[Users] Error creating socket_dir /tmp/claws-mail-1001: No such file or directory

[Luc GMail]

I am on Debian 9.

Six years old is not that much. People already used email, claws and Debian
six years ago, it's not the Stone Age we are talking about.

The concept of "support" is debatable. I would call "support" asking claws
mail to change the software to fix some problem I have.
I am not asking that. I am asking if anyone has any idea why the problem
happens (on one kernel but not the other) and if there could be some kind
of workaround to get past it. Creating the directory manually doesn't work.
The error is not completely unknown, it can be found on Google, but none of
the search hits was helpful in my case.

I really resent the general attitude that people have towards me because I
am using old software. One, I have at least a dozen Windows programs from
the 90s (all binary, no source) that I use on Wine almost every day. It's
such a shame that Linux can't get anywhere near providing that kind of
durability. Two, everybody acts like some attorney looking for reasons to
acquit or convict rather than someone who has any interest in helping. I
imagine these people responding to a parent whose child has fallen into a
well. "Yeah, that's too bad, but there was a sign warning children not to
come near the well and your child is old enough to read, so I'm afraid he
is going to die." Or "Well, we have this length of rope here, but it's only
15 feet and the well is 18 foot deep so yeah, he is going to die." Doesn't
seem reasonable at all to me. Neither is it reasonable to assume that
someone who comes here to ask for this kind of help can "Compare the
kernels." It's like asking for help with some vehicle malfunction and being
told to take the car apart.




On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 6:41 AM Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:50:57 -0300
> Luc GMail <lucmove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use an old version of claws mail (3.14.1) on an old distro. I cannot
> > upgrade my distro or claws mail.
> >
> > On one of the kernels I have, it works fine. On the other, I get this
> error:
> >
> > $ claws-mail
> > /tmp/claws-mail-1001: mkdir: No such file or directory
> > Error creating socket_dir /tmp/claws-mail-1001: No such file or directory
> >
> > Does anyone here know why this happens and how to fix it?
>
> For a start, you haven't given us much to go on. For example, which distro
> and
> version.
>
> You dropped by asking this question on IRC but didn't wait for an answer.
> On
> IRC you seemed to be connecting as root. Maybe this is related to your
> problem.
>
> Since you say it works with one kernel but not another, then it looks like
> that is where the solution will lie. Compare the kernels.
>
> Anyway, Claws Mail 3.14.1 is 6 (six!) years old and you cannot expect
> support for such an old version.
>
> with regards
>
> Paul
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