X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: "'Zdzislaw Meglicki'" , References: <1319578206.31584.YahooMailRC@web80708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <005c01cc93ec$4bdf1da0$e39d58e0$@ieee.org> <1319650967.20592.YahooMailRC@web80704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: <1319650967.20592.YahooMailRC@web80704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: RE: exim-4.76-1 fails to remove lock from spooler on delivery Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:33:02 -0400 Message-id: <00af01cc941e$760e9a60$622bcf20$@ieee.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p9QKXfBD011316 > -----Original Message----- > From: Zdzislaw Meglicki > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 13:43 PM > > Hello Pierre, > > We are getting somewhere. First, the system went down, because it was > patching itself and needed to reboot. Normal for Windows. > > I'm now sitting in front of the machine. I have stopped exim and cleaned all > logs in /var/log/exim. Then restarted it. Then I e-mailed a message from > perth.ovpit.indiana.edu to gusta at yanchep.ovpit.indiana.edu to reproduce > the problem and inspected he logs. > > Here's what I find: > > 1. In the /var/spool/mail directory, the message has been written on the > destination file "gustav". > 2. The lock file, /var/spool/mail/gustav.lock, which wasn't there originally, is > there now and remains unremoved. > 3. There is an entry in /var/log/exim/exim_panic.log that looks as follows: > > root@yanchep $ cat exim_panic.log > 2011-10-26 13:33:46 LTOOS9-0002MK-LW failed to read delivery status for > gustav@yanchep.ovpit.indiana.edu from delivery subprocess > 2011-10-26 13:33:46 LTOOS9-0002MK-LW appendfile transport process > returned non-zero status 0x0001: terminated by signal 1 root@yanchep $ I was able to replicate the problem on Windows 7: The delivery process crashes because it can't load winmm.dll 16:06:33 3572 writing data block fd=6 size=1 timeout=0 6 [main] exim 3572 C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\exim-4.76-1.exe: *** fatal error - unable to load C:\Windows\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 1114 16:06:33 5620 LOG: MAIN PANIC 16:06:33 5620 failed to read delivery status for phumblet@phumblet-lap01w from delivery subprocess So it's a Cygwin issue... I think it has been discussed before but I am not sure if there is a solution. Pierre -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple