Sounds bad kemosabee. The backup is the way to go. You might be able to use "strings config.pck" and get a string dump of the file that has some helpful information.
Good Luck! On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:04, Simon White wrote: > 08-Dec-03 at 11:51, Jon Carnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > Do you have a config.pck.last for that list? Try renaming your current > > config.pck and copy over the config.pck.last and see if that works. > > I didn't have a config.pck at all, I did cp -r config.pck.last to get > the one I currently have. > > > If so, then you have a corrupt config.pck file and "check_db" should > > have been able to fix this. > > sd25:/usr/local/mailman/bin# ./check_db List-Name > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./check_db", line 153, in ? > main() > File "./check_db", line 121, in main > mlist = MailList(listname, lock=0) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 124, in __init__ > self.Load() > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 583, in Load > dict, e = self.__load(file) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 556, in __load > dict = loadfunc(fp) > cPickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, ''. > > Here's the directory listing: > > > > /usr/local/mailman/lists/listname# ls -l > > > -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1843200 Dec 6 09:08 config.pck.last > > > -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1670681 Sep 10 16:02 config.pck.safety > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 29 Dec 5 08:00 request.db > > > (I recreated the config.pck by copying config.pck.last; didn't make any > > > difference). > > So... I can't use config.pck.safety it's too old and unsubscribers will > go crazy. I have a backup somewhere that's more recent though, I could > go get that, but I'm worried about check_db spewing that error about > invalid load key... ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
