[Mailman-Developers] 2.1b2 error after reboot

[Dale]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:21:07AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "LR" == Luigi Rosa <lrosa@mail.hypertrek.info> writes:
> 
>     LR> Hello, half an hour ago I suffered an unscheduled power
>     LR> outage, when my Linux (RH 7.3) rebooted, I had to correct an
>     LR> unlinked i-node in /tmp file system (apparently a .pid file).
> 
>     LR> The qrunner deamon did not start and reported this error: Jul
>     LR> Then I did a
> 
>     LR>      # service mailman stop
> 
>     LR> and mailman logged this
> 
>     LR> Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): No child with pid:
>     LR> 25776 Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): [Errno 3] No such
>     LR> process Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): Stale pid file
>     LR> removed.
> 
>     LR> after that I did a
> 
>     LR>      # service mailman start
> 
>     LR> and everything was Ok.
> 
>     LR> This could be a serious issue in case of unattended machines,
>     LR> is there a solution for this error?
> 
> Sounds like you don't have things set up to restart on reboot
> properly.  Did you follow the installation directions to chkconfig
> --add the mailman script to the proper run levels?

Problem diagnosed with suggested fix (works for me) at:

[ 565917 ] mailmanctl bombs after unclean shutdown

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=565917&group_id=103&atid=100103