[Mailman-Users] lists stop working

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>> I have a small mailman (2.1.x) installation with a few lists.  They
>> just stopped working the other day.  I did a mailmanctl restart and
>> that did not fix it but a stop and then a start did.  I saw nothing
>> in the logs to indicate why the lists stopped working.
>>
>> How does one go about debugging this sort of thing?
>
>
> Probably one or more of your qrunners stopped. At this point, you can
> look at Mailman's qrunner log and possibly see entries about runners
> stopping and being restarted until the limit is reached. If so, there
> will also be a small bit of information as to why (what signal or
> condition) caused the runner to stop.

Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 (70376) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 5860, sig: None, sts: 1, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1)  
[restarting]
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 (70376) Qrunner OutgoingRunner reached maximum  
restart limit of 10, not restarting.


> There may also be something in
> Mailman's 'error' log from the same time.

Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860): Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/ 
qrunner", line 270, in ?
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      main()
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/ 
qrunner", line 230, in main
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      qrunner.run()
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/ 
Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 87, in run
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      self._cleanup()
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/ 
Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 134, in _cleanup
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      BounceMixin._cleanup(self)
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/ 
Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 132, in _cleanup
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      self._register_bounces()
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/ 
Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 120, in _register_bounces
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      mlist.registerBounce(addr,  
msg, day=day)
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):   File "/usr/local/mailman/ 
Mailman/Bouncer.py", line 131, in registerBounce
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860):      time.strftime('%d-%b-%Y',  
day + (0,)*6))
Jul 12 16:51:50 2006 qrunner(5860): ValueError :  day of year out of  
range



>
> If it happens again see items 5 - 8 at
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? 
> req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>.

I shall take a look.

thanks
Chad
>

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