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Bug 208446 - when sending or receiving mail via a POP connection the error fcntl(2) no locks available is produced
when sending or receiving mail via a POP connection the error fcntl(2) no loc...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205095
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[POP]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-30 15:48 UTC by Damion
Modified: 2005-11-15 02:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Damion 2001-08-30 15:48:55 UTC 
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Description of Problem:
when sending or receiving mail via a pop connection the error message
fcntl(2) no locks available is produced. Then the mail client crashes.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. send/receive button pressed
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
mail client crashes

Expected Results:
new mail should be picked up from the server

How often does this happen? 
every time the send/receive button is pressed

Additional Information:
Comment 1 linenoise 2001-09-03 01:12:54 UTC 
I am seeing this with my IMAP mailbox although it doesn't crash the
mail application and all functions seem to work. I just get this
annoying dialog box appearing every time I click "Send/Receive" or the
auto download runs every 10 minutes.

The message reads:

Error while 'Synchronizing 'mbox'':
Failed to get lock using fcntl(2): No locks available

It seems to happen if your home directory is on an NFS mounted
filesystem. I ran Evoloution as root and didn't see the message once.
In the syslog I see:

Sep  3 12:52:56 doughnut kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.17.25
Sep  3 12:52:56 doughnut kernel: lockd: failed to monitor
192.168.17.25

That's the IP address of the NFS server for the home directories.
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2001-09-04 19:27:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205095 ***