[Dovecot] locking problems with RHEL 3 and dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.2.2006 22:17, "Dan Bongert" <dbongert at ssc.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I just migrated from a FreeBSD/Sendmail/UW-IMAP setup to RHEL
> 3/Postfix/Dovecot (1.0a5 currently). Both systems used Procmail as the final
> delivery agent (into inboxes or .
> 
> Since the changeover, things have *mostly* been going ok, but I've been
> having some problems that I think are locking-related.
> 
> I'm getting reports from users about IMAP hangs (mostly from Thunderbird).
> Sometimes I see this in the Dovecot logs:
> 
> ovecot: Feb 06 11:30:45 Error: imap(dbongert): fcntl() failed with mbox file
> /home/d/dbongert/mail/worklists/tech-partners: Resource temporarily
> unavailable

Well, this means that some process has kept the mbox file locked for over 5
minutes and Dovecot gave up trying to lock it. A couple of Dovecot hangs
have been fixed since 1.0alpha5, so upgrading might help.