[Mailman-Users] Trouble migrating

Sun Apr 26 12:44:33 EDT 2020

David: Your qrunner exceptions sound surprisingly like a problem I had earlier this week with a new install of 2.1.30.

In Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py

change line 60 
from: while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
to: while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase[:26] or

Restart mailman and see how things go from there.

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Tom Coradeschi
tcora at skylands.ibmwr.org

> On 26 Apr 2020, at 12:05 PM, Lothar Schilling <ls at proasyl.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> today I tried to migrate our whole mailman installation to another server.
> 
> Old server: Centos 6.10, Mailman 2.1.29, Python 2.6.6
> 
> New server: Centos 7.7, Mailman 2.1.30 (from the tgz file), Python 2.7.5
> 
> It seemed to be an easy transition. But then I started to realize I've run into problems. For example, I can't release a moderated message. Also, I cannot switch users from moderated to not moderated or hidden to unhidden. The error logs look like this:
> 
> Apr 26 17:38:16 2020 (11727) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> Apr 26 17:38:16 2020 (11727) Traceback (most recent call last):
> Apr 26 17:38:16 2020 (11727) SHUNTING: 1587915493.168592+122b90464edb8dfe2a33eb4e84fd036f0943019c
> Apr 26 17:38:16 2020 (11727) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: /var/spool/mailman/virgin/1587915493.168592+bfc8cbc934795ac0c0d663ac31c3ea3df13e9b59.bak
> Apr 26 17:52:18 2020 (11727) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/spool/mailman/virgin/1587916338.266272+f1e11334def7f62140a3442c10bd6b56268d9010.pck'
> Apr 26 17:52:18 2020 (11727) Traceback (most recent call last):
> Apr 26 17:52:18 2020 (11727) Skipping and preserving unparseable message: 1587916338.266272+f1e11334def7f62140a3442c10bd6b56268d9010
> Apr 26 17:52:19 2020 (11726) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: /var/spool/mailman/out/1587916338.266272+5c0165dec7b0fdd4e3851688a77b8e31a99b015d.bak
> Apr 26 17:52:20 2020 (11727) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: /var/spool/mailman/virgin/1587916338.285911+c4b5275fd082841b395994955b37f5f85569bba9.bak
> 
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694): Traceback (most recent call last):
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in <module>
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      main()
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 238, in main
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      qrunner.run()
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 87, in run
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      self._cleanup()
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 263, in _cleanup
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694): BounceMixin._cleanup(self)
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 137, in _cleanup
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      self._register_bounces()
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 126, in _register_bounces
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      mlist.Save()
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 578, in Save
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      self.__save(dict)
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 555, in __save
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694):      os.link(fname, fname_last)
> Apr 26 17:53:13 2020 qrunner(11694): OSError :  [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> 
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722): Traceback (most recent call last):
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in <module>
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      main()
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 238, in main
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      qrunner.run()
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 87, in run
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      self._cleanup()
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 263, in _cleanup
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722): BounceMixin._cleanup(self)
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 137, in _cleanup
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      self._register_bounces()
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 126, in _register_bounces
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      mlist.Save()
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 578, in Save
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      self.__save(dict)
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 555, in __save
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722):      os.link(fname, fname_last)
> Apr 26 17:53:16 2020 qrunner(11722): OSError :  [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> 
> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f didn't give me any errors.
> 
> I also tried to fall back to Centos' standard mailman package which is 2.1.15 but to no avail.
> 
> This took me all day and I'm still where I was in the morning. Any help out there?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Lothar Schilling
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