[Mailman-Users] error trying to unsubscribe

[Dan Mick]

You interrupted it while it was waiting for the list lock.
If it seems to be waiting a *long* time (like more than 5 minutes,
say) maybe you have a stale lock.  Check ~mailman/locks, and check to
see that the processes that got them (their PID is in the filename)
are gone or not; if they're gone, remove the lock files and try again.

Steve Lee wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to unsubscribe around 300 users
> off a mailling list using a text file list
> of users with the remove_members command and
> i get this error.
> 
> remove_members -f remove_list.txt listname
> any ideas ?  before setting up mailman
> i tested this feature and it worked.
> now when i'm really in need of this feature
> it does not work .
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "bin/remove_members", line 128, in ?
>     main()
>   File "bin/remove_members", line 106, in main
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 77, in __init__
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1338, in Lock
>     self.__lock.lock(timeout)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 286, in lock
>     self.__sleep()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 424, in __sleep
>     time.sleep(interval)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> 
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