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dotlock failure



What could be the causes of this:
Can't dotlock /home/eric/Mail/sent.

Couldn't lock /home/eric/Mail/sent

Could not send the message.

(I am sending multiple attachment - usually these 
are not a problem).

I could not extract anything useful from the strace ...

-- 
Eric Smith

access("/home/eric/Mail/sent", W_OK)    = 0
stat64("/home/eric/Mail/sent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/eric/Mail/sent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/eric/Mail/sent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/home/eric/Mail/sent", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0xb7b5e000
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCONT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=0x1200011)   = 22030
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [CHLD], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x80ce540, [], SA_INTERRUPT}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
alarm(900)                              = 0
waitpid(22030, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 3], 0) = 22030
alarm(0)                                = 895
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCONT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2539, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0xb7b5c000
read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2539
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0xb7b5c000, 4096)                = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
write(2, "Can\'t dotlock /home/eric/Mail/se"..., 36Can't dotlock 
/home/eric/Mail/sent.
) = 36
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0
write(2, "Couldn\'t lock /home/eric/Mail/se"..., 35Couldn't lock 
/home/eric/Mail/sent
) = 35
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0xb7b5e000, 4096)                = 0
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 8), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0xb7b5e000
write(1, "Could not send the message.\n", 28Could not send the message.
) = 28
unlink("/tmp/mutt-pepper-1000-22009-0") = 0
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