[Bug 2287] New: Error updating Free Agent message list ("rename primary: File already exists")

[Wine Bugs]

Forte Free Agent error saving database file ("rename primary: File already exists")
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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2287

Summary: Error updating Free Agent message list ("rename primary:
                    File already exists")
                    Forte Free Agent error saving database file ("rename
                    primary: File already exists")
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20040505
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/download.php
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

When Free Agent downloads new message headers, it sometimes produces an error
dialog with a message of the form "Unable to save changes to database file
[something.IDX, depending on the newsgroup being updated] (rename primary: File
already exists)".  The error seems to occur more often when the application has
been open for a long time and/or in relatively heavy use.  The message list for
the group generally appears corrupted afterward, and usually can't be updated
successfully after the error occurs unless the application is first restarted. 
This happens with Wine 20040408 and 20040505 on Fedora Core 2; it doesn't appear
to happen with Wine 20040309 or Fedora Core 1.

I generated a log file documenting one instance of the error; the steps used
(YMMV, unfortunately) were:

(1) Started Free Agent on FC2, using Wine 20040505 compiled with a patch that
allows the use of the F12 key to toggle tracing (the error occurs without the
patch, but the log file is too large then).  Specifically, the following
commands were entered on a KDE Konsole command line, in the directory containing
agent.exe:

export WINEDELAY=1
export WINEDEBUG=+relay
setarch i686 wine agent.exe &> wine.log

(2) Downloaded all message headers for alt.os.linux.redhat,
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent, comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, and
linux.redhat.misc.

(3) Marked all the headers in the above four groups for retrieval, pressed the
"get marked message bodies" button, and waited for the messages to download.

(4) Posted a couple of messages.

(5) Pressed F12 to turn on tracing; then selected Free Agent's option to
retrieve new messages for the four groups.  Shortly afterward, the error dialog
appeared.

(6) Pressed F12 again to turn off logging.

Besides the error message dialog, the other strange thing I noticed was this
line in the directory listing (output of "ls -l"), which was there after the
test but not before:

?---------  ? ?        ?              ?            ? 000011b1.bid

All the other lines output by "ls -l" showed apparently normal attributes
instead of question marks.