[Mailman-Developers] locked - please help

[Dan Mick]

Stop Mailman and disable its cron jobs (if pre-2.1) momentarily, 
then make sure all the Mailman python jobs are stopped, then remove
all the lockfiles and try restarting.


Bradford Shaw wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have addressed this issue with mailman-users but without an results so
> we are now asking you for help in solving this.
> 
> We are having a problem with a large list (12,000) that has become locked
> while uploading members. One of our people were subscribing members using
> the web interface and the list locked with a bug error. We can't seem to
> get the list to work and would like to seek another method than removing
> the list and recreating it. Recreating it will only add confusion to the
> members who have already received welcome letters with passwords -- which
> would become obsolute.
> 
> In looking into the locks directory, we see 82 files similiar to this:
> 
> <site>.lock.loginname.perilpoint.com.54206
> <site>.lock.loginname.perilpoint.com.55962
> 
> istname.lock.loginname.perilpoint.com.10275
> listname.lock.loginname.perilpoint.com.16039
> listname.lock.loginname.perilpoint.com.18389
> 
> We have two questions:
> (1) What do we do with these files? Delete them? ??
> (2) How do we unlock the list so that it will operate again?
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Brad Shaw
> 
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