GNU bug report logs - #17706
24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Olum <kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 17706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Olum <kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17706: 24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:09:50 -0400

To reproduce:

Start with some messages in your RMAIL file, but no new mail waiting to
be copied from your inbox.

emacs -Q
M-x rmail
e
Type space, backspace, so that buffer is modified.

Then, somewhere else:

emacs -Q
M-x rmail
Get error "RMAIL file RMAIL is locked"

                                        Ken
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