[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman error

[Catherine Mannix]

Hello,

Could someone help me figure out what happened? I was adding subscribers to a list this morning in bunches of 50-100 at a time when the program displayed this error message:

Bug in Mailman version 2.0.7

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.

I was able to subscribe 7,881 subscribers before the above error happened. Looking into the error log, I am not able to figure out what happened or how to unlock the program for the list. The error log has many entries like this one:

Mar 15 09:19:48 2002 (3757) Delivery exception:

Mar 15 09:19:48 2002 (3757) Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline

    func(mlist, msg, msgdata)

  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 77, in process

    mlist.Lock()

  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1339, in Lock

    self.__lock.lock(timeout)

  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 266, in lock

    raise AlreadyLockedError

AlreadyLockedError

As well as, the following traceback info:

admin(17090): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.7 -----]

admin(17090): [----- Traceback ------]

admin(17090): Traceback (most recent call last):

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main

admin(17090):     main()

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 152, in main

admin(17090):     ChangeOptions(mlist, category, cgidata, doc)

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 897, in ChangeOptions

admin(17090):     digest, send_welcome_msg)

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1124, in ApprovedAddMembers

admin(17090):     self.Save()

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 857, in Save

admin(17090):     self.__save(dict)

admin(17090):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 816, in __save

admin(17090):     fp.write(marshal.dumps(dict))

admin(17090): MemoryError

I tested another list on the server and it seems to be working fine without any bug errors. In case this helps, the server is an Intel Pentium III CPU running FreeBSD 4.4 UNIX O/S and Apache 1.3 Web Server.

Can someone tell me what it is that has created this error and how to fix it and unlock the list?

Thanks in advance,
Cat Mannix