[Mailman-Users] qrunner dying

[Kysh]

Ok, I'll try to keep this as short as possible. (I have skimmed the archives, I
have dug around for months on the internet trying to find a reference. I have
asked on the IRC channel, all to no avail)

I've been running mailman for years and years now. I've been upgrading along
the way, and am currently running 2.1.1-5. 

Sometime back in December (May have been around the time of an upgrade, can't 
remember), my qrunner took a vacation. I didn't notice for a few days until 
dozens of users started emailing me frantically. 

I've upgraded quite a few times since then, but since then:

When I run maimanctl start, qrunner only lasts about three seconds. 

Apr 29 00:21:05 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26362, sig: None, sts: 1, class: CommandRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]
Apr 29 00:21:05 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26361, sig: None, sts: 1, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]

[snip] ... [snip]

Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26432, sig: None, sts: 1, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26438, sig: None, sts: 1, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Qrunner ArchRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting.
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26437, sig: None, sts: 1, class: VirginRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Qrunner VirginRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting.
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 26436, sig: None, sts: 1, class: NewsRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting]
Apr 29 00:21:08 2003 (26359) Qrunner NewsRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting.

I tried upping the maximum restart limit to an arbitrarily high number, but 
qrunner just didn't really work at all.

However, if I run /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner -r All, everything works great. 

(Except that after a while, it starts eating up more and more CPU time)

I've checked all the easy stuff, and I'm stumped. I don't know python that well,
and this whole thing gives me a bit of a headache. :> 

Any thoughts? (reinstalling is DEFINIETLY not an option, with the number of 
users and lists that I have!)

-Kysh
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