Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 211184
Update to libc-client2006.i386 2006a-4.fc5 breaks pine spool copying
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:46 EST
Description of problem: On Oct 7, I did my usual yum update, and one of the updates was for libc-client2006.i386 2006a-4.fc5. The previous day, yum updated pine.i386 4.64-3.lvn5 from Livna (obviously), which installed libc-client2006.i386 2006a-1.fc5. After that, pine wouldn't move mail from /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/$USER/mbox ; it would only read directly from /var/spool/mail/$USER. I have since updated to libc-client2006.i386 2006b-1.fc5 (Oct 13), and installed uw-imap-utils-2006b-1.fc5 today (Oct 17). I had also tried reinstalling pine, as well as libc-client2006. Still wasn't working. I then found some postings by the UW folks, and they mentioned the /etc/c-client.cf file...apparently the set mail-subdirectory Mail line was causing trouble and interfering with pine's operation. I commented out that line and it fixed my problem (deleting the file also fixed it). I don't know if that was actually fixed in a later update, but that file was never manually removed or fixed, but the file timestamp--as you can see--was a couple days before that yum update... [root@bilbo ~]# ls -al /etc/c-client.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 Oct 4 14:11 /etc/c-client.cf [root@bilbo ~]# cat /etc/c-client.cf I accept the risk of using UW-IMAP set new-folder-format same-as-inbox set mail-subdirectory Mail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libc-client2006.i386 2006a-4.fc5 How reproducible: Not sure...only one computer to test it on, and now that I have it working, I'm not going to mess it up again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install pine 2. Update pine to pine.i386 4.64-3.lvn5, which installs libc-client2006.i386 2006a-4.fc5 3. When pine runs, it doesn't move from spool file
Yup, this is precisely what the libc-client2006-2006b-1 update fixes. Sorry for the troubles. %changelog * Fri Oct 06 2006 Rex Dieter <rexdieter[AT]users.sf.net> 2006b-1 - imap-2006b - %%ghost %%config(missingok,noreplace) %%{_sysconfdir}/c-client.cf
See also pine bugs with recent relevant activity: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184#c18 (comment 18 to the end) and http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187
(In reply to comment #1) > %changelog > * Fri Oct 06 2006 Rex Dieter <rexdieter[AT]users.sf.net> 2006b-1 > - imap-2006b > - %%ghost %%config(missingok,noreplace) %%{_sysconfdir}/c-client.cf > Yeah, I saw that in the changelog, but I'm not familiar with the RPM build process, so I wasn't sure what that did (especially since I still had the file hanging around). Anyway, no big deal; this isn't a production server or anything, just my home machine. Thanks for the prompt response and whatnot.