[Mailman-Users] Sanity-checking individual lists for health?

[Mark Sapiro]

Chris Waltham wrote:
>
>One list that failed both "make update" and the below-mentioned  
>"config_list" is named "bowsun". Here is a copy of its contents:
>
>drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman   4096 Jul 24 11:03 ./
>drwxrwsr-x  844 mailman mailman  65536 Jul 24 11:01 ../
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman   1692 Jul 30  2003  
>admindbpreamble.html*
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman    357 Jan 19  2001 archives.html*
>-rw-rw----    1 root    mailman  15076 Jul 23 15:37 config.db
>-rw-rw----    1 mailman mailman  15075 Jun 29 07:03 config.db.last
>-rw-rw----    1 root    mailman  12578 Jul 24 11:03 config.pck
>-rw-rw----    1 root    mailman  12578 Jul 24 10:51 config.pck.last
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman    189 Jan 19  2001 handle_opts.html*
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman   1026 Jan 19  2001 headfoot.html*
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman   3136 Jan 19  2001 listinfo.html*
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman   4106 Jan 19  2001 options.html*
>-rw-rw-r--    1 root    mailman 443875 Jul 24 08:41 request.pck
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman   1169 Jan 19  2001 roster.html*
>-rwxr-xr--    1 mailman mailman    198 Jan 19  2001 subscribe.html*
>
>I'm not sure how to start troubleshooting that one..?


What did bin/config_list do when you ran it on this list? Did it issue
any sort of error or traceback? If it gave you no information (I don't
know why this would be), you could try running bin/dumpdb on the
config.pck (and maybe the config.pck.last), and also on a good lists
config.pck and compare the two.

Obviously, the output will be different, but what you are looking for
is whether or not the actual attribute names and the types (string,
list of strings, list of tuples, numbers) of the attribute values
correspond between the two lists.

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