Popup in Outlook and webmail:
Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)
I have a Courier IMAP+SASL+Maildrop+Postfix+MySQL setup.
I don’t know what the root problem is; I just know things have been working until recently updating the system (which inevitably broke something).
root@node1:# apt-cache search fam gamin gamin - File and directory monitoring system libgamin-dev - Development files for the gamin client library libgamin0 - Client library for the gamin file and directory monitoring system python-gamin - Python binding for the gamin client library kdelibs4c2a - core libraries and binaries for all KDE applications root@node1:# apt-get install gamin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: sensible-mda tnef sendmail-cf sendmail-base daemon libnet-cidr-lite-perl clamav-daemon Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libgamin0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data shared-mime-info The following packages will be REMOVED: libfam0 The following NEW packages will be installed: gamin libgamin0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data shared-mime-info 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 32 not upgraded. Need to get 3072 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libglib2.0-0 amd64 2.24.2-1 [1122 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libgamin0 amd64 0.1.10-2+b1 [42.3 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main gamin amd64 0.1.10-2+b1 [72.9 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libglib2.0-data all 2.24.2-1 [994 kB] Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main shared-mime-info amd64 0.71-4 [841 kB] Fetched 3072 kB in 2s (1085 kB/s) dpkg: libfam0: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: courier-base depends on libfam0. courier-imap depends on libfam0. (Reading database ... 31853 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libfam0 ... Selecting previously deselected package libglib2.0-0. (Reading database ... 31845 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libglib2.0-0 (from .../libglib2.0-0_2.24.2-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgamin0. Unpacking libgamin0 (from .../libgamin0_0.1.10-2+b1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gamin. Unpacking gamin (from .../gamin_0.1.10-2+b1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libglib2.0-data. Unpacking libglib2.0-data (from .../libglib2.0-data_2.24.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package shared-mime-info. Unpacking shared-mime-info (from .../shared-mime-info_0.71-4_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libglib2.0-0 (2.24.2-1) ... Setting up libglib2.0-data (2.24.2-1) ... Setting up shared-mime-info (0.71-4) ... Setting up gamin (0.1.10-2+b1) ... Setting up libgamin0 (0.1.10-2+b1) ... root@node1:# /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart Stopping Courier IMAP server: imapd. Starting Courier IMAP server: imapd. root@node1:# /etc/init.d/courier-imap courier-imap courier-imap-ssl root@node1:# /etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart Stopping Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl. Starting Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl. root@node1:# dpkg -l |grep -i libfam|gamin ii gamin 0.1.10-2+b1 File and directory monitoring system rc libfam0 2.7.0-17 Client library to control the FAM daemon ii libgamin0 0.1.10-2+b1 Client library for the gamin file and directory monitoring system
libfam0:
Description: Client library to control the FAM daemon
FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications
of changes.
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This package provides a shared library to allow programs to connect to
the FAM daemon and ask for files to be monitored.
Homepage: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
gamin
Description: File and directory monitoring system
Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system which allows
applications to detect when a file or a directory has been added,
removed or modified by somebody else.
.
It can be used by desktops like KDE, GNOME or Xfce to have their
virtual file systems keep track of changes to files and directories.
For example, if a file manager displays a directory to the user, and
the user removes one of the files via the command-line, gamin will
notify the file manager of this change so that it can update the
directory display.
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Gamin has been designed as a drop-in replacement for FAM with security
and maintainability in mind and can use Linux’s advanced inotify
service when available.
All I know is things work again. I’ll dig into this some other day. In with the new out with the old.