movemail fails to get lock

From	Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	movemail fails to get lock
Date	2022-02-18 17:40 +0100
Message-ID	<DSesy-2GTN-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider

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After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within
emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail.  I've added some
switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing;
currently I've got
'(vm-movemail-program-switches '("-vvv" "--debug-level=99" "--debug-line-info"))

When I try to fetch my mail with these switches, I get the messages

movemail: mboxrd.c:89: mboxrd_mailbox_init_stream:mu_mapfile_stream_create (/home/joseph/INBOX.crash): No such file or directory
movemail: mboxrd.c:96: mboxrd_mailbox_init_stream:mu_file_stream_create (/home/joseph/INBOX.crash): Success
movemail: mailbox `/home/joseph/INBOX.crash': cannot lock: Lock file check failed

movemail exited with code 1

in the *output of movemail /var/mail/joseph /home/joseph/INBOX.crash* buffer.

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong here? Much googling has
not given me any ideas...

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movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-18 17:40 +0100
  Re: movemail fails to get lock Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-18 18:40 +0100
    Re: movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100
  Re: movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100

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