[Mailman-Users] qrunner errors and delays

[Max Kalika]

Greetings list,

We have been noticing intermittent qrunner errors (in the qrunner log) like 
the following:

Feb 28 09:30:00 2002 (29548) Exception reading qfile: 
/mail/lists/qfiles/4a892b3f09e5f910ea6baa3362cf6048ef09c865
EOF read where object expected

The error log also has a ton of these:

Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630): Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630):   File 
"/usr/local/webapps/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ?
Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630):      kids = main(lock)
Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630):   File 
"/usr/local/webapps/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 202, in main
Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630):      os.unlink(root+'.db')
Feb 28 09:52:00 2002 qrunner(31630): OSError :  [Errno 2] No such file or 
directory: '/mail/lists/qfiles/dca77c
d596314ee9e3eeaf047b21f34c179dc16e.db

This may be related to random delays on some lists (from 20 minutes to 
several hours)

Would anyone have any information on how to resolve this?  Thanks in 
advance.

Here's the system setup:

SYSTEM:
  linux kernel 2.4.16; glibc 2.2.4; gcc-2.95.3; python 2.1.2; mailman 2.0.8
  sendmail 8.11.6

PERMISSIONS:
drwxrwsr-x   10 mailman  mailman       240 Apr 15  2001 lists
drwxrwsr-x    4 root     mailman        96 Apr 15  2001 lists/archives
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman     11072 Feb 28 09:54 lists/data
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman        80 Jan  5 18:03 lists/filters
drwxrwsr-x  490 root     mailman     13520 Feb 25 09:47 lists/lists
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman       336 Feb 28 09:56 lists/locks
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman       280 Sep 13 14:10 lists/logs
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      2736 Feb 28 09:56 lists/qfiles
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman       448 Feb 25 21:37 lists/spam

drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:03 mailman/bin
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:03 mailman/cgi-bin
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:04 mailman/cron
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:03 mailman/icons
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:03 mailman/mail
drwxrwsr-x    8 root     mailman      4096 Feb 13 11:16 mailman/Mailman
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 18:04 mailman/scripts
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan  7 09:38 mailman/templates

# ./check_perms
No problems found

CRONTAB:
  30   15    *    *    1-5   mailman /usr/local/bin/python -S 
/usr/local/webapps/mailman/cron/checkdbs
  00   12    *    *    *     mailman /usr/local/bin/python -S 
/usr/local/webapps/mailman/cron/senddigests
 */2   *     *    *    *     mailman /usr/local/bin/python -S 
/usr/local/webapps/mailman/cron/qrunner


---max kalika
--max at lsit.ucsb.edu
-lsit systems administrator