Howdy,

I just had a list corruption today - twice - with no smoking gun in the
log files that indicated the cause of the problem, just that the list
database became corrupted (see error messages below).  It's a list of
about 22,000 people at the moment.

I was able to dump the list members and list configuration, delete the
list, and recreate it.  However, it became corrupted again a few hours
later, although not as badly.  In the first corruption, the list was
unusable by the web interface.  The second time, it "fixed" itself, in
that the web interface started working again.  I investigated further, and
I discovered a lot of broken locks (which seems odd, given a lifetime of
five hours by default):

Aug 13 08:44:14 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking
Aug 13 11:14:07 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking
Aug 13 12:40:41 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking
Aug 13 15:11:50 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking
Aug 13 15:58:56 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking
Aug 13 16:26:56 2003 (911) thebody.lock lifetime has expired, breaking

Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but it's the only unusual
thing.  I also noted that the dates on the locks are often in the future;
perhaps this is by design, it's certainly very strange.  The locks are
appearing/disappearing appropriately, as far as I can tell, and nothing
strange is showing up otherwise.

I've stopped and restarted the master mailman process, and dumped/restored
the list again, and all appears well.  Any suggestions on where to start?
I'm running the latest mailman 2.1.2, on Solaris 2.8, with Python 2.2.2.
Haven't had any problems with the machine or memory that have showed up in
the logs.

Thanks in advance,

David.

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Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 (22680) couldn't load config file 
/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.pck
Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 (22680) couldn't load config file 
/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.pck.last
Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 (22680) couldn't load config file 
/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db'
Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 (22680) couldn't load config file 
/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last'
Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 (22680) All thelist fallbacks were corrupt, giving up
Aug 13 17:01:40 2003 admin(22680): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
admin(22680): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.2 -----]
admin(22680): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(22680): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(22680):   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
admin(22680):     main()
admin(22680):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 162, in main
admin(22680):     mlist.Lock()
admin(22680):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock
admin(22680):     self.Load()
admin(22680):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 598, in Load
admin(22680):     raise Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError, e
admin(22680): MMCorruptListDatabaseError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/home/mailman/lists/
thelist/config.db.last'
admin(22680): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(22680): sys.version     =   2.2.2 (#1, Feb  4 2003, 14:15:12)
[GCC 3.2.1]
admin(22680): sys.executable  =   /usr/local/bin/python
admin(22680): sys.prefix      =   /opt/python/2.2.2
admin(22680): sys.exec_prefix =   /opt/python/2.2.2
admin(22680): sys.path        =   /opt/python/2.2.2
admin(22680): sys.platform    =   sunos5
admin(22680): [----- Environment Variables -----]
admin(22680):   HTTP_COOKIE: 
thelist+admin=28020000006988523a3f7328000000633165626261613432313637316
66631633863613437326636386435353365623233326666623938
admin(22680):   SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6c
admin(22680):   PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman
admin(22680):   SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi
admin(22680):   SERVER_ADMIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
admin(22680):   SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/admin.cgi
admin(22680):   REQUEST_METHOD: GET
admin(22680):   HTTP_HOST: mailman.chelsea.net
admin(22680):   PATH_INFO: /thelist
admin(22680):   SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
admin(22680):   QUERY_STRING:
admin(22680):   TZ: US/Eastern
admin(22680):   REQUEST_URI: /cgi-bin/admin.cgi/thelist
admin(22680):   HTTP_ACCEPT: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, 
application/msword
, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, 
application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
admin(22680):   HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
admin(22680):   HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
admin(22680):   SERVER_NAME: mailman.chelsea.net
admin(22680):   REMOTE_ADDR: 209.212.72.130
admin(22680):   REMOTE_PORT: 5086
admin(22680):   HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
admin(22680):   PATH_TRANSLATED: /home/mailman/htdocs/thelist
admin(22680):   SERVER_PORT: 80
admin(22680):   GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
admin(22680):   HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
admin(22680):   SERVER_ADDR: 209.212.66.37

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