[Mailman-Developers] .nfs* lock files

[Harald Meland]

[Melissa G. Ng]

> I think it may be related to a problem I have regarding the cgi
> script "listinfo".

I don't think so.

> When I try to invoke "<mailman-server>/mailman/listinfo" I get

[...]

>   File "/user/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 812, in Load
>     dict = marshal.load(file)
> MemoryError: 

[...]

> But when I invoke the individual lists's "listinfo" page, it comes
> back fine.

I think one of your lists have had its config.db corrupted (but I
don't know _why_ that has happened).  If so, you can discover which
list is causing you grief like this:

  $ whoami
  mailman
  $ cd
  $ python
  Python 1.5.2 (#6, Dec  1 1999, 20:04:16) [C] on sunos5
  Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
  >>> from Mailman import Utils, MailList
  >>> for name in Utils.list_names():
  ...   print "About to attempt load of list", name
  ...   mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0)
  ... 
  About to attempt load of list list1
  [...]
  About to attempt load of list corrupt-list
  Traceback (innermost last):  

... indicating that the corrupted list is called "corrupt-list".  As
the test aborts once a corrupt list is found, make sure you re-run the
test until it finishes without producing any tracebacks.

> Could someone please help me out with this problem?

This isn't really on topic for this list -- the correct list for such
problems is mailman-users.


Cheap shot at making this post on-topic: Should there be a cron script
(possibly cron/checkdbs will do) to warn the site admin about lists
that have been corrupted?
-- 
Harald