Re: [Evolution] inbox_problem

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

hmmm, the fcntl(2) error just means that the mbox file can't be locked
for some reason - usually this is because the filesystem/kernel won't
let it. Since you can read it fine manually I suspect that the mbox file
itself is ok (or at least no permission problems or anything).

along with your mailbox file, there will also be files called
mbox.ev-summary and mbox.ibex.* and a file called mbox.cmeta (where mbox
is replaced by the name of the folder -if and only if- you are using
2.0, otherwise they really are called mbox)

check the permissions on those files and make sure they are read/write
by you. Also make sure they are regular files and not broken inodes or
anything.

if they all look fine to you, you might try rm -f'ing them and seeing if
that helps (they are all auto-generated). if it comes to this ,just be
aware that evo might take a while rebuilding the mbox.ibex files if you
have a lot of mail.

hope that helps,

Jeff

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 19:17, John Taylor wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My Evolution e-mail inbox has been corrupted.  It might be because it 
> was too big or because my 2 yr old son pushed the red button on the 
> office power bar while it was running. With help, I renamed the file 
> (old_inbox) and started a new one that works. But, I get the following 
> error when I try to read messages in the old inbox: Failed to get lock 
> using Fcntl(2): Resource temporarily unavailable.
> I re-indexed the old one but that didn't solve the problem. I also 
> re-installed Evolution and that didn't help.  I've concluded that 
> there's something in the old inbox (until now I hadn't realized that the 
> inbox in just one great big file), but how do I find and removed this 
> things that's causing the error?  I can search that file using grep, and 
> read old messages in an editor so it isn't completely useless. But I'd 
> like to make it Evolution friendly again.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Taylor
> University of Victoria
>
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