[Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: unable to access admin interface

[Mark Sapiro]

On 07/23/2014 06:54 AM, Chad Rebuck wrote:
> I installed it with a package on my arch system using 
> 
> pacman -Syu


Did it ever work?


> [root at pogo chadr]# ll /var/lib/mailman/locks/
> total 16K
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 http    mailman 52 Jul 23 03:52 a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.22018.0
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 http    mailman 52 Jul 23 04:45 a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.22205.0
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 46 Jul 24  2014 master-qrunner
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 46 Jul 24  2014 master-qrunner.pogo.341
> 
> Then I tried to access
> 
> http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/admindb/a2-16v-list and waited for the
> 504 error to appear in the browser
> 
> 
> [root at pogo chadr]# ll /var/lib/mailman/locks/
> total 24K
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 http    mailman 52 Jul 23  2014 a2-16v-list.lock
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 http    mailman 52 Jul 23 03:52 a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.22018.0
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 http    mailman 52 Jul 23 04:45 a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.22205.0
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 http    mailman 52 Jul 23  2014 a2-16v-list.lock.pogo.25275.0
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 46 Jul 24  2014 master-qrunner
> -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 46 Jul 24  2014 master-qrunner.pogo.341


I don't think the issue is lock contention because it appears that your
CGI process was PID 25275 and it acquired the lock. Either that or
something is really hosed and the CGI attempts to lock the list twice.

Also, there's something weird about the clock on your system because 4
of the above 6 files have time stamps in the future.

I don't know if there are multiple runner issues or not, and they
shouldn't affect CGIs anyway, but see the "You need to stop all Mailman
processes and then start Mailman once only." section in the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/_4A9>. Do this up to the point of starting
Mailman, but before starting Mailman remove all files from the
/var/lib/mailman/locks/ directory and then try the web interface again
without first starting Mailman.

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