[Mailman-Users] locks

[kalin m]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> kalin m wrote:
>   
>> i did delete the locks when the problem begun. but that apparently 
>> didn;t do much..  now here is what i get:
>>     
>
>
> Do you still have lock issues?  Perhaps you deleted some active lock
> requests along with the stale lock and allowed a concurrent update
> causing the config.pck corruption. Or perhaps the corrupt config.pck
> is causing lock issues?
>   
i still get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 72, in main
    mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 629, in Load
    self.CheckVersion(dict)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 668, in CheckVersion
    if self.data_version >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION:
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 144, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, name
AttributeError: data_version


>> ./bin/dumpdb lists/musiclist/config.pck | grep data_version
>>
>> doesn't do much.
>>
>> for ./bin/dumpdb lists/musiclist/config.pck.last
>>
>> is giving me the help page for dumpdb.
>>     
>
> Which tells you "If the filename ends with `.db', then it is assumed
> that the file contains a Python marshal.  If the file ends with `.pck'
> then it is assumed to contain a Python pickle.  In either case, if you
> want to override the default assumption -- or if the file ends in
> neither suffix -- use the -p or -m flags."
>
> i.e. you need to do
>
>   ./bin/dumpdb -p lists/musiclist/config.pck.last
>   
cool. i didn't know that....
> What do you get when you dump these files? If you compare the results
> (by eye, not with diff) to a dump of a working list's config.pck, do
> they even look reasonable?
>   
both musiclist/config.pck and musiclist/config.pck.last look pretty much 
the same but not like any 'normal' config.pck

they have a bunch of lines like:

                                                  <UserDesc 
neo at hotmail.com () [odufat] [digest? no] [en]>),
    'fb27c0e1ec56a5295f66992ba4463215b2291936': (   'S',
                                                    <UserDesc 
neo at hotmail.com () [naunka] [digest? no] [en]>),
    'fb3bef120543c177653d5057e699f2294368a2cc': (   'S',
                                                    <UserDesc 
jane at mail.com () [rakono] [digest? no] [en]>),
    'fb8efc7f43e9c068ca0cbc1e8c49f8e3227cdfaa': (   'S',
                                                    <UserDesc 
nick76 at mailbox.com () [nietfu] [digest? no] [en]>),
    'fba45bf178def81da36ea77b5ef5e440f1fd2b7a': (   'S',


i assume this makes them corrupt....

i guess i'll just have to recreate the list?


thanks..