Ubuntu Linux FAQs

There’s some futility at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t 65461 seems to indicate this a bug because I’m using, for me, LXDE and not GNOME. Looking for workarounds. Full example below:


thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ mail WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn’t connect to: /tmp/keyring-4P8aOP/pkcs11:
No such file or directory Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/thufir: Permission denied No mail for thufir thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll /var/mail/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 16 12:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 15 02:20 ../
-rw——- 1 root mail 0 Nov 16 12:25 root thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll /var/mail/
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 3 root mail 4096 Nov 16 15:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 15 02:20 ../
-rw——- 1 root mail 0 Nov 16 12:25 root drwxr-sr-x 2 thufir mail 4096 Nov 16 15:11 thufir/
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ mail WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn’t connect to: /tmp/keyring-4P8aOP/pkcs11:
No such file or directory Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/thufir: Is a directory No mail for thufir thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll /var/mail/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 16 15:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 15 02:20 ../
-rw——- 1 root mail 0 Nov 16 12:25 root
-rw-r–r– 1 thufir mail 0 Nov 16 15:12 thufir thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ mail WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn’t connect to: /tmp/keyring-4P8aOP/pkcs11:
No such file or directory No mail for thufir thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$



thanks,

Thufir

root mail, root root, Thufir

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