Re: Sv: Balsa 2.5.2 "Failure to sync mailbox xxxx"
- From: Fred Smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Sv: Balsa 2.5.2 "Failure to sync mailbox xxxx"
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:06:46 -0500
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:00:12AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
Fred,
there are number of reasons syncing mailbox state may fail - exactly
as you figured out! Does anything get printed when you run balsa in
a terminal window?
yes there is, though it wasn't obviously meaningful to me. I'll try again
later on today and see if I can find something there, and will post
some of it to the list for you to see.
here's what appears in the terminal window where balsa was started:
$ balsa
(balsa:19394): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by
any .service files
Network is available (Thu 14 Jan 2016 05:52:30 PM EST)
openjdk version "1.8.0_65"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode)
[fredex fcshome Desktop]$
the Gtk warning pops up right away when it is started. the openjdk
messages appear when the first mailbox is opened.
I also looked in /var/log/messages and see nothing suspicious there, as
well as some of the other files there just in case messages weren't
being logged where I expected.
I triggered the failure to sync message several times but nothing showed
up here beyond the two groups mentioned above.
I should note that I am using the MATE desktop. However, the system
was originally installed as a Gnome system, and I added MATE (from epel)
after the fact, so all the gnome bits should actually be there (but not,
apparently, actually running).
The hardcore was is to run strace -olog -ff /path/to/balsa and grep
for failed accesses to the mailbox - but this is bit more
demanding...
if nothing else works...
I guess it's time to try strace, since the above steps don't seem to
reveal anything telling. I'll post that separately, later on.
Pawel
Den 14.01.2016 02:50:59 skrev Fred Smith:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jack wrote:
On 2016.01.13 19:20, Fred Smith wrote:
Hi all!
I've just compiled Balsa 2.5.2, which went without significant
issue. but when I open my main mailbox, clicking on some messages
elicits a warning box pop up saying "Failed to sync mailbox xxx".
I see that message could originate in any of a bazillion (more or
less) places in the program, but haven't yet figured out which
one, nor know what it actually is trying to tell me. what problem
causes this?
anyone know a magic incantation to solve it?
When you say your main mailbox, do you mean inbox? What type of
mailbox is it? mbox, maildir, MH, ...? Are you having trouble just
opening the local mailbox, or actually trying to sync with a remote
server? POP3 or IMAP? You can also start balsa from the command
line using -d (debug POP) or -D (debug IMAP) to get more information
on what might be going wrong with syncing.
sorry for the lack of details.
I run a mail server on my personal Linux box, at home, with my own
domain. Sendmail delivers to procmail which does the final delivery
to mbox mail folders.
in my home directory is a subdir named "Mail" that contains a symlink
to /var/spool/mail/fredex, so that mutt (what I have always used)
accesses all my mail folders in ~/fredex/Mail.
So, I can't prove the message I mention doesn't happen in other
mailboxes,
but I've seen it in the "fredex" mailbox. usually if there's an unread
mail, I click on it and get that message.
ls -l /home/fredex/Mail/fredex /var/spool/mail/fredex
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fredex fredex 22 Feb 24 2013
/home/fredex/Mail/fredex -> /var/spool/mail/fredex
-rw-rw----. 1 fredex fredex 2309646535 Jan 13 20:43
/var/spool/mail/fredex
I don't see any reason why -rw-rw---- isn't adequate, as long as the
mailbox is owned by me, which it is. Does Balsa need more relaxed
permissions than that?
This is a new installation of Centos-7. Previously I was using
Centos-6
and it had Balsa 2.4.14. In looking at the backup of that prior
system,
I see that /var/spool/mail/fredex looks like this:
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 2300888945 Dec 2 14:53 fredex
is Balsa complaining because the permissions are TOO permissive?
<snip useless stuff>
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex fcshome stoneham ma us -----------------------------
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
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