[cobalt-users] Re: Perpetual mail locks on Qube2

["Alain LAROCHE" <laroche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| In a previous message, Grant [Reset Parameters] Hutchinson typed 
| vigorously:
| 
| >One thing that I needed to do to get the system back up and running was 
| >to delete a 0 byte /var/cobalt/status file. Many of the services on the 
| >Qube couldn't start up properly (including the admin web server) until I 
| >deleted that file and the system created a new one.
| 
| Ok, never mind...
| 
| I fixed the problem this afternoon, although I still have no idea why 
| this stuff starts in the first place. I'm assuming that it's some 
| weirdness with qpopper, but who knows. Somebosy clarify this issue forme 
| if you can. At any rate, I solved the recurring mail .lock and .pop files 
| by doing the following:
| 
| - Turn off email services in Cobalt Admin
| - Telnet as root:
|      rm /home/spool/mail/.*.pop -i
|      rm /home/spool/mail/*.lock -i
|      rm /var/cobalt/status
| - Reboot server in Cobalt Admin
| - Restart email services in Cobalt Admin
| 
| Everybody is happy again.
| 
| Grant

Hi list
I have exactly the same problem on my Qube 2.
I've solved it by removing the .pop and .lock and reboot
But after 5 or 6 days, the problem was back.
It seems that the problem in comming from a qpopper update with OS 4.0.
I'm stuck with this problem.
Please help
Alain