[Mailman-Developers] Problem with lockfiles and time in the future

[Dan Mick]

The lock date is set into the future on purpose, so that eventually
stale locks can be automatically reclaimed.

Some process died holding a lock.  Remove it and drive on if you're
sure that process is dead.

> I am having a very odd situation with lock files.  My entire mailman
> system suddenly stopped working a few days ago, and I have tracked it
> down to the lockfiles.  In the logs, nothing is able to get a lock.
> What I have noticed is the timestamp on the lock file is exactly 10
> hours in the future from the current time, when it tried to get the
> lock.  This is not a problem with cron or the OS time setting, as I
> setup another job in cron exactly like qrunner but through bourne
> shell, and it reports time properly, so something from python on down
> is causing it to do this oddly.  Does anybody have any idea what this
> could be?  Where I can start digging?  I am running mailman 2.0.6 on
> Solaris 8, x86.
> 
> -Brandon Gillespie
> 
> (BTW, please CC me on any response as I am not on the mailing list)
> 
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