[Mailman-Users] Possible Backup Issue

[Dennis Putnam]

On 2/27/2020 12:47 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 2/27/20 6:27 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>> It has not happened in 2 days however, there are no files in any of
>> those directories. Does that not imply the backups are not working? Is
>> that handled by a cronjob?
>
> This has nothing to do with backups per se. The error messages are
> somewhat different.
>
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (14100) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 2] No
>> such file or directory
> The above actually goes with a set below (pid 14100).
>
>
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (5133) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 2] No such
>> file or directory:
>> '/var/spool/mailman/out/1582657325.390982+504a3666a91ef8722e1af700669bf0190e00417d.pck'
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (5133) Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 99, in _oneloop
>>     msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 154, in dequeue
>>     fp = open(filename)
>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/var/spool/mailman/out/1582657325.390982+504a3666a91ef8722e1af700669bf0190e00417d.pck'
>
> The above says OutgoingRunner has listed its queue and is now trying to
> retrieve the indicated .pck file from the queue, but it is gone. The
> only way this can happen is if another instance of OutgoingRunner has
> retrieved the message in the mean time.
>
>
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (5133) Skipping and preserving unparseable message:
>> 1582657325.390982+504a3666a91ef8722e1af700669bf0190e00417d
> This goes with the above, but is spurious. The missing file exception is
> assumed to be an unparseable message, but it's not.
>
>
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (14100) Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 99, in _oneloop
>>     msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 158, in dequeue
>>     os.rename(filename, backfile)
>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>
>> Feb 25 12:02:06 2020 (14100) Skipping and preserving unparseable
>> message: 1582657325.390982+30007f7a3ce65a426ba60c1ab46d996c33d2bb9a
>
> Here again, we are trying to retrieve a queued message that another
> instance has already retrieved.
>
> The rest of the messages are similar.
>
> As best as I can tell, this is all due to the issue discussed at
> <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030715>. If the server has been rebooted since
> this happened, that would have fixed it.
>
>
Hi Mark,

Thanks. I'll just keep an eye on it to see if it recurs.

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