[Mailman-Users] problems with .pck files

[james edwards]

Mark,

Thanks for your help. Answers inline.


> Is it only gate_news that gets this error? Are there errors like this
> in the error log from other processes. What happens if you go to the
> web listinfo overview for example. Does it get the same error?


Yep & only for one list.


If everything that accesses the list gets this, then I hope you have a
> recent backup. If you don't, try 'bin/dumpdb' on both the config.pck
> and config.pck.last to see if you can at least get up to date info in
> text form.



A level 0  backup raan last night, so I can get the files from there.

Is there anything of use here:

[root at jidmail jid]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb -p config.pck.last
[----- start pickle file -----]
[----- end pickle file -----]
[root at jidmail jid]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb -p config.pck
[----- start pickle file -----]
[----- end pickle file -----]
[root at jidmail jid]# ls
config.pck  config.pck.last  pending.pck  request.pck
[root at jidmail jid]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb -p pending.pck
[----- start pickle file -----]
<----- start object 1 ----->
{   'c3e20eb8105c74b4b1356d965dd88523103cf608': ('H', 32),
    'e01d88cc37e6f6bf1d546b28b38c413125beb229': ('H', 33),
    'evictions': {   'c3e20eb8105c74b4b1356d965dd88523103cf608':
1143215294.351737,
                     'e01d88cc37e6f6bf1d546b28b38c413125beb229':
1143242143.3469989},
    'version': 2}
[----- end pickle file -----]
[root at jidmail jid]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb -p request.pck
[----- start pickle file -----]
<----- start object 1 ----->
{   33: (   1,
            (   1142982943.3346181,
                'xxxxj at xxxxxs.com',
                'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
                'Post by non-member to a members-only list',
                'heldmsg-jid-33.pck',
                {   '_parsemsg': True,
                    'lang': 'en',
                    'listname': 'jid',
                    'pipeline': [   'Hold',
                                    'MimeDel',
                                    'Emergency',
                                    'Tagger',
                                    'CalcRecips',
                                    'AvoidDuplicates',
                                    'Cleanse',
                                    'CookHeaders',
                                    'ToDigest',
                                    'ToArchive',
                                    'ToUsenet',
                                    'AfterDelivery',
                                    'Acknowledge',
                                    'ToOutgoing'],
                    'received_time': 1142982942.707638,
                    'rejection_notice': 'Non-members are not allowed to post
messages to this list.',
                    'tolist': 1,
                    'version': 3})),
    'version': (0, 1)}
[----- end pickle file -----]
[root at jidmail jid]#

James