[Mailman-Users] invites for large user list fails

[Mark Sapiro]

Anne Ramey wrote:
>
>I see neither RLimitCPU nor RLimitMem in my apache config.
>
>The error in my apache log is pretty much just what shows on the screen:
>
>[Wed Sep 12 16:17:54 2007] [error]  Premature end of script headers: 
>admin, referer: http
>://lists.domain.tld/mailman/admin/listname/members/add
>[Wed Sep 12 16:21:10 2007] [error] Premature end of script headers: 
>confirm, referer: h
>ttp://lists.domain.tld/mailman/confirm/listname/6aa1c93a87faa005a204269528bab4968eeda7f3
>[Wed Sep 12 16:23:05 2007] [error]  Premature end of script headers: 
>confirm, referer: h
>ttp://lists.domain.tld/mailman/confirm/listname/88534c254d1e0e5d4866814e7a4e3da15d75580a
>[Wed Sep 12 16:34:08 2007] [error] Premature end of script headers: 
>admin, referer: htt
>p://lists.domain.tld/mailman/admin/listname/members/add
>[Wed Sep 12 16:37:54 2007] [error] Premature end of script headers: 
>options, referer: ht
>tp://lists.domain.tld/mailman/options/listname
>[Wed Sep 12 16:38:28 2007] [error]  Premature end of script headers: 
>confirm, referer: ht
>tp://lists.domain.tld/mailman/confirm/listname/0abdea7d85f4df17e7007b00f86f3901421292aa
>[Wed Sep 12 16:38:40 2007] [error]  Premature end of script headers: 
>confirm, referer: ht
>tp://lists.domain.tld/mailman/confirm/listname/d1a76914852c2a8a920e1a6836adadb41e36d99e
>[Wed Sep 12 16:52:35 2007] [error]  user 9944 not found: /NCMail/index.html
>[Wed Sep 12 17:34:16 2007] [error]Premature end of script headers: 
>admin, referer: htt
>p://lists.domain.tld/mailman/admin/listname/members/add
>
>It looks like this list is having problems with both confirms and 
>invites, but not every time.  This appears to be the only list (out of 
>several hundred) having this problem.  But this is probably only one of 
>a few that is sending out large quantities of invites.


I suspect there may be a problem with the pending database for this
list.

Download <http://veenet.value.net/~msapiro/scripts/list_pending>
(mirrored at <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/list_pending>),
save it in Mailman's bin/ directory and run it on the offending list
and see what happens. It will probably throw the "TypeError:
unsubscriptable object" exception. If so, there is at least one bad
entry in the pending.pck file. In that case, I can provide a modified
script which will delete the bad entries.


-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan