First check to see if the held files are still in your data directory: /usr/local/mailman/data/heldmsg-....

If they are, go ahead and delete them. Then simply go to the lists configure directory and delete the file request.db: /usr/local/mailman/lists/<listname>/request.db

Version 2.1 of Mailman is superior to version 2.0 in that it will re-create request.db if needed. Before deleting it though, be sure you've removed the heldmsg-files that are in the ../data directory.

Good luck - Jon Carnes

=== On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:58, Karl Berry wrote:

I updated my site (red hat linux 6.2, i686) to mailman 2.1 and python 2.2.2.

Unfortunately, I managed to create a request to the new `mailman' list during the upgrade which ended up in the old format, and is causing cron/checkdbs to fail (see below). At least that's what I gather from the couple of relevant messages I could find about it.

It's just a junk request, and all I want to do is get rid of it so I stop getting the error. Help? Where are the pending_requests stored? How can I view/delete them? Or is there another way to fix?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, karl

Here is the actual error:

bash$ ./cron/checkdbs Traceback (most recent call last): File "./cron/checkdbs", line 136, in ? main() File "./cron/checkdbs", line 80, in main text += '\n' + pending_requests(mlist) File "./cron/checkdbs", line 102, in pending_requests when, addr, fullname, passwd, digest, lang = mlist.GetRecord(id) ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size

First check to see if the held files are still in your data directory: /usr/local/mailman/data/heldmsg-....

If they are, go ahead and delete them. Then simply go to the lists configure directory and delete the file request.db: /usr/local/mailman/lists/<listname>/request.db

Version 2.1 of Mailman is superior to version 2.0 in that it will re-create request.db if needed. Before deleting it though, be sure you've removed the heldmsg-files that are in the ../data directory.

Good luck - Jon Carnes

=== On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:58, Karl Berry wrote:

I updated my site (red hat linux 6.2, i686) to mailman 2.1 and python 2.2.2.

Unfortunately, I managed to create a request to the new `mailman' list during the upgrade which ended up in the old format, and is causing cron/checkdbs to fail (see below). At least that's what I gather from the couple of relevant messages I could find about it.

It's just a junk request, and all I want to do is get rid of it so I stop getting the error. Help? Where are the pending_requests stored? How can I view/delete them? Or is there another way to fix?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, karl

Here is the actual error:

bash$ ./cron/checkdbs Traceback (most recent call last): File "./cron/checkdbs", line 136, in ? main() File "./cron/checkdbs", line 80, in main text += '\n' + pending_requests(mlist) File "./cron/checkdbs", line 102, in pending_requests when, addr, fullname, passwd, digest, lang = mlist.GetRecord(id) ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size