Subject: I hope someone can help me...

From: "M. Aaron Kowalski" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:46:40 -0400 (EDT)

I've been experiencing a problem with PINE, as of this morning...  I'll
try to describe what's happened-and I hope someone can get back to me
quickly-if you've had the same problem or know what's going on.

This has never happened to be except for TODAY-and it hasn't gone away
yet, but-when I select PINE... It hangs for about 10 seconds on the main
screen...while saying OPENING INBOX <->...then says "TRYING TO GET MAILBOX
FROM LOCK PROCESS 22214"/"MAILBOX IS OPEN BY ANOTHER PROCESS, ACCESS IS
READ ONLY"  And so, I'm unable to delete my incoming messages from my
INBOX...and the e-mail's are piling up...

I hope someone is able to help.

-MaThEw

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:45:51 -0500 (EST)

> READ ONLY"  And so, I'm unable to delete my incoming messages from my

You have another pine process running.. perhaps you lost your connection
in the middle of a session.  If it is still a problem, you need to kill
the pine process.

from your unix prompt, type: ps -ux
You should see something like the following:

% ps -ux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT START  TIME COMMAND
pfarabee 12122 15.4  1.0  288  524 p2 R    08:37   0:00 ps -ux
pfarabee 12032  0.0  0.0  948    0 p0 IW   08:34   0:02 pine
pfarabee 12102  0.0  1.5  256  744 p2 S    08:37   0:00 -tcsh (tcsh)
pfarabee 12020  0.0  0.0  256    0 p0 IW   08:34   0:00 -tcsh (tcsh)
%

Be sure that in the "USER" section, you see your username.
Find the one line that has the "COMMAND" of "pine" (in this case, the
second line)
Look in the section of that line under "PID" (Process ID, in this
case, 12032)

After locating the correct PID, you need to kill it.  The syntax for this
type of a kill is 'kill -9 PID'

For example:
% kill -9 12032

That should kill the stuck process.. of course, repeat the process if you
have more than one pine session that is stuck.

Pat

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From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:40:20 -0400 (EDT)

> type of a kill is 'kill -9 PID'

Hold it. A kill -9 can be a very dangerous thing, and should be used only
as a last resort. Try a kill -HUP <pid> or a kill <pid> first before going
on to a kill -9 <pid>

The -9 signal cannot be trapped by the process, and gives the process no
time to "clean up". This can result in a corrupt inbox or mail folders.

-jeff

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From: Spam this! <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:32:28 -0700 (PDT)

> You should see something like the following:

This doesn't work on System V; it is just 'ps'.

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From: Alan Thew <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 01:47:30 +0100 (BST)

ps -fuuser

where user is you works on most modern SyS V boxes and is close to ps -ux
on SunOS 4.x /BSD

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