[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#494065: Bug#494065: mailman: Incorrect properties of symbolic links makes it crash hard on startup

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hello Magnus,

On Thursday 7 August 2008 03:45, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> The Debianization of Mailman 2.1.11 has failed on a critical aspect, the
> properties of /var/lib/mailman/locks and /var/lib/mailman/logs made it
> impossible for Mailman to operate properly. The symbolic links used to
> point to ../../locks/mailman and ../../log/mailman (respectively) was not
> sufficient to make Mailman operational. The locks failed directly, causing
> Mailman to fail on start. The logs made it die within a minute.

Thank you for your report. However, here I don't experience the problem you 
are sketching: doing a fresh install I can start mailman and it keeps 
running. The logs are there and it doesn't die.

I'm a bit puzzled by what you describe: mailman failed to start but died after 
a minute? If it fails to start it dies immediately, or do you mean something 
differently? Just for the record, mailman has had these symbolic links in 
this fasion for years. Of course something could have changed in Mailman, but 
it isn't a new setup.

In any case this bug needs further research to decide where the problem lies 
exactly because, as said, it works here so it isn't a generic problem that 
occurs for everyone. I'm off for a few days, perhaps someone else of the team 
can get to some more details in the meantime. Otherwise I'll pick it up when 
I get back.
 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)

Just a note, probably not related to this issue, but you're running a kernel 
from stable on an unstable system. I don't think that is a supported 
combination.


cheers,
Thijs
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