[Mailman-Users] Upgrading mm 2.1.26 on Ubuntu 18.04 to 2.1.29

[Mark Sapiro]

On 5/23/19 7:02 AM, Fabian A. Santiago wrote:
> 
> ok, the issue occurred again with the same error. the complaint is (from
> systemctl status ... -l):
> 
> May 23 09:44:40 mail systemd[1]: mailman.service: Can't open PID file
> /var/run/mailman/mailman.
> 
> journalctl -xe reports:
> 
> May 23 09:46:02 mail CRON[18652]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed
> for user sogo
> May 23 09:46:10 mail systemd[1]: mailman.service: Start operation timed
> out. Terminating.
> May 23 09:46:10 mail systemd[1]: mailman.service: Failed with result
> 'timeout'.
> May 23 09:46:10 mail systemd[1]: Failed to start Mailman Master Queue
> Runner.
> -- Subject: Unit mailman.service has failed
> 
> there is no pid file present in that location. am i wrong in assuming
> that gets created when the service starts?
> 
> the dir permissions in that path are:
> 
> root at mail:/var/run/mailman# ls -la
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 list list   40 May 23 09:41 .
> drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 1260 May 23 09:06 ..


It's hard to say without seeing the contents of your mailman.service
file (or if it is generated by systemd-sysv-generator, the
/etc/init.d/mailman file), but `chmod g+w /var/run/mailman` may help.

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