Re: Sv: Balsa 2.5.2 "Failure to sync mailbox xxxx"

[Fred Smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> 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.

I've run it with strace, and as one might expect there is so much
output that I can't sort my way thru it.

I've captured a full run, where I exit the program right after the
error message appears, and another where I "kill -15 balsa" right
after the error.

I'm sure they're too big to send thru this list (around 2 1/2 MB,
give or take). 

So,... I've copied the one that I killed to pastebin, under the name
"balsa-mailbox-sync-error".

I'm hoping that someone of you here can make sense of it and help me
figure out what the problem is.

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