[Bug 869317] [NEW] Mailman startup script missing --force option.
Public bug reported: I rebooted the VM that mailman was running on, when I tried to start mailman up after the reboot, i got this output: $ mailman -C /etc/mailman.cfg start usage: mailman [-h] [-v] [-C CONFIG] {info,status,help,withlist,start,unshunt,create,stop,remove,lists,reopen,version,import21,inject,members,qfile,restart,aliases} ... mailman: error: A previous run of GNU Mailman did not exit cleanly. Try using --force. Running with the --force option didn't work: $ mailman --force -C /etc/mailman.cfg start usage: mailman [-h] [-v] [-C CONFIG] {info,status,help,withlist,start,unshunt,create,stop,remove,lists,reopen,version,import21,inject,members,qfile,restart,aliases} ... mailman: error: unrecognized arguments: --force ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: mailman3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
OK, the option is not missing, I was using it wrong. However, it still doesn't do anything! $ mailman -C /etc/mailman.cfg start --force usage: mailman [-h] [-v] [-C CONFIG] {info,status,help,withlist,start,unshunt,create,stop,remove,lists,reopen,version,import21,inject,members,qfile,restart,aliases} ... mailman: error: A previous run of GNU Mailman did not exit cleanly. Try using --force. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
I found the acquire_lock method and it seems to honor the force option, so the attached patch has allowed me to get past this stale lock situation. ** Patch added: "869317.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+attachment/2535454/+files/86... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
** Changed in: mailman Milestone: None => 3.0.0b1 ** Changed in: mailman Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mailman Assignee: (unassigned) => Barry Warsaw (barry) ** Changed in: mailman Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
The patch I uploaded doesn't really fix the problem. With that patch, if there is a stale lock file, it raises an AttributeError, then if you run with --force, you get a different error, and then if you try again without the --force option it starts up normally :/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
On Oct 14, 2011, at 06:21 PM, Stephen A. Goss wrote:
The patch I uploaded doesn't really fix the problem. With that patch, if there is a stale lock file, it raises an AttributeError, then if you run with --force, you get a different error, and then if you try again without the --force option it starts up normally :/
I think I have a fix in my local copy, but I'm currently hung up on one particularly nasty test failure.
** Changed in: mailman Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
** Changed in: mailman Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869317 Title: Mailman startup script missing --force option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/869317/+subscriptions
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