On 25 Aug 2004, at 17:30, Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:42:07PM +0100, Richard Barrett wrote:
On 25 Aug 2004, at 13:57, Rick Pasotto wrote:
mailman appeared in the list of potential upgrades this morning but
when
I try to install it I'm told that there are files in
/var/lib/mailman/qfiles so the upgrade won't happen. There are no
*files* in that directory, however there are some *directories* there.
I'm told to run 'mailmanctl start' to clear out the files and then run
the update again. When I try to do that I'm told that qrunner is
already
running.
If there and files in the subdirs of $prefix/qfiles/ then make sure 'mailmanctl start' has started the qrunners and let it run until the subdirs are empty. Then stop your local MTA, sendmail or whatever, so that it will not deliver any more messages into the $prefix/qfiles/in subdir. Run 'mailmanctl stop' to stop the qrunners and you should be able to safely upgrade the mailman installation. I cannot speak to debian and how it does upgrades. Thew restart your MTA and run 'mailmanctl start'.
There is *nothing* for qrunner to process.
Hey, you are the guy with the problem not me. If you do not like the help do not ask for it.
There are files in the 'bad' directory. There are files in the 'shunt' directory. There is one file in the 'commands' directory which is waiting for moderator action.
How can I find what files are blocking the upgrade?
Why should any of those files block the upgrade?
Because that is the way that the Debian package developer decided it should be.
This is not a Mailman issue per se. If you installed and upgraded Mailman from its source distribution you wouldn't get this hassle as this empty directory constraint is not a Mailman constraint.
But, given you are doing it the Debian way, I guess you should stop the MTA, run 'mailmanctl stop', move those file under $prefix/qfiles/ to one side see if that will make the installer happy. bad means bad/cannot be handled and shunt probably means they cannot be handled. So you could choose to just delete this stuff but that is your choice.
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