Hi, I'm having an intermittent locking problem with Mailman (version 2.0) on a Slackware 7.1 (kernel 2.2.17) system. Apparently at random times, the Web/cgi interface will become broken, and all page requests to /mailman/admin will either give an "Internal Server Error" (apache logs show nothing but a premature end of script headers) or simply not return a response for quite awhile and eventually give a "Document Contains No Data" error (browser flavor seems to be irrelavent, this has happened on IE and Netscape and on both Windows and X-Windows). Taking a closer look, I find that there will be a buildup of lockfiles in the /home/mailman/locks directory, and some hung python processes. I turned on the lock debugging, and the logs/locks file contains this sort of entry: Jan 03 10:08:06 2001 (14469) bentest.lock laying claim Jan 03 10:08:06 2001 (14469) bentest.lock waiting for claim Jan 03 10:08:33 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:34 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:34 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:35 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:37 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:37 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:39 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:41 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:41 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Jan 03 10:08:42 2001 (14469) bentest.lock lifetime has expired, breaking And on and on. Now, the really weird thing is that this will start happening to me on one browser, and I can hop over to another workstation and, pull the admin interface with no problems, yet it will continue to not work on the original station. It seems that if I kill off all the running python processes, delete everything in the locks directory, and think good thoughts, it will sometimes start working again, but some times it continues to not work. Any thoughts on where my problem might be? Ben Blakely Systems Admin I-Silver, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
