On 6/26/09 6:22 AM, Matthias Schmidt at beta@admilon.net wrote:
Am/On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:02 -0500 schrieb/wrote Larry Stone:
On 6/18/09 7:11 PM, Bryan Harrison at bryan@bryanharrison.com wrote:
I've built and installed Mailman 2.12 from current source code and have it running just fine under OS X Server 10.5.7, with on exception, which is not properly speaking a Mailman problem at all.
If I start Mailman from the CLI, using /usr/share/mailman/bin/ mailmanctl -s start, all is well.
If I allow launchd to start it S<caron>I get an endless succession ofS<caron>
Jun 18 16:50:26 org.list.mailmanctl[1697]: Starting Mailman's master qrunner. Jun 18 16:50:26 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl[1697]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 1698 PPID 1 Python Jun 18 16:50:26 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
Known issue, no idea why. I've been running Mailman on Client OS X since the Tiger days. As soon as I upgraded to Leopard, I started seeing this happen intermittently. I have a launchd plist almost identical to yours.
It is intermittent for me. Probably happens about 1 in 3 boots. I try to remember to check that it's running after reboots. If not, I have a cron job that runs hourly to check for the proper number of qrunners and send me e-mail if any or all are missing.
I have the same issue as Bryan (and my plist looks simular) and find this in my logs, when I start mailman via launchd, if I start it by CLI, I don't see this issue:
Jun 26 20:16:29 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40673]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 26 20:16:29 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40673]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 26 20:16:29 myMac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds Jun 26 20:16:41 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40675]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 26 20:16:41 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40675]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 26 20:16:41 myMac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds Jun 26 20:16:52 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40680]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 26 20:16:52 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40680]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 26 20:16:52 myMac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds Jun 26 20:17:02 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40757]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 26 20:17:02 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40757]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 26 20:17:03 myMac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds Jun 26 20:17:13 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40760]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 26 20:17:13 myMac org.list.mailmanctl[40760]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 26 20:17:13 myMac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
This is not the same issue as Bryan and I have. The log entries you have posted indicate that you are trying to start Mailman twice (the issue Bryan and I have is Mailman dying with the "stray process" message). Perhaps you have two different launchd scripts that try to to start Mailman. Launchd looks in both /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/LaunchDaemons. The former is supposed to be for Apple provided scripts with the latter for user/3rd party application scripts. My "mailman.plist" is in /Library/LaunchDaemons but you should check both and grep for mailmanctl.
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