Bug#280213: exim4: Thinks it's always out of spool space

[John Goerzen]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:25:56AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > So you can see there is an issue.
> [...]
> > Architecture: alpha
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-rc2

I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9 and will try it again.

> Please stop exim, and run
> strace -o /tmp/straceout -vf -s 132 exim4 -d -bd 2>&1 |\
>    tee /tmp/exim.debug

I still don't know why, but it is definately not traversing the fork
here.  I have no clue why not.  And since it isn't, we aren't getting
useful information back.

> 1) The output of 
>    grep -2 -E 'stat.*/var/spool/exim4' /tmp/straceout
> 2) The corresponding "spool directory /var/spool/exim4 space..."-line
> in /tmp/exim.debug

 3495 spool directory /var/spool/exim4 space = 0 blocks; inodes = 4096;
 check_sp
 ace = 0K (0 blocks); inodes = 0; msg_size = 10005000 (2442 blocks)
  3495 LOG: MAIN
   3495   spool directory space check failed: space=0 inodes=4096

-- John