Re: Emails getting stuck in "mess" queue...

"Pritchie" <nntp2003@pritchie.com.nospam> writes:

> So far I've discovered the following....
> The messages that get stuck always have an inode number 357123 to 357157.
>
> ./mess/2/357123, ./mess/4/357125, ./mess/7/357128, ./mess/3/357147,
> ./mess/4/357125, ./mess/12/357156, ./mess/10/357131, /mess/13/357134,
> ./mess/14/357135, ./mess/20/357141

You either have disk h/w problems or a corrupt filesystem.

> fsck gives me the following
>
>[lots of errors on /var]

Shut down to single-user mode, unmount the /var filesystem, run fsck
to fix it. If the problem recurs, you're probably losing the disk.

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