Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000:
> Thanks for the help, Mikko. Eventually, all my defunct mutt processes
> disappeared, and now I am (happily) using mutt again. I'm not certain
> that it was the dotlock, though that sounds like a good possibility.
Okay, this makes me suspect that the supposedly dead processes were
trying or had gotten a file lock on (some of?) your folders, and thus
when you tried to use the next Mutt process, it would wound up hanging
again because it couldn't get a file lock either. Eventually, when all
of the Mutt processes died off, the locks were freed and you could again
access those mail folders. I think Mutt is supposed to time out if it
can't get a lock, but maybe something was messed up with either Mutt or
the file locking mechanism that you use on your system.
It's just a theory... Anyway, I'm fairly sure it was locking related
anyway, whatever the specifics.
> Hopefully it won't happen again, it was hard to live without mutt for
> two days!
I cam imagine! Glad to hear it's sorted out now.
Regards,
Mikko
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