[Mailman-Users] qrunner refuses to pass mail to users

[Mark Sapiro]

falko at tahoe.reservoir.com
>
>I have the following setup: 
>
>Postfix -> Dspam -> Procmail -> Mailman -> Users
>
>I've tried taking Dspam out of the equation, but that did not change a thing.
>
>When users send to a mailing list, the message appears to be deilvered to mailman. 
>However, mailman does not do anything afterwards: i.e. its does not send the 
>messages to the users. 
>
>qrunner is running. I traced the problem to the following: 
>
>In logs/post I saw this:
>
>Aug 19 02:01:09 2007 (15427) post to list from falko at reservoir.com, size=1215, message-id=<20070819054804.GC14916 at reservoir.com>, 12 failures
>Aug 19 02:01:09 2007 (15428) post to list from falko at reservoir.com, size=1215, message-id=<20070819054804.GC14916 at reservoir.com>, 12 failures
>
>The message is repeated more than 12 times.


And what is in the smtp-failure log?


>In logs/error I see this: 
>
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838): Traceback (most recent call last):
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in ?
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):      main()
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 238, in main
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):      qrunner.run()
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 71, in run
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):      filecnt = self._oneloop()
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 100, in _oneloop
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):      msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase)
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 150, in dequeue
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838):      fp = open(filename)
>Aug 19 01:46:09 2007 qrunner(5838): IOError :  [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out/1187500584.
>9663761+5f32a14b80df78b4db0d2455318501cdaa1d6f0f.pck'


See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.068.htp>


<snip>

>Aug 19 01:48:05 2007 (15098) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sys
>admin/index.html'
>Aug 19 01:48:05 2007 (15098) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in _oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in _onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose
>    mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 217, in ArchiveMail
>    h.close()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 324, in close
>    self.write_TOC()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1094, in write_TOC
>    toc = open(os.path.join(self.basedir, 'index.html'), 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sysadmin/index.html'
>Aug 19 01:48:05 2007 (15098) SHUNTING: 1187502485.4463329+7a7b88a8b7bb48e961dc70e6ecfb9012cb8d588b


There is a bug in check_perms. It does not check for sufficient access
to archives/private/ - permissions should be at least drwxrws--- and
group mailman.


<snip>

>Aug 19 01:48:33 2007 (15173) Failed to unlink backup file: /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out/1187500584.9663761+e5cf2faf7251118610
>19d282cc9557ca9ba9db31.bak


This too looks like multiple qrunners processing the same queue slice.


<snip>

>I have run bin/check_perms multiple times, but it tells me that there are no problems.


See above.

-- 
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