Bug 2222174

Summary: The folder 'x' cannot be compacted because another operation is in progress.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Petr Menšík <pemensik>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 38CC: erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, kai-engert-fedora, klaas, mail, rhughes, rstrode, stransky
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Description Petr Menšík 2023-07-12 07:02:32 UTC 
For some time my thunderbird occasionally emits quite annoying error message that another operation is in progress. It seems it is blocking itself. I have been running multiple thunderbird instances concurrently on _different_ machines. My home is local on encrypted disk, it is not shared in any way.

I have few folders configured to be compacted and dropped automatically. But this error happens in rows. It tells me for one folder, I click okay. It says another folder cannot be compacted too. Then it follows with 3-7 repeats, which are quite annoying.

Please help me finding a reason for this. I tried running thunderbird from terminal to see what it is writing. Unfortunately no error message were printed there.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have thunderbird configured for gmail account
2. have a lot of mail folders for separate mailing lists
3. have it running few hours.
Actual Results:  
Quite annoying error message saying the operation could not be done.

Expected Results:  
Some kind of locking is done on each folder. Folder operations should have some jitter randomized, so they should not clash if I have multiple thunderbird instances connected to the same account.
Comment 1 Petr Menšík 2023-07-12 07:04:06 UTC 
Created attachment 1975286 [details]
retention policy
Comment 2 Petr Menšík 2023-07-12 07:05:20 UTC 
Created attachment 1975287 [details]
account general information
Comment 3 Petr Menšík 2023-07-12 07:06:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1975288 [details]
operation in progress message
Comment 4 Petr Menšík 2023-07-12 07:07:17 UTC 
Created attachment 1975289 [details]
synchronization & storage panel
Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2023-07-18 08:03:58 UTC 
Frankly that's beyond our scope here - please report it at bugzilla.mozilla.org to thunderbird component.
Thanks.
Comment 6 Petr Menšík 2023-12-01 12:07:02 UTC 
I guess bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288896 is relevant here. I haven't found existing bug for compact operation specifically.

Issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757181 seems to be similar.
But I have filled https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1867762 as a new bug, because not existing bug seemed to report exactly this.
Comment 7 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-28 13:26:39 UTC 
Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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