution ..."': Failed to get lock using 
fcntl(2): No locks available"  --allright, I'm beginning to see a 
pattern. [btw, "Evolution..." was the subject of the mail.]

Since I couldn't send the message, I saved it using the `File --> Save 
As ...' method.  That worked.  Then I closed the composer window, at 
which point it asked me if I wanted to save the message, so I said yes.  
It then gave me:

(4)     "Error while 'Saving changes to message': Failed to get lock 
using fcntl(2): No locks available"

I randomly get this error, too [I'm not sure what action I take to 
provoke it]

(5)    "Error while `Expunging "/mbox"': Failed to get lock using 
fcntl(2): No locks available"



So, there's probably a very simple fix to these problems [how to get rid 
of fcntl(2) error] ... I just don't know what it is.  Has anyone else 
had this problem?  Know how to fix it?


Brandon Young
Sys Admin
ITTC, Universty of Kansas
bkyoung ittc ukans edu