[Mailman-Users] 'unpack list of wrong size'

[Nemeth Krisztian]

Hello Everyone,

First of all, I am sorry my question has already been addressed before: the
archives are too long to search them manually, and the advertised automatic
searching is just not working.

So my question is: something is wrong with my Mailman installation I guess,
as the Cron Daemon keeps sending me error-mails ending te following way:

  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 96, in __read
    pid, winner = string.split(string.strip(fp.read()))
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
Exception exceptions.ValueError: 'unpack list of wrong size' in <method
FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 80b8360> ignored

The file ~mailman/logs/error is full with these lines:
...
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file
/home/mailman/data/mm_q.20815.1 failed:
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue:       exceptions.EOFError  / EOF read
where object expected 
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file
/home/mailman/data/mm_q.10552.1 failed:
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue:       exceptions.EOFError  / EOF read
where object expected 
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file
/home/mailman/data/mm_q.11068.1 failed:
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue:       exceptions.EOFError  / EOF read
where object expected 
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file
/home/mailman/data/mm_q.11076.1 failed:
Sep 25 12:42:00 2000 processQueue:       exceptions.EOFError  / EOF read
where object expected 

Some more information, maybe it helps to find the problem:
[mailman at soha data]$ ls -la
total 4
drwxrwsr-x   2 nemeth_k mailman      1024 Sep 25 02:59 ./
drwxrwsr-x  16 mailman  mailman      1024 Nov  1  1999 ../
-rw-r-----   1 mailman  mailman        13 Nov  1  1999 adm.pw
-rw-rw----   1 mail     mailman         0 Mar  3  2000 mm_q.10552.1
-rw-rw----   1 mail     mailman         0 Mar  3  2000 mm_q.11068.1
-rw-rw----   1 mail     mailman         0 Mar  3  2000 mm_q.11076.1
-rw-rw----   1 mail     mailman         0 Feb 10  2000 mm_q.20815.1
-rw-rw----   1 mail     mailman         0 Nov  4  1999 mm_q.3409.1
-rw-rw-r--   1 nemeth_k mailman        24 Aug  5 03:35
pending_subscriptions.db

and ~mailman/locks has plenty of lines like this:
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.7281
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.20726
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.7284
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.20731
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.7337
mmqueue_run.lock.soha.ttt.bme.hu.23814
...
and so on, all together 58 files like these... (Can I just delete them?)

Can somebody please help?

Best regards,
Krisztian Nemeth