[Mailman-Developers] can't use mailmanctl -s start

[Fil]

I don't know how to properly set up my system so that mailman restarts after
a crash. I've just experienced one a few minutes ago, and here's the
situation

# /etc/init.d/mailman start
Starting list server: mailman.
The master qrunner lock could not be acquired.  It appears as though there is
a stale master qrunner lock.  Try re-running mailmanctl with the -s flag.

# /home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start
Starting Mailman's master qrunner.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 492, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 364, in main
    lock._transfer_to(pid)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 357, in _transfer_to
    os.link(self.__lockfile, self.__tmpfname)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

# ps aux | grep mailman
mailman    924  0.0  0.3  4440 2968 pts/1    S    11:22   0:00 /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start

So the process has failed but is still running?

By the way, I've set things up so that :

in mm_cfg.py: 
PIDFILE = '/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid'

/var/run/mailman/ is emptied as startup (I've checked, it's empty now, and
permissions seem to be correct:
drwxr-xr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 jan  9 11:15 /var/run/mailman/

I've got a /etc/init.d/mailman script that just does not much more than call
/home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start

(Using the most recent CVS version, I prefer to post this to the -dev list)

-- Fil