Bug#314356: exim4-daemon-heavy: "Spool file is locked" in mainlog

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:43:16AM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:37:24AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Can you try moving the retry database away, and probably see with -d
> > what the delivery attempt tries to do.
> > 
> 
> Well, the problem is not always here: yesterday i kill the problematic
> process and remove the lockfile and restart exim.

So you actually had a process hold a lock on the database? That's
something entirely different. Please use the exiwhat utility to find
out what the process is actually doing, and, if it is stuck delivering
a message, please see if exim4 -d -M <message-ID> will hang again and
probably give a hint about what might be going wrong here.

> Where is the retry database ?

/var/spool/exim4/db

Greetings
Marc

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