[Mailman-Users] mailmanctl start fails with bad marshal data

[Jon Carnes]

A file or database that it is trying to process has some bad data in it,
which indicates that the file or database is corrupt (or there is a bug
in Mailman).

I had this problem once in version 2.1.1 on a test server after my 4
year old turned it off (not shutdown, just turned off).

Can you run check_db on your lists?  

If that doesn't resolve the problem, try removing all files from the
queues (~mailman/qfiles/*/..).

If that doesn't resolve the problem, get rid of any request.db files in
your list's home directories (~mailman/lists/<listname>/..) and delete
any heldmsg* files in ~mailman/data/..

If that still doesn't resolve the problem then one of your binaries
might have become corrupt - reinstall.  

My problem was that a binary file had become corrupt (I play with my
test install *alot*). Fortunately I do my installs from source, so I
simply went back to my source files and did a "make install" and that
fixed my problem.  

Good Luck - Jon Carnes
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On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 09:15, Feczak Szabolcs wrote:
> What does that supposed to mean, in human language ?
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ?
> main()
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2/bin/qrunner", line 230, in main
> qrunner.run()
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2//Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 59, in run
> filecnt = self._oneloop()
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2//Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 88, in _oneloop
> msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase)
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2//Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 144, in dequeue
> data = self._ext_read(dbfile)
> File "/usr/local/stow/mailman-2.1.2//Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 246, in _ext_read
> dict = marshal.load(fp)
> ValueError: bad marshal data
> 
> Thanks: