[Mailman-Users] Lock Problom.

[Scott Russell]

Silly question. Looks like Mailman is trying to remove a file it thinks is there but is not.
What happens if you "touch /home/mailman/locks/<listname>.lock" where <listname> is the name
of your list then retry the command that generated the error?

The lock file you create is most certainly invalid but since Mailman is trying to 'unlink' aka
remove it anyway... *shrug*

-- Scott


On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:44:41PM -0800, Eric Gus wrote:
> No help here..just another instance.
> 
> Somewhere during my upgrade from 1.0rc1 to 1.1 I botched a few things so I
> killed the directory and untarred my old install and I'm gotting the lock
> errors now too.  Also, from admin.cgi I click on one of my lists and it says
> the list is non-existant and displays a debug page.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy Hillman
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:55 AM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Lock Problom.
> 
> 
> I get this error every once in awhile.
> The server is FreeBSD 3.2
> Does anyone know of any file locking issues using mailman with FreeBSD.
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post sys_admin"
>     (expanded from: sys_admin)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ?
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1])
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__
>     self.Load()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 804, in Load
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1373, in Lock
>     self.__lock.lock()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 203, in lock
>     self.__kickstart(force=1)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 117, in
> __kickstart
>     os.unlink(self.__lockfile)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> 
> 
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