[Mailman-Developers] Lock file problems in 2.0b2...

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0400, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> Trolling in the archives seems to indicate this is a lock 
> timeout issue.  Will upgrading to the soon-to-be-released 
> production 2.0 fix this?

Locking was written almost entirely somewhere between 2.0b2 and 2.0b3. b3
had a fair number of bugs of its own, but b4 is pretty stable. The new
locking mechanism should produce a lot less problems.

>     self.__kickstart(force=1)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 138, in 
> __kickstart
>     os.unlink(self.__lockfile)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman
> /locks/sf-brief.lock'
> 554 "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner sf-brief"... 
> unknown mailer error 1

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