[Mailman-Users] trouble starting mailman

[Ian Kaufman]

Hi all,

I am having trouble getting my mailman instance to run. It was working for
sometime,
but I had to move some files around and add a new disk to the system, and
now
it refuses to start. The error I see is:

Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 607, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 449, in main
    lock = acquire_lock(force)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 263, in acquire_lock
    lock = acquire_lock_1(force)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 248, in acquire_lock_1
    lock.lock(0.1)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock
    self.__write()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write
    fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lock/mailman/master-qrunner.calit2-web05.ucsd.edu.5359.1'
Exception exceptions.OSError: <exceptions.OSError instance at 0xb7b01eec> in
Exception exceptions.OSError: <exceptions.OSError instance at 0xb7b01ecc>
in                                    [FAILED]

It appears that mailmanctl tries to create the lockfile, but does not, as
there is nothing
in /var/lock/mailman. I have run check_perms and there were no errors.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ian

Ian Kaufman
Research Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu