[Mailman-Developers] Error in starting mailman

[Aditya Divekar]

@ Abhilash Raj -  Thanks for your swift reply. It worked. I terminated
it wrongly last time I suppose.

@ Mark Sapiro -  Yes, there was a stale lock file not associated with
any process. Removed it. And I'll go through the FAQ. Thanks!

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> On 02/08/2016 08:42 AM, Aditya Divekar wrote:
>> I got the following error when I was trying to start the mailman service today -
>>
>> master: error: The master lock could not be acquired.  It appears as
>> though there is a stale master lock
>
>
> The service was not gracefully stopped the last time it was running and
> left the master lock behind. The FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/17891756> describes how locks are implemented in
> Mailman 2.1, but Mailman 3 is similar.
>
> There is a var/locks/ directory in your Mailman hierarchy. In it you
> will see two files. in MM 2.1, they would be named master-qrunner and
> master-qrunner.hostname.pid. In MM 3 they will be similar. Assuming
> there is no process with PID = pid running on hostname, you can safely
> remove those files.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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