[Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: unable to access admin interface

[Chad Rebuck]

All the lock files have been deleted as I found no process running for any
of them.  However, the problem still occurs.  What should I attempt next?

Thanks.




On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 07/22/2014 02:20 PM, Chad Rebuck wrote:
> > Should I delete each lock in order from oldest to newest, excluding the
> > active lock (20307)?  I've deleted a few and waited a few minutes
> > between each delete and saw no locks auto disappear yet.
>
>
> You can go through the whole list looking for non-existent PIDs and
> delete all those, or you can delete just the active lock as that is the
> one preventing the others from proceeding.
>
> I.e., delete the active lock (assuming its PID is gone) and some waiting
> processes may proceed. In any case, a new lock will become active.
> Repeat that until no locks remain.
>
>
> > Would I delete a2-16v-list.lock is I make it down the list that far
> > should I leave it alone?
>
> If at some point you are left with only the a2-16v-list.lock and no
> a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.PID.* files, you can just remove a2-16v-list.lock,
> or I think if you don't, it will be automatically removed the next time
> a process locks and unlocks the a2-16v-list list.
>
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