[Mailman-Users] In a pickle

[Jon Carnes]

Sounds bad kemosabee. The backup is the way to go.  You might be able to
use "strings config.pck" and get a string dump of the file that has some
helpful information.

Good Luck!

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:04, Simon White wrote:
> 08-Dec-03 at 11:51, Jon Carnes (jonc at nc.rr.com) wrote :
> > Do you have a config.pck.last for that list?  Try renaming your current
> > config.pck and copy over the config.pck.last and see if that works.
> 
> I didn't have a config.pck at all, I did cp -r config.pck.last to get
> the one I currently have. 
> 
> > If so, then you have a corrupt config.pck file and "check_db" should
> > have been able to fix this.
> 
> sd25:/usr/local/mailman/bin# ./check_db List-Name
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./check_db", line 153, in ?
>     main()
>   File "./check_db", line 121, in main
>     mlist = MailList(listname, lock=0)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 124, in __init__
>     self.Load()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 583, in Load
>     dict, e = self.__load(file)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 556, in __load
>     dict = loadfunc(fp)
> cPickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, ''.
> 
> Here's the directory listing:
> 
> > > /usr/local/mailman/lists/listname# ls -l
> > > -rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman   1843200 Dec  6 09:08 config.pck.last
> > > -rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman   1670681 Sep 10 16:02 config.pck.safety
> > > -rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman        29 Dec  5 08:00 request.db
> > > (I recreated the config.pck by copying config.pck.last; didn't make any
> > > difference).
> 
> So... I can't use config.pck.safety it's too old and unsubscribers will
> go crazy. I have a backup somewhere that's more recent though, I could
> go get that, but I'm worried about check_db spewing that error about
> invalid load key...