[Mailman-Users] Problem after moving lists

[Gary M. Suddreth]

I had to copy a list from a dying harddrive to a new installation.  The
files were copied keeping all original permissions. Both systems used
mailman on RedHat 7.3 with the latest update.
check_perms and check_db report everything is fine.  New lists created
on the new machine work fine.  The list from the former machine gets web
errors (Mailman bug) after the logos on all admin screens, and the logs
indicate the following

Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 (12044) Delivery exception:
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 (12044) Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in
do_pipeline
    func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 77, in process
    mlist.Lock()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1341, in Lock
    self.__lock.lock(timeout)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 266, in lock
    raise AlreadyLockedError
AlreadyLockedError:

Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044): Traceback (innermost last):
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner",
line 283, in ?
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):      kids = main(lock)
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner",
line 264, in main
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):      mlist.Save()
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 861, in Save
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):      self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 256, in
CheckHTMLArchiveDir
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):      makelink(privdir, pubdir)
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 42, in makelink
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044):      os.symlink(old, new)
Oct 27 21:08:31 2002 qrunner(12044): OSError :  [Errno 2] No such file
or directory

Any ideas on how to repair this would be appreciated.


Gary M. Suddreth
Coordinator/Instructor  Computer Engineering Tech./Computer Science
Western Piedmont Community College
gms at wp.cc.nc.us