Bug 804333

Summary: dist fails with "unable to link ... File exists" error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wolfgang Denk <wd>
Component: nmhAssignee: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Wolfgang Denk 2012-03-17 21:16:43 UTC
Description of problem:

Attempts to bounce a message to another address fail like this:

-> dist +inbox 167 
...
What now? send
send: unable to link /home/wd/Mail/inbox/167 to /home/wd/Mail/inboxsendhw7pvG: File exists


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nmh-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "dist" to redistribute a message like this:

	dist +inbox 167
2. When asked "What now?", enter "send"
  
Actual results:

No message sent, instead error message:

send: unable to link /home/wd/Mail/inbox/167 to /home/wd/Mail/inboxsendhw7pvG: File exists

Expected results:

No error, message sent.

Additional info:

This error appears to have been introduced with nmh-1.4; it worked
before.

strace shows what's happening:

...
18658 write(1, "What now? ", 10)        = 10
18658 fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 4), ...}) = 0
18658 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f5b29211000
18658 read(0, "send\n", 1024)           = 5
18658 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x31fe236300}, {0x40a5a0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x31fe236300}, 8) = 0
18658 umask(077)                        = 022
18658 getpid()                          = 18658
18658 open("/home/wd/Mail/inboxsendDKfp0U", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 4
18658 close(4)                          = 0
18658 umask(022)                        = 077
18658 link("/home/wd/Mail/inbox/167", "/home/wd/Mail/inboxsendDKfp0U") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
18658 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4
18658 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2512, ...}) = 0
18658 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f5b29210000
18658 read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2512
18658 read(4, "", 4096)                 = 0
18658 close(4)                          = 0
18658 munmap(0x7f5b29210000, 4096)      = 0
18658 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
18658 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
18658 open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
18658 open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
18658 writev(2, [{"send", 4}, {": ", 2}, {"unable to link /home/wd/Mail/inb"..., 41}, {" ", 1}, {"/home/wd/Mail/inboxsendDKfp0U", 29}, {": ", 2}, {"File exists", 11}, {"\n", 1}], 8) = 91
18658 exit_group(1)                     = ?

Comment 2 Henrique Martins 2012-05-01 18:29:33 UTC
The fix is part of nmh-1.5 RC1.  Is there an rpm somewhere in Fedora for this?  I've enabled updates-testing and still didn't see it.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-07-03 11:40:02 UTC
nmh-1.5-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nmh-1.5-1.fc16

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-07-03 11:40:29 UTC
nmh-1.5-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nmh-1.5-1.fc17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-07-05 23:32:51 UTC
Package nmh-1.5-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing nmh-1.5-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-10265/nmh-1.5-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-07-17 17:22:39 UTC
nmh-1.5-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-07-17 17:25:54 UTC
nmh-1.5-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.