[Mailman-Developers] Re: Cron <list@chiark> [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue

[Gergely Madarasz]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Cron Daemon writes ("Cron <list@chiark> [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue"):
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 46, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 39, in main
> >     lockfile.lock()
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 114, in lock
> >     if self.locked():
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 193, in locked
> >     pid, winner = self.__read()
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 96, in __read
> >     pid, winner = string.split(string.strip(fp.read()))
> > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> > Exception exceptions.ValueError: 'unpack list of wrong size' in <method FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 80a1f38> ignored
> 
> I just got this mail.  You'll remember that I mailed you a little
> while ago when my system ran out of disk space and I got a `no space
> left on device' error (which was obviously expected) and something
> that looked like the stuff above (which you told me I could ignre).
> 
> But, as you can see, it's happened again, and there is plenty of disk
> space and I can't see anything wrong.

Hmmm... I don't know what this should mean...

Greg