[Mailman-Users] qrunner (?) probs

[Dan Mick]

Jozsa Kristof wrote:
>
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 41, in process
>     footer = string.replace(mlist.msg_footer % d, '\r\n', '\n')
> TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

This points directly at msg_footer.  Suspect extra "%d"-or "%(field)" printf-like
format codes in your footer string.  Look over the footer string *very* carefully.  

> --
> 
> ..and I have no idea what's going on, or why this list aint work why others
> all do. From the users point of view, they send a mail to the list, and
> neither the mail arrives to the members of the list, nor they get back any
> error. I've found all the sent mails in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles, and
> /var/log/mailman/qrunner also grows slowly with such messages repeating:
> --
> Feb 02 09:19:13 2001 (5157) Exception reading qfile:
> /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/edaee586d8eb4a58e59cbc66ccf8e91630f5acd2
> EOF read where object expected

That's pretty odd.  Try temporarily moving that file to somewhere else (like a new
directory ~mailman/saveqfiles or something) and see if the rest of them get
processed.

> Feb 02 09:20:03 2001 (5168) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Feb 02 09:21:03 2001 (5177) Could not acquire qrunner lock

You may now have a stale lock in ~mailman/locks because something went
horribly wrong; it'll probably have to be removed by hand.