On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jos Backus wrote:

> I have a feeling that you will need to do
> 
>       rm -f `cat TARGETS`
>       make
>       make setup check
> 
> in the qmail source directory

This seems to have fixed things, thanks.

> What does
> 
>       # cd /var/tmp; ktrace -p 12849; sleep 10; ktrace -C; kdump | less
> 
> say about what qmail-send is doing?

It was basically this kind of "stuff" over and over again:

 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  select(0x9,0xbfbfde14,0xbfbfddf4,0,0xbfbfdde0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   select 1
 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  close(0x8)
 12849 qmail-send RET   close 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  open(0x6070,0x4,0xbfbfdcc4)
 12849 qmail-send NAMI  "lock/trigger"
 12849 qmail-send RET   open 8
 12849 qmail-send CALL  stat(0x4262,0xbfbfdc60)
 12849 qmail-send NAMI  "todo"
 12849 qmail-send RET   stat 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  open(0x4262,0x4,0xffffffff)
 12849 qmail-send NAMI  "todo"
 12849 qmail-send RET   open 9
 12849 qmail-send CALL  fstat(0x9,0xbfbfdc60)
 12849 qmail-send RET   fstat 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  fcntl(0x9,0x2,0x1)
 12849 qmail-send RET   fcntl 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  getdirentries(0x9,0x18000,0x1000,0x11174)
 12849 qmail-send RET   getdirentries 512/0x200
 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  select(0x9,0xbfbfde14,0xbfbfddf4,0,0xbfbfdde0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   select 1
 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  select(0x9,0xbfbfde14,0xbfbfddf4,0,0xbfbfdde0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   select 1
 12849 qmail-send CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfddb4,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   gettimeofday 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  getdirentries(0x9,0x18000,0x1000,0x11174)
 12849 qmail-send RET   getdirentries 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  lseek(0x9,0,0,0,0)
 12849 qmail-send RET   lseek 0
 12849 qmail-send CALL  close(0x9)
 12849 qmail-send RET   close 0 

Primitive observation tells me it was something to do with the trigger
file and it's relationship with the upgrade kernel and system binaries,
but I'll leave the final analysis to the more qmail-knowledgable.

Thanks for your help.

Chris

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