[Mailman-Developers] 2.1b2 error after reboot

[Luigi Rosa]

Hello,
half an hour ago I suffered an unscheduled power outage, when my Linux (RH
7.3) rebooted, I had to correct an unlinked i-node in /tmp file system
(apparently a .pid file).

The qrunner deamon did not start and reported this error:
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040): Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 501, in ?
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):      main()
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 351, in main
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):      lock = acquire_lock(force)
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 202, in acquire_lock
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):      lock = acquire_lock_1(force)
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 196, in acquire_lock_1
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040):      os.unlink(tempfile)
Jul 24 16:34:34 2002 mailmanctl(1040): OSError :  [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'master-qrunner.mail.hypertrek.info.25776'

Then I did a

     # service mailman stop

and mailman logged this

Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): No child with pid: 25776
Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): [Errno 3] No such process 
Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): Stale pid file removed. 

after that I did a

     # service mailman start

and everything was Ok.


This could be a serious issue in case of unattended machines, is there a
solution for this error?



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Best regards,
 Luigi                          mailto:lrosa@mail.hypertrek.info