[asterisk-users] Voicemail .lock- files voicemail box not accessible

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

JR Richardson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Strange issue, recently I started getting a lot of .lock files in the
> voicemail /INBOX folder preventing proper access to voicemail.  I can
> delete the .lock files and everything is normal.  After searching
> around, I found some SIP lock file stuff but nothing specific to
> voicemail.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this?  I'm
> runnning 1.2.9 on Debian Sarge.

The only time I've ever seen this is if you are running out of disk 
space on the partition voicemail is stored on.  I imagine this could 
also happen if Asterisk crashed while someone was leaving voicemail.