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

[Sylvain LE GALL]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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
> 

Ok, i will run exiwhat when it will happen again.

FYI the process is not killed by a /etc/init.d/exim stop. 

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall