I have been using mailman for a while now about 1 year or so. I have never had any problems except about 1 week ago. I went to approve some messages on our system (was 2.0.05) and when I clicked on the "Tend to pending administrative requests" link, I get the "Were sorry we hit a bug message". I checked the error logs and I am getting "bad marshal data" errors on the Hold.py and ListAdmin.py.

I updated to versio 2.0.13 because I saw some people fixed this problem by doing this, but still get the same error. I also rebuild the offending database.

Here is the messages from the error logs:

Oct 02 12:55:02 2002 (3429) Delivery exception: bad marshal data Oct 02 12:55:02 2002 (3429) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 159, in process hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NotExplicitlyAllowed) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 218, in hold_for_approval mlist.HoldMessage(msg, reason, msgdata) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 145, in HoldMessage self.__opendb() File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 69, in __opendb self.__db = marshal.load(fp) ValueError: bad marshal data

This is a production system (redhat 7.1 with postfix) so, I need to get it back functioning properly ASAP. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks.

-- Ken Carson Heavy