[Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman 2.1.4

[Myron Kowalski]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Myron Kowalski wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> Myron Kowalski wrote:
>>
>>> One of my users sent me this message that he got when he tried to
>>> approve a message to
>>> his list. As far as I can tell, all my other lists, including his,
>>> are
>>> working well. Any help on
>>> what I should be looking for?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4
>>>
>>> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>>>
>>> If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a
>>> copy
>>> of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of
>>> what
>>> happened. Thanks!
>>> Traceback:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/users/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
>>>  main()
>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 166, in main
>>>  if not mlist.NumRequestsPending():
>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 147, in
>>> NumRequestsPending
>>>  self.__opendb()
>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 82, in __opendb
>>>  self.__db = marshal.load(fp)
>>> MemoryError
>>
>>
>> The CGI process is being denied sufficient memory for Python to load
>> the date from lists/<listname>/request.db.
>>
>> My best guess is this file is huge and there are many held messages
>> for
>> this list.
>>
>> Look in Mailman's data/ directory for files named heldmsg-<listname>-
>> *.
>> If there are lots, delete some of the oldest ones with
>>
>> bin/delete data/heldmsg...
>>
>> Use bin/delete instead of just rm so that they will also be removed
>> from request.db.
>>
>> If you can't get request.db down to a manageable size in this way,  
>> you
>> may just have to rm it and start over, but this will lose all current
>> requests from the admindb interface.
>>
>
> There was only one message
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman     2295 Feb 12 17:39 heldmsg-net-
> avengers-3.pck
>
> and the request.db was rather small.
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      119 Oct 10 12:54 request.db
>
> I decided to check all the lists. There were about a dozen heldmsg
> files and all the lists request.db
> are small in size. I did notice that 10 of the lists request.db file
> was not owned by mailman. I'll change the
> owner back to mailman and get rid of all the heldmsg. Nobody else has
> reported any problems, so maybe
> it'll go away.
>

I have no bin/delete. I'm guessing you meant bin/discard.


>> -- 
>> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B.  
>> Dylan
>>
>
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