Since I upgraded from glibc-2.2.90-3 to glibc-2.2.90-8, mutt (1.2.5.1-1) fails to write mailbox back when running as regular user (ok as root) : Write failed! Saved partial mailbox to /tmp/mutt.bellet-bonobo-20478 Relevant part of the strace : 20478 1015426205.237775 stat64("/var/spool/mail/bellet", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=294960, ...}) = 0 20478 1015426205.238024 open("/tmp/mutt-bonobo-20478-3", O_RDONLY) = 5 20478 1015426205.238185 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=262, ...}) = 0 20478 1015426205.238382 mmap2(NULL, 262, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x403b8000 20478 1015426205.238534 _llseek(4, 190201, [190201], SEEK_SET) = 0 20478 1015426205.238677 munmap(0x403b8000, 262) = 0 20478 1015426205.238797 close(5) = 0 20478 1015426205.238924 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 20478 1015426205.239380 munmap(0, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 20478 1015426205.239564 close(4) = 0 20478 1015426205.239688 getpid() = 20478 20478 1015426205.239852 rename("/tmp/mutt-bonobo-20478-3", "/tmp/mutt.bellet-bonobo-20478") = 0 20478 1015426205.240765 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [HUP INT TERM TSTP WINCH], NULL, 8) = 0 20478 1015426205.241310 write(1, "\33[39m\7", 6) = 6 20478 1015426205.242017 write(1, "\33[24;1H\33[1m\33[31m\33[49mWrite faile"..., 93) = 93
Umh, for me it's vice versa, it works as a mortal user but fails as root. Write failed! Saved partial mailbox to /tmp/mutt.root-danielle-1032 Anyway, just noticed that todays rawhide (03/12) has 2.2.5-26 and a LOT of packages updated ! Are we to assume that we have to use --force to downgrade version numbers !?
It works with 2.2.5-26 -> # rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-26.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2.5-26.i386.rpm glibc-devel-2.2.5-26.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:glibc-common ########################################### [ 33%] 2:glibc ########################################### [ 66%] 3:glibc-devel ########################################### [100%] # mutt 7 kept, 1 deleted.
Closing.