Root mail account is dying
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 2 12:21:31 UTC 2005
A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> Whenever I attempt to access mail from root, it pauses, then dies with
> the following error message.
>
> Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
> "/var/spool/mail/root": 47 messages 47 new
> >N 1 root at Anar.galarik.or Wed May 18 08:13 29/1103 "SMART error
> (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host: Anar"
> N 2 root at Anar.galarik.or Wed May 18 08:13 29/1106 "SMART error
> (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: Anar"
> N 3 root at Anar.galarik.or Thu May 19 02:03 26/989 "Cron <root at Anar>
> /usr/bin/yum -y upgrade"
> ...
> fseek: Invalid argument
> panic: temporary file seek
> Aborted
> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>
> I am not worried about the particular messages being shown; I understand
> what is going on there (I get SMART messages whenever I reboot the
> machine). My concern is that I can't get into root's mail.
Perhaps /var/spool/mail/root lives on one of the bad disk blocks that
SMART is complaining about?
Can you copy /var/spool/mail/root to another file and then open it with
"Mail -f filename"?
Paul.
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