[Mailman-Users] Rebuilding an archive

[David B. O'Donnell]

I posted on this before and didn't see any kind of reply, so hopefully this 
reframe will help.

One of my lists has a corrupt archive. The archive listing shows subjects 
that only go up to 10 October, and that do not correspond to the actual 
messages that were archived.

When I run ~mailman/bin/arch/listname, everything proceeds fine until it 
gets to October, where it blows up:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "bin/arch", line 129, in ?
    main()
  File "bin/arch", line 118, in main
    archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, Article)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 523, in 
processUnixMailbox
    self.add_article(a)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 926, in 
add_article
    self.__super_add_article(article)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 562, in 
add_article
    article.parentID = parentID = self.get_parent_info(arch, article)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 594, in 
get_parent_info
    article.subject)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 303, in 
getOldestArticle
    self.__openIndices(archive)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 245, in 
__openIndices
    t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i))
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 68, in 
__init__
    self.load()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 173, in load
    self.dict = marshal.load(fp)
ValueError: bad marshal data

The help for arch isn't exactly helpful in this kind of situation, and I 
don't recall seeing any information in the documentation or online about 
how to deal with archives, either.

Any suggestions would be welcome. I would prefer not to lose that month's 
archive, but if I have to...

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