[Mailman-Users] qrunner is eating my messages alive

[aaron]

I'm running Mailman 2.0.8 on FresBSD 4.5-RELEASE with Python 2.1.1 and
Apache 1.3.22...

and qrunner is killing most of the messages that the in the ~/qfiles
directory. a typical log entry from ~/logs/qrunner is:

Feb 07 23:29:17 2002 (16588) Unlinking orphaned .db file:
/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/d44a0095efd6c432087f07eaeef2f37fbb4a2c04.db
Feb 07 23:31:02 2002 (16658) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Feb 07 23:32:02 2002 (16687) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Feb 07 23:32:41 2002 (16652) Unlinking orphaned .db file:
/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/ae84a6fb202d6e89c9628aef00c37f033694961e.db
Feb 07 23:34:01 2002 (20606) Unlinking orphaned .db file:
/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/780e56e6a782d380fddb8657e4fa647e6ad45625.db
Feb 07 23:34:01 2002 (20606) Unlinking orphaned .db file:
/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/780e56e6a782d380fddb8657e4fa647e6ad45625.db

and in ~/logs/error i see:

Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640): Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640):   File
"/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ?
Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640):      kids = main(lock)
Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640):   File
"/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 202, in main
Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640):      os.unlink(root+'.db')
Feb 07 23:40:42 2002 qrunner(20640): OSError :  [Errno 2] No such file or
directory:
'/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/419298e2e6e9a12ee29a90ac211bef496292350c.db'

so it seems like qrunner is crashing when trying to unlink the files.

the result is that almost no messages are going out over any of my lists.

the strange thing is that all ~/qfiles/*.msg files seem to have
~/qfiles/*.db files... so why does qrunner think the .db files are orphaned?

help?!