[ale] FYI: mailing list (un)subscription error

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 11:59:29 EDT 2008


Fixed. The pending.pck and request.pck files were corrupted. Normal
sub/unsub is restored.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a heads up notice for the list.
> The python code that runs the subscription/unsubscription process is
> croaking at the moment. For the curious, the error log section is below.
>
> admin(2278): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(2278): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in
> run_main
> admin(2278):     main()
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 96,
> in main
> admin(2278):     process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 176,
> in process_form
> admin(2278):     mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 874, in
> AddMember
> admin(2278):     cookie = self.pend_new(Pending.SUBSCRIPTION, userdesc)
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 65, in
> pend_new
> admin(2278):     db = self.__load()
> admin(2278):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 95, in
> __load
> admin(2278):     return cPickle.load(fp)
> admin(2278): EOFError
>
> The EOFError is the problem. Apparently the 6k+ file was too much to handle
> at the pending.pck and friends are messed up.
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
>


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James P. Kinney III
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