[Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

[Jon Carnes]

Looks like a permissions problem in the archives:
  /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public/ncihc-list

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:32, William R. Dickson wrote:
> At least, it looks weird to me.  No lockfiles are present.  I once had 
> something like this happen with a corrupt .msg file, but I tried 
> removing all files from the qfiles directory, and the problem recurs 
> with all new mail.
> 
> This began after moving the lists to a new server, running FreeBSD 4.8 
> rather than 4.4, and Python 2.2.2.  I have multiple Mailman 
> installations so I can handle virtual domains (one installation per 
> domain, allows me to have both "foo at domain1.com" and 
> "foo at domain2.com"); I'm reluctant to upgrade to 2.1.2 until I figure 
> out how the new qrunner scheme is going to work with this setup.  Only 
> one of the domains seems to have this problem; the rest are working 
> fine.  I've tried reinstalling mailman for this domain, removing 
> lockfiles, removing queue files, removing the archives and creating a 
> new directory, checked permissions on the directories.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> May 28 14:24:05 2003 (50423) Delivery exception:
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 (50423) Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", 
> line
>   82, in do_pipeline
>      func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>    File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", 
> line
>   77, in process
>      mlist.Lock()
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/MailList.py", line 
> 1339, in L
> ock
>      self.__lock.lock(timeout)
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 
> 266, in lo
> ck
>      raise AlreadyLockedError
> AlreadyLockedError
> 
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): Traceback (most recent call last):
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):   File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/
> cron/qrunner", line 283, in ?
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):      kids = main(lock)
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):   File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/
> cron/qrunner", line 264, in main
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):      mlist.Save()
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):   File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/
> Mailman/MailList.py", line 861, in Save
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):      self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):   File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/
> Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 253, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):      breaklink(pubdir)
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):   File 
> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/
> Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 50, in breaklink
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423):      os.unlink(link)
> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): OSError :  [Errno 1] Operation not 
> permitte
> d: '/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public/ncihc-list'