Catherine Maxwell wrote:
At 11:22 PM 9/29/2006, Mark Sapiro wrote:
What does bin/dumpdb lists/listname/config.pck report? (You can elide all the membership info. In fact, if you get a reasonable looking report, you can just compare it to that of another list to verify that it looks good.)
[----- start pickle file -----] [----- end pickle file -----]
All of the reports look fine except the program won't identify that the list exists. Conclusion: corrupted config.pck.
If you are saying that the two lines
[----- start pickle file -----] [----- end pickle file -----]
were the entire output from bin/dumpdb, then I agree that config.pck was corrupt.
So I dug around and found a old config.pck for that list from last year and saved it to the lists/listname directory and -- wonders of wonders -- the list's webpages are all back including members and archives. The configuration needs to be updated but everything else is there. :) Now on to enjoy the rest of my weekend.
You previously wrote:
These are the files that are on the server:
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 216198 Sep 29 00:41 config.pck -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 93225 Oct 3 2005 config.pck.bak -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 216192 Sep 29 00:41 config.pck.last -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 27421 Sep 28 20:04 digest.mbox -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 11615 Sep 29 00:41 pending.pck -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 6430 Sep 29 00:41 request.pck
Is the config.pck.bak from Oct 3 2005 the one you used, or did you find one more recent than that?
I would be concerned about 2 things. The Oct 3 2005 file is less than half the size of the 'current' files. This is probably because that file has a lot fewer list members.
Also, the Sept 29 config.pck and config.pck.last are 6 bytes different in size. This suggests to me that the config.pck.last was successfully accessed and updated to produce the corrupt config.pck. Thus, I am surprised that it too is corrupt, but it does appear to be. Possibly your power outage caused the corruption 'outside' of Mailman - maybe some disk cache didn't get flushed.
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