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Alpine not working
Hi,
Alpine e-mail client is not working here. If I start it, it just does nothing. Process starts (and it doesn't die), but it goes immediately to sleep state as I can see with ps. At the beginning it was working okay but one day it magically didn't work any more. I've tried to remove ~/.pinerc and to run it with another usernames (including root), but always same. Between "last working try" and "first not-working-try" I've possibly installed some packages and/or done some system configuration, but I cannot remember exactly. Any ideas? I'm quite newbie with OpenBSD but I've quite long Linux-administration-background. |
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As a new user I cannot edit my first post, so for information: I'm running OpenBSD 4.6 on virtual server, i386 platform.
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We need further clarification.
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I've installed Alpine as a ready package via pkg_add from repository [mirrors.nic.funet.fi/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/ which is official mirror of OpenBSD package source.
And yes, I got Alpine running again. But it always falls in "sleep"-state when I run it, and after like 15-30 minutes sleeping it finally starts and works normally. So theoretically I can run it always in screen, but I still wanted to find out which is the problem. My guess is that there's some other application/daemon reserving some resources and/or files that Alpine is waiting for. As I said, previously Alpine used to work correctly and start without any delay. About platform: OpenBSD is running on VMWare ESXi 3.5 -server and I've allocated it ~512MB of RAM, ~10GB of disk space and 1,3GHz processor (Intel Xeon). |
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It it was working at one point, the question now is to pinpoint what changed. I would suggest starting from scratch by reinstalling (or creating a new virtual image...), install Alpine next, verify its behavior, & build your system up as before checking the functionality of Alpine after each major change. Yes, this is laborious, but there is no other way to pinpoint the specific cause. Good luck. |
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Okay, thanks for the answers. I was indeed excepting some obvious reason for this weird behavior of alpine, but as there's none, I'm going to do a fresh install and try to reproduce the bug, as ocicat described. Thanks again for the help!
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Another thought is to use "top" and selectively kill one active process at a time to see if it affects starting alpine.
This page also might be of some use: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/ Good luck Last edited by shep; 2nd April 2010 at 10:10 PM. Reason: corrected link |
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