From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Description of problem: If root tries to look at its local mail (from updatedb, for instance), then it takes about a minute, and panics. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailx-8.1.1-33 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh graphical install FC3test1 from CD-ROM; finish firstboot. 2. Wait until updatedb runs the first time. 3. Login as root, then try to read mail. Actual Results: [root@fc3test1 root]# mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/root": 3 messages 3 new >N 1 root Wed Jul 14 03:27 -13259/251558593 fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Aborted Expected Results: Normal examination of received messages. Additional info: The tail of "strace -f mail" says ----- write(1, "Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ?"..., 43) = 43 write(1, "\"/var/spool/mail/root\": 3 messag"..., 41) = 41 write(4, "beling /taroon/sbin/cardmgr from"..., 3966) = 3966 _llseek(5, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(5, "From root "..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(5, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(5, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(5, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(5, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(5, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0 write(1, ">N 1 root Wed "..., 62) = 62 _llseek(5, 18446744073692672000, 0xfee37abc, SEEK_SET) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) dup(2) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8001 (flags O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) close(3) = 0 write(2, "fseek: Invalid argument\n", 24fseek: Invalid argument ) = 24 write(2, "panic: ", 7panic: ) = 7 write(2, "temporary file seek", 19temporary file seek) = 19 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 tgkill(15796, 15796, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ -----
Thank your for your notice, I can't reproduce this bug, pleas attach the file /var/spool/mail/root which caused this problem. IV
I can't reproduce this bug until I have the file /var/spool/mail/root which caused the problem. Ivana Varekova
I have same problem. The root mail file is 2.5G, so I wouldn't upload that. I renamed the file and recreated /var/spool/mail/root - sems the problem is gone. Can the mail file be too large?