Re: [Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Haumesser
As Mark suggested, I removed /var/lib/mailman/.keep, and this resolved the immediate errors. However, upon trying to visit the moderation page for another list, I was still getting (a now different) error in my logs about insecure permissions on a pickle. Using dumpdb, I found that pending.pck

Re: [Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

2011-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Chris Haumesser writes: > I was assuming the .keep folder had something to do with mailman > internals. That looks like a distro device to make sure that the data directories don't get deleted if you delete the package. Possibly what is happening is that the distro's version is patched to ign

Re: [Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Haumesser
On 4/22/11 7:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: If there are or were any config.db* files, they were left after migration from Mailman 2.0.x to 2.1.x and contained old data from before the migration. There are no config.db files in /var/lib/mailman, they are only mentioned in the log. The above seem

Re: [Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

2011-04-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chris Haumesser wrote: >My filesystem recently crashed, breaking some aspects of my mailman >installation. > >The email portion of the list itself is still functioning (for >non-digest subscribers), and all the archives are intact. But I seem to >be missing some config pickles that are preventi

[Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Haumesser
My filesystem recently crashed, breaking some aspects of my mailman installation. The email portion of the list itself is still functioning (for non-digest subscribers), and all the archives are intact. But I seem to be missing some config pickles that are preventing digest delivery, emergenc