..A. Rick Anderson wrote:
Whenever I attempt to access mail from root, it pauses, then dies with the following error message.
fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Aborted You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
Perhaps /var/spool/mail/root lives on one of the bad disk blocks that SMART is complaining about?
Can you copy /var/spool/mail/root to another file and then open it with "Mail -f filename"?
Tried moving it to /root/mail and then opened it with the -f command. I got the exact same error. However, since I had "moved" the mail file, that effectively meant that the original file under /var/spool/mail was now gone.
Running a simple mail gave me the expected "no mail" message, but exited gracefully. I am assuming the mail file was corrupted somehow.
-- A. Rick Anderson
