[arch-general] spamd failure

[pete]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:51:05 +0000
pete <p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:36:59 +0100
> Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
> 
> > On 16.03.2012 21:25, pete wrote:
> > > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so:
> > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > but 
> > > locate libperl.so   gives 
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/libperl.so 
> > 
> > Don't trust locate. It uses a database which can easily be out of
> > date.
> > 
> > > 
> > > but there is no libperl.so in    /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/
> > > 
> > > this was working fine untill yesterdays pacman -Suy   which
> > > completed without a reported problem
> > 
> > `pacman -S perl`
> > 
> > Did your system crash during/after the upgrade? Is your disk full
> > (space and inodes)? Is/was your file system broken and fsck
> > "repaired" it?
> > 
> 
> Hummm Hi ..
> 
> 
> Well disk plenty of space 76Gb free   after doing pacman -S perl  i am
> now getting 
> 
>  Starting spamd
> [BUSY] Mar 16 20:48:00.154 [2051] error: spamd: unable to determine
> home directory for user 'spamd' spamd: unable to determine home
> directory for user 'spamd' [FAIL] 
> 
> This is one of those times when things get silly  ho humm 
> 
> disk is ok just run an fsck on it n9o erros found ..
> 
> Pete .
> 
> 

And another thing that has started happening at the same time  every
time i send a mail from claws it closes down completely as soon as the
mail has gone ..not sure if they are related ..

Pete .


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