[Users] Claws crashes because it's already running?

[Ricardo Mones]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:00:08 +0000
Graham P Davis <newsboy at scarlet-jade.com> wrote:

> Claws sometimes just freezes for a few minutes and then disappears from
> the screen. The error message that I get when running from the console
> is a little confusing:
> 
> claws.c:102:Starting Claws Mail version Claws Mail 3.13.2
> utils.c:1802:using default rc_dir /home/graham/.claws-mail
> main.c:2177:Using control
> socket /tmp/claws-mail-2000/ca5d42c47df9fea238d06858b40ea873
> main.c:2272:another Claws Mail instance is already running.
> 
> No message as to why it stopped but says it can't start because it
> hasn't stopped? what's that all about? why is it trying to start if it
> hasn't stopped?

Seems it crashed without being able to delete the control socket.

You can remove that /tmp/claws-mail-2000 directory by hand and launch it
from a console under gdb to get a stack trace, see the debugging FAQ¹
for further details.

regards,

¹ http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Debugging_Claws
-- 
  Ricardo Mones
  ~
  Never send a human to do a machine's job.               Agent Smith

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