[Dovecot] error in 1.1.2

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 21:26 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:20 +0200, Cor Bosman wrote:
> > Now im seeing these:
> > 
> > Sep  9 19:28:25 userimap3 dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): file_dotlock_create() failed with index cache file /var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/indexes/u/ul/xxxxx/.Collega Coaching/dovecot.index.cache: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 
> > Is that any better?
> 
> Yes, although the error message could be changed to "locking timed out".
> But at least now the error shouldn't be visible to clients (other than
> small slowdowns due to the 2 second lock wait).
> 
> Anyway, the real problem is one of:

Oh, right, local fs has the same problem, but not with fcntl. That's
kind of weird. Then pretty much none of my ideas are valid. It rather
sounds like the lock_method=dotlock handling code would be broken. But I
just tried and can't reproduce this problem..

Can you reproduce it with imaptest (using a test account so it won't
break your mails :)? http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest

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