| Greetings Folks, | | I currently run eight lists on with Mailman. | | Starting a couple of hours ago I could no longer get in to manage ONE of | the lists. When I say get in, I mean that I can not access the Web | interface for that particular list. The server simply churns and churns and | churns but nothing ever comes up on the screen.
<snip> | | Any ideas? Sounds like you have a stale lock for that list. >From the mailman faq: Q. Why do my web pages hang? A. CERN Web servers might leave Python processes running, and in some cases might hang the CGI completely. In that case, switch to Apache. It is also possible that you have stale locks. Mailman tries to be very careful about the lock files it creates to ensure the integrity of its databases, but sometimes system faults can cause stale locks to persist. Look in $prefix/locks for any stale list locks and remove them (you can determine if they're stale by getting the pid from the file contents and using ps to see if those processes are still running or not). I've seen stale locks occur for two reasons that I can identify. 1) corrupt cookies in users browser, clear them 2) I believe versions of mailman prior to 2.0.6 had a stale lock problem when a list had a large number of subscribers and a user would stop the browser from loading before the webpage completely downloaded. I haven't seen this problem with mailman 2.0.6 or 2.0.7 Hope this helps, Gary -- Regards, Gary Gaydos IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
