SML wrote: > >There was no update to either Mailman or Python ... but one of the >lists was hit with a *massive* amount of spam that caused "too many >files open" error, this same spam attack eventually caused the >server to run out of memory :(
And the reboot of the server could have caused things which were previously downloaded and waiting for a reboot to install to finally be installed. >> The above import has been in Approve.py since 2.1.0. Something else >> in your system changed. > >When creating a temp list for a testing sandbox the Import errors were >replaced by "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute >'get_sender' errors," and then all errors stopped and the lists on >the server started working again. I've seen reports of this error before and it appears to me to be a symptom of an underlying Python problem that causes incoming queue entries to be missing critical metadata. >My assumption is that Mailman was using up server resources to deal >with spam and a (few) files got corrupted, which files >were then recompiled on the creation of a new list. Creating a new list shouldn't cause anything to be recompiled or reloaded. >One interesting thing, the qfiles/shunt/*.pck files were owned:group >by mailman:mailman, but the most recent "AttributeError" .pck files >are owned:group root:mailman. How is it that Mailman started writing >files with root as the owner? Because it was root that ran the 'bin/mailmanctl start' so root owns the qrunner processes. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
