Bug 590213 - procmail not reading /etc/procmailrc
Summary: procmail not reading /etc/procmailrc
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: procmail
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-08 06:27 UTC by Trever Adams
Modified: 2010-05-21 03:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-21 03:05:41 UTC
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Description Trever Adams 2010-05-08 06:27:45 UTC 
procmail: Couldn't chdir to "//Maildir/" procmail: Error while writing to ...

I get this error over and over. Nothing in configuration changed.

As everything worked fine before a yum upgrade, it seems thatsomething in the following files has caused procmail to fail to work,

May 07 11:59:25 Updated: foomatic-db-filesystem-4.0-15.20100204.fc13.noarch
May 07 11:59:49 Updated: foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-15.20100204.fc13.noarch
May 07 12:01:05 Updated: selinux-policy-3.7.19-13.fc13.noarch
May 07 12:01:07 Updated: PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:11 Updated: PackageKit-glib-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:12 Updated: PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:24 Updated: PackageKit-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:27 Updated: PackageKit-yum-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:29 Updated: x264-libs-0.0.0-0.27.20100130git3659b81.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:32 Updated: ffmpeg-libs-0.6-0.3.20100429svn.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:33 Updated: ffmpeg-0.6-0.3.20100429svn.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:34 Updated: PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.4-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:38 Updated: upower-0.9.3-1.fc13.i686
May 07 12:01:40 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-0.6.8-9.fc13.i686
May 07 12:03:33 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-13.fc13.noarch
May 07 12:04:01 Updated: foomatic-db-4.0-15.20100204.fc13.noarch
May 07 12:04:13 Updated: fedora-logos-13.0.2-1.fc13.noarch
May 07 12:04:17 Updated: xkeyboard-config-1.8-6.fc13.noarch
May 07 13:59:38 Updated: libgcc-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 13:59:45 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
May 07 13:59:48 Updated: system-config-users-1.2.97-1.fc13.noarch
May 07 14:00:02 Updated: fedora-release-notes-13-3.fc13.noarch
May 07 14:00:33 Updated: glibc-common-2.12-1.i686
May 07 14:00:47 Updated: glibc-2.12-1.i686
May 07 14:00:48 Updated: libstdc++-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:00:49 Updated: nautilus-extensions-2.30.1-3.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:10 Updated: nautilus-2.30.1-3.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:12 Updated: libgomp-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:13 Updated: libtool-ltdl-2.2.6-20.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:16 Updated: cpp-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:36 Installed: kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:38 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-4.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:46 Updated: unixODBC-2.2.14-11.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:55 Updated: 1:valgrind-3.5.0-17.fc13.i686
May 07 14:01:58 Updated: nscd-2.12-1.i686
May 07 14:02:00 Updated: parted-2.1-8.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:02 Updated: pygobject2-2.21.1-6.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:11 Updated: libgcj-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:18 Updated: libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:23 Updated: glibc-headers-2.12-1.i686
May 07 14:02:24 Updated: glibc-devel-2.12-1.i686
May 07 14:02:28 Updated: gcc-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:31 Updated: gcc-c++-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686
May 07 14:02:32 Updated: libtool-2.2.6-20.fc13.i686

My guess is glibc, selinux or kernel related stuff.
Comment 1 Trever Adams 2010-05-08 07:46:39 UTC 
This may actually be some weird amavisd-new bug. I am still investigating. (My setup is fetchmail -> postfix -> amavisd-new -> postfix -> dspam -> postfix -> procmail.

I found a few strange bugs in my amavisd-new setup (I have a custom configuration). With the new default config it is barfing on some DB (db4, db4-devel stuff claiming a version mismatch, witch based on rpm -q is not true). I customized the current amvisd-new config and disabled the db4 stuff. The problem with procmail seems to have miraculously disappeared, please leave this open while I try to figure out what is going on and why it just suddenly broke.
Comment 2 Trever Adams 2010-05-21 03:05:41 UTC 
This is really strange. Something in the problem with amavisd-new was causing the problem. I still don't understand how it was showing up as it was, but the problem is gone.
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