Re: movemail 3.1, hanging again

Jean Louis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Sergey,

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 09:41:38AM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Jean Louis <[email protected]> ha escrit:
> 
> > > 1. Flip to another console and run
> > > 
> > >   ps axwl | grep movemail
> > > 
> > > (exactly like that, don't omit nor add anything) and send me the output
> > > it produces.
> > 
> > 0  1001   814   813  20   0 170108 11760 wait_o D+   tty1       0:10 movemail --debug-level=mailbox.prot,!trace6 -v imaps://username:password@server:993/INBOX /home/data1/protected/Maildir
> 
> That's all I wanted to know. The movemail process is in ininterruptible
> sleep state (as indicated by the D) flag. This means it is waiting for
> the disk operation to finish. Practically this rules out a possibility
> that it is a bug.
> 
> > >   strace -p $PID 2> log
> > 
> > I will do in next run, when it happens. Right now it is waiting with 6
> > messages for longer time.
> 
> You should have done it right now since you had plenty of time.

My computer was working, or was up, all the time. And by doing so, I
figured out, that problems with movemail, appear after the boot, in
first one or two batches. During the computer work, like last 24
hours, I have not experienced problems.

I did not look into the movemail source code, and I don't know C.

I am next time, on boot, going to use other Maildir as destination to
test it.

And I have to find strace package to install it.

Jean Louis
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