Re: Zoe suddenly "forgets" user hex number?

Hi R.,

Zoe wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Jul 13, 2004, at 11:19, Thomas Jenny wrote:
> 
>> - next time I start Zoe in daemon mode, no emails appear, and my 
>> account definitions are
>>   gone; it seems that Zoe has suddenly forgotten the long hex number 
>> associated with
>>   my user name, and assigned a new one, as I see these new directories 
>> were getting
>>   created in the various subdirectories of Zoe.
> 
> 
> Hmmm... this sounds very bad :/
> 
> On the other hand, I haven't run into this problem yet :)
> 
> In any case, what platform are you running (OS, JVM, etc)? Could you 
> send a bug report with all those informations?
> 
> http://localhost:10080/bug/
> 
copied from System Info on my notebook:

Version: 0.5.9
Build: 200405031.958637
Configuration: Default*
JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.4.2_05
Language: Deutsch (Schweiz)
Encoding: Cp1252
Memory: 66 MB
Implementation: Sun Microsystems Inc.
OS: Windows XP 5.1
Architecture: X86
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I'm not at my other system at the moment, but this is a Linux System,
(Suse Linux), Sun JDK 1.4.2, with >40'000 messages.

I've seen it happen to both; as both at the moment read from the same pop accounts,
and it doesnt happen to both at the same time, I think that it is not caused
by a specific email message ...



> Here is how it goes under, er, "normal conditions": when a user is 
> created, it get assign a unique identifier (that infamous long hex 
> number). This identifier is used to retrieve the user data (mails, 
> indices, objects, etc). A user is only created once. The user name is 
> based on your OS user name as reflected by the Java 'user.name' 
> property. If the name remain constant, its identifier remain the same as 
> well. In other words, a new identifier is created for every distinct 
> user name. Could it be that you are running the app under different OS 
> accounts?

No, I always start it with the -Duser.name=... option, as a Windows Service actually,
so no possibility to mistype the name or something.
I use Java Service Wrapper to make this a windows service, btw
(see http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/).
And even if I would, shouldnt it just use the old DB and mails, as soon as I use the
proper OS account again?


Anyway, I hope this helps a bit, and thanks for the answers so far.

Cheers,
     Thomas





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