[Mailman-Users] What does this mean?

[bilbrey at orbdesigns.com]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:40:05PM -0400, Jonathan Andrew Sheen wrote:
> 
> What does this error mean? Where do I look to fix it?
> 
> Aug 21 16:38:03 2001 (30344) Could not acquire qrunner lock

aside from the mailman-users archives at

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/

you might try a google search on "qrunner lock"

My best guess (a stab in the dark) is that at some point Mailman
died badly, leaving... the qrunner.lock file behind, blocking
qrunner from following its appointed rounds.

Since that's my guess, I'd have a look at the code for qrunner,
which shows me:

QRUNNER_LOCK_FILE = os.path.join(mm_cfg.LOCK_DIR, 'qrunner.lock')

So, in $MAILMAN_DIR/Mailman/, I have a look at Defaults.py, since I
am unlikely to have set up a modified version of LOCK_DIR...

LOCK_DIR        = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, 'locks')
and
VAR_PREFIX      = '/www/htdocs/orb/mailman/'

so, I look in  $MAILMAN_DIR/locks (in my case
/www/htdocs/orb/mailman/locks), and it's empty. If yours contains a
qrunner.lock file that is aging, then you might try deleting that
file and see what it buys you.

Best of luck,

.brian

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