[Mailman-Users] In a pickle

[Simon White]

Hello

I've seen a few messages with this error in the searchable archive, but
no responses. I've tried to list as much info as I can below. The setup
was working fine until a couple of days ago when an automatic script for
subscribe/unsubscribe suddenly seemed to break things. However the
server had some new RAM put in it recently and may have been rebooted
without a proper shutdown. It's in a colocated hosting facility and the
techs there don't seem too bright sometimes...

/usr/local/mailman/bin# ./version
Using Mailman version: 2.1.2 --> should I upgrade? I feel I should fix
the problem first.

/usr/local/mailman/bin# ./list_lists
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./list_lists", line 122, in ?
    main()
  File "./list_lists", line 94, in main
    mlist = MailList.MailList(n, lock=0)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 124, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 583, in Load
    dict, e = self.__load(file)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 556, in __load
    dict = loadfunc(fp)
cPickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, ''.
(add_members, check_db, remove_members all give similar errors)

Kernel/OS Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 (Debian)

Mailman installed from source.

This was working fine earlier. Couple of observations

/usr/local/mailman/locks# ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r--    2 mailman  mailman        58 Dec  8  2003 master-qrunner
-rw-rw-r--    2 mailman  mailman        58 Dec  8  2003 master-qrunner.hostname.275
(I deleted a couple of listname.hostname.nnn lock files to see if it
would help, it didn't)

/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname# ls -l
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman   1843200 Dec  6 09:08 config.pck.last
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman   1670681 Sep 10 16:02 config.pck.safety
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman        29 Dec  5 08:00 request.db
(I recreated the config.pck by copying config.pck.last; didn't make any
difference).

/usr/local/mailman/data# ls -l
total 76
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      3501 Jun 23 16:47 aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 mailman  mailman     12288 Jun 24 15:44 aliases.db
-rw-r--r--    1 mailman  mailman        10 May  9  2003 last_mailman_version
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman         4 Dec  6 10:53 master-qrunner.pid
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman     35467 Dec  5 23:57 pending.pck
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mailman     14110 Jun 26 11:27 sitelist.cfg

Thanks for any help,

-- 
Simon White