gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has been sent

gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has been sent

[m_venkateshkumar]

>Number:         186
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has been sent
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 02 00:04:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Net
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux neat 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686 unknown
>Description:
I create a PR using the send-pr program. I can see that this PR gets queued in the gnats-queue directory.
When I run queue-pr --run, the sender and the person responsible get the mail.
But, the PR DOES NOT get removed from the gnats-queue directory, and stays there, but this time, with another uniquely generated file name.
Because of this, the same PR is being sent to the person responsible for many many times. 
In my machine, I was not present for 5 days, and the entire disk became full because of this problem!!

Can somebody tell me why this is happening?
>How-To-Repeat:
Dont know. This condition was not happening for about 3 days after I installed GNATS. This problem suddenly started appearing since 5 days. 
Now, whenever I do a send-pr, this problem is occuring.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

Re: gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has been sent

[Yngve Svendsen]

The following reply was made to PR gnats/186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: m_venkateshkumar@mindtree.com,gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has
  been sent
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:11:04 +0200

 At 06:58 02.05.2001 +0000, m_venkateshkumar@mindtree.com wrote:
 > >Description:
 >I create a PR using the send-pr program. I can see that this PR gets 
 >queued in the gnats-queue directory.
 >When I run queue-pr --run, the sender and the person responsible get the mail.
 >But, the PR DOES NOT get removed from the gnats-queue directory, and stays 
 >there, but this time, with another uniquely generated file name.
 >Because of this, the same PR is being sent to the person responsible for 
 >many many times.
 >In my machine, I was not present for 5 days, and the entire disk became 
 >full because of this problem!!
 >
 >Can somebody tell me why this is happening?
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >Dont know. This condition was not happening for about 3 days after I 
 >installed GNATS. This problem suddenly started appearing since 5 days.
 >Now, whenever I do a send-pr, this problem is occuring.
 
 Off the top of my head, I would suggest you check whether someone changed 
 any of the involved mail aliases -- you seem to have a loop in there somewhere.
 
 Yngve Svendsen
 IS Engineer
 Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
 yngve.svendsen@clustra.com