[Mailman-Users] Mailman Bug?

[Mark Symonds]

Hi,

Trying to figure this one out.

Twice now in the past month, a mailing list has
died here.  You cannot login to the administrative
interface and posts go into into a logjam.

>From the logs I see:

[root at tx mailman]# tail error
NotLockedError:

Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): Traceback (innermost last):
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ?
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):      kids = main(lock)
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 262, in main
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):      dequeue(root)
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 184, in dequeue
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147):      os.unlink(root + '.db')
Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): OSError :  [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/spool/mailman/qfiles/bd017b27880b174879a46d4f624c8e2cce1a5399.db'
[root at tx mailman]#

and

[root at tx mailman]# tail qrunner
Aug 02 16:49:02 2003 (28748) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:50:03 2003 (28820) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:51:02 2003 (28830) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:52:02 2003 (28847) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:53:03 2003 (28905) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:54:02 2003 (28939) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:55:04 2003 (29006) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:56:03 2003 (29123) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:57:03 2003 (29138) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Aug 02 16:58:02 2003 (29145) Could not acquire qrunner lock
[root at tx mailman]#

...any ideas?  I've been able to get around it by going into
/var/spool/mailman/qfiles and deleting what's in there.  This
"resets" things, but it also results in a few posts getting lost.

What would cause it to bail like this?  Any other information
you need, let me know and I'll post it.

-- 
Mark