[Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT (fixed)

[Merle Reine]

Thanks to the help of Jon Carnes, I was able to get mailman up and 
running again.

If any of you need any assistance, I suggest you contact Jon as he is 
very knowledgeable and professional and knows mailman.

It looks to have been a corrupted incoming message in the 
/var/lib/mailman/qfile/in directory.  I could not have fixed this 
without Jon's expert knowledge.

Thanks also to those that pointed me in the direction of the lock files.

Thanks Jon.

Merle

Jon Carnes wrote:

>Good call.  Some systems run through a security check on boot and reset
>permissions.
>
>My guess is that the reboot caused a file being written to in one his
>queues to be incomplete or corrupt.
>
>(of course - we're all just dancing in the dark...)
>
>Jon Carnes
>
>On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:56, Richard Barrett wrote:
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>>On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:47, Merle Reine wrote:
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>>>Sorry for not giving more information, I am completely stressed.
>>>
>>>I have mailman v 2.1.x and qrunner is running.  In 
>>>/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt it is full of files.  They appear to be 
>>>filling up there.  Any Ideas?
>>>
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>>If messages are being shunted, are you certain that nothing is being 
>>written to $prefix/logs/error; that is what I would expect to be 
>>happening with shunts. If not is it possible that the permissions of 
>>the logs directory have gotten screwed up? It might be worth running 
>>check_perms to see if that makes any difference. Aside from that ...
>>
>>btw: what was the reason for the reboot? Any possibility of the cause 
>>being something that has  affected MM's operation?
>>
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>>>Richard Barrett wrote:
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>>>>On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:19, Merle Reine wrote:
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>>>>>my mailing lists have been working for many month and all of a 
>>>>>sudden after a reboot, fail to send.  I get no errors and in the 
>>>>>/var/log/mail is shows:
>>>>>
>>>>>Feb  3 14:10:40 mail postfix/local[12282]: 8C5AD18EC02: 
>>>>>to=<alert at lindows.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent 
>>>>>("|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post alert")
>>>>>
>>>>>I is sending to the list but the list is not sending out to the 
>>>>>recipients.  This is urgent, anyone have any ideas?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>You do not say what version of MM you are running but:
>>>>
>>>>If MM 2.0.x: is the mailman user's crontab installed and executing 
>>>>the qrunner?
>>>>
>>>>If MM 2.1.x: has $prefix/bin/mailmanctl been executed to start the 
>>>>qrunners and is the mailman user's crontab installed?
>>>>
>>>>In either version case are files accumulating under the 
>>>>$prefix/qfiles directory?
>>>>
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>>>>
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