[Mailman-Users] newlist problem

Todd Pfaff pfaff at edge.cis.mcmaster.ca
Wed Dec 1 00:30:37 CET 1999


nevermind, i figured it out.  for some reason, i had to manually remove
the ~mailman/locks/<site>* files.

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Todd Pfaff wrote:

> mailman 1.1
> python 1.5.2
> solaris 2.6
> 
> can anyone tell me what this traceback from the newlist command means?
> newlist used to work fine on this mailman installation.  not sure when it
> stopped working or why.
> 
> myhost% newlist testlist pfaff at edge.cis.mcmaster.ca password
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist", line 146, in ?
>     raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist", line 93, in main
>     newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 728, in Create
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1372, in Lock
>     self.__lock.lock()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 245, in lock
>     os.unlink(self.__tmpfname)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/usr/local/mailman/locks/<site>.lock.myhost.11867'
> 
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