I think this is due to to an undead exim process failing to release the lock on a particular db file. In /var/log/exim4/mainlog, you will see frequent lines like "Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim4/db/callout.lockfile: timed out". 'lsof | grep lockfile' will also tell you something.
I stopped exim, killed all the remaining processes still waiting for the lock, and in the end had to kill -9 the last (several days old) receiving process. /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base then ran through without problems. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
