[Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman 2.1.4

[Myron Kowalski]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Myron Kowalski wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Myron Kowalski wrote:
>
>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>>> Myron Kowalski wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of my users sent me this message that he got when he tried to
>>>> approve a message to
>>>> his list. As far as I can tell, all my other lists, including his,
>>>> are
>>>> working well. Any help on
>>>> what I should be looking for?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4
>>>>
>>>> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a
>>>> copy
>>>> of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of
>>>> what
>>>> happened. Thanks!
>>>> Traceback:
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "/users/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
>>>> main()
>>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 166, in main
>>>> if not mlist.NumRequestsPending():
>>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 147, in
>>>> NumRequestsPending
>>>> self.__opendb()
>>>> File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 82, in __opendb
>>>> self.__db = marshal.load(fp)
>>>> MemoryError
>>>
>>>
>>> The CGI process is being denied sufficient memory for Python to load
>>> the date from lists/<listname>/request.db.
>>>
>>> My best guess is this file is huge and there are many held messages
>>> for
>>> this list.
>>>
>>> Look in Mailman's data/ directory for files named heldmsg- 
>>> <listname>-
>>> *.
>>> If there are lots, delete some of the oldest ones with
>>>
>>> bin/delete data/heldmsg...
>>>
>>> Use bin/delete instead of just rm so that they will also be removed
>>> from request.db.
>>>
>>> If you can't get request.db down to a manageable size in this way,
>>> you
>>> may just have to rm it and start over, but this will lose all  
>>> current
>>> requests from the admindb interface.
>>>
>>
>> There was only one message
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman     2295 Feb 12 17:39 heldmsg-net-
>> avengers-3.pck
>>
>> and the request.db was rather small.
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      119 Oct 10 12:54 request.db
>>
>> I decided to check all the lists. There were about a dozen heldmsg
>> files and all the lists request.db
>> are small in size. I did notice that 10 of the lists request.db file
>> was not owned by mailman. I'll change the
>> owner back to mailman and get rid of all the heldmsg. Nobody else has
>> reported any problems, so maybe
>> it'll go away.
>>
>
> I have no bin/delete. I'm guessing you meant bin/discard.
>

I got rid of all the heldmsg w/o any problems, until I got to the one  
in question.
Discarding that heldmsg returned this error.

mailman:~/data% ../bin/discard heldmsg-net-avengers-3.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "../bin/discard", line 120, in ?
     main()
   File "../bin/discard", line 110, in main
     mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD, '', False, False, '')
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 180, in  
HandleRequest
     self.__opendb()
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 82, in __opendb
     self.__db = marshal.load(fp)
MemoryError

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