Bug#1006603: evolution: Can't lock mbox file: The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””

[Patrice Duroux]

Hi,

Probably the same as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004484
which points to the possible problem source and also a temporary solution.

Regards,
Patrice

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:04:33 +0100 Adrian Immanuel Kiess <adrian at mx.aik.onl>
wrote:
> Package: evolution
> Version: 3.43.2-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>      Upgrading Evolution some months ago
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>      apt -u dist-upgrade
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>      Evolution is unable to lock the mbox file in /var/mail/adrian and reports
> error
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>      Evolution being able to read and lock mbox mail file in /var/mail
> 
> in the recent Evolution mail reader on Debian/testing, I can't read my local
> mails stored in /var/mail/adrian.
> 
> The error Evolution spits out is this:
> 
> Failed to refresh folder “adrian at lan.dac : INBOX”.
> 
> The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””.
> 
> Here is the directory listing of /var/mail on my system:
> 
> root at g6 /var/mail # ls -lah
> total 1,4M
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root     mail 4,0K 28 févr. 07:43 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root     root 4,0K 18 oct.  11:49 ../
> -rw-rw----  1 adrian   mail    0 28 févr. 07:44 adrian
> 
> Reading the mail with Sylpheed works fine.
> 
> I searched the Internet with Google, but could not find a solution.
> 
> I would be very gladful for help or fix.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Kiess
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages evolution depends on: