Con Wieland wrote:

It seems I have a loop going on but I don't understand the error. I
have multiple similar messages:

It's not a loop.

Here's an excerpt from the /opt/nsp/mailman/logs/error

Dec 16 17:22:02 2009 (817) SHUNTING: 1261012921.337497 +ef91a103dec2273f323d2758d 097a1357db67d3a Dec 16 18:11:34 2009 (817) Uncaught runner exception: invalid load
key, '\245'. Dec 16 18:11:34 2009 (817) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in
_oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in
_onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in
_dispose mlist.ArchiveMail(msg) File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 215, in
ArchiveMail h = HyperArch.HyperArchive(self) File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 641,
in __init__ self.__super_init(dir, reload=1, database=db) File "/opt/nsp/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 300,
in __init__ d = pickle.load(f) UnpicklingError: invalid load key, '\245'.

any help would be appreciated

A list's archives/private/LISTNAME/pipermail.pck file is corrupt. Every post to that list results in the above error and shunting of the message to be archived.

You can do

bin/dumpdb qfiles/shunt/1261012921.337497+ef91a103dec2273f323d2758d.pck

on one or more of the shunted files and that should tell you what list. The messages have probably been successfully added to archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox, and that affects what to do.

After you determine the list, stop Mailman. Then copy aside the archives/private/LISTNAME/ directory and it's contents just in case somethin goes wrong at the next step. Then do

bin/arch --wipe listname

to rebuild the archive. Then you can start Mailman. Then you want to examine the messages in the qfiles/shunt/*.pck files with bin/dumpdb or bin/show_qfiles. They are probably in the rebuilt archive. For those that are, remove the .pck file. If any aren't in the archive, leave them in qfiles/shunt and run bin/unshunt after deleting the others.

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