[Mailman-Users] Can't lock a list

[Dwight A. Ernest]

Environment: mm 2.1.5, python 2.2.3, rhel es3 u2

(I've searched FAQ for this, in vain...)

On a list (called reach-l), which has a very large archive mbox, I just
tried to do

	$prefix/bin/arch --wipe reach-l

It got several hundred messages in and then blew up with a segmentation
fault. Reading a bit deeper, I see that perhaps I should have specified
some reasonable -s and -e values to limit the memory usage, but
hindsight is 20:20.

Since then, I've been unable to get a lock on the list. When I try, e.g,

	$prefix/bin/arch -s 1 -e 499 --wipe reach-l

...it just hangs. When I interrupt (^C), I see:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/mailman/bin/arch", line 189, in ?
     main()
   File "/var/mailman/bin/arch", line 141, in main
     mlist = MailList(listname)
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 126, in __init__
     self.Lock()
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock
     self.__lock.lock(timeout)
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 312, in lock
     self.__sleep()
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 496, in __sleep
     time.sleep(interval)
KeyboardInterrupt

...which I believe I can reproduce in its most simple case with this:

[mailman at lists reach-l]$ /var/mailman/bin/withlist reach-l
Loading list reach-l (unlocked)
The variable `m' is the reach-l MailList instance
>>> m.Lock()

[it just hangs until I ^C, then:]

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<console>", line 1, in ?
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock
     self.__lock.lock(timeout)
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 312, in lock
     self.__sleep()
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 496, in __sleep
     time.sleep(interval)
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> m.Unlock()
>>>
Finalizing
[mailman at lists reach-l]$

How can I clean things up for this list such that service code that
wants to, can get a lock on the list?

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