[Mailman-Users] [mailman hit by a bug error in 2.0.8]

[Jon Carnes]

You might consider upgrading to version 2.0.13...

It's been quite awhile since I played with 2.0.8, but it looks like a
locking problem. You might want to check for any older lock files that
are still in the ~mailman/locks directory. If there are, the lock files
have the number of the running process as part of their name.  

You can use "ps -ax |grep <number>" to try and find the process that
created the lock file.  If you do not find the process, delete the lock
file.

Also, as a long-shot, you might want to run
  ~mailman/bin/check_perms -f
to make sure that the rights for your locks directory is setup properly.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes


On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:38, Ganeshh wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I had a server crashed yesterday and i recovered my mail server running 
> on exim with mailman 2.0.8  which has over 50 mailing list.
> 
> There was too many mails in the mailman queue and i ran them manually 
> and cleared. Since its a moderated list, when i got to the web interface 
> for approval i get the following error
> 
> 
>     Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8
> 
> 
>       We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> 
> Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of 
> traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, 
> but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> 
> 
> hen i looked into the error file, the error message is as below
> 
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985): Traceback (most recent call last):
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ?
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):      kids = main(lock)
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 195, in main
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):      lock.refresh()
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 204, in refresh
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985):      raise NotLockedError
> Oct 03 18:10:02 2003 qrunner(17985): Mailman.LockFile . NotLockedError  
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082): Traceback (most recent call last):
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):   File "/home/mailman//cron/qrunner", line 282, in ?
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):      kids = main(lock)
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):   File "/home/mailman//cron/qrunner", line 195, in main
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):      lock.refresh()
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 204, in refresh
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082):      raise NotLockedError
> Oct 03 18:10:05 2003 qrunner(18082): Mailman.LockFile . NotLockedError  
> Oct 03 18:10:06 2003 qrunner(18092): Traceback (most recent call last):
> Oct 03 18:10:06 2003 qrunner(18092):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 275, in ?
> Oct 03 18:10:06 2003 qrunner(18092):      lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
> Oct 03 18:10:06 2003 qrunner(18092):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 272, in lock
> 
> how do i resolve this problem, am actually struck here...
> 
> THanks in advance
> Regards
> Ganeshh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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