Ok I'm extremely irked.
Friday afternoon the classiccmp server decided it didn't have a slave drive.
It has done this once or twice before, for some reason the system can't see
the drive anymore so it flags it as non-existent. Usually after a reboot it
goes fine for a few months at least. Most odd. I'm guessing it's the crappy
Western Digital 160gb drive I bought. Don't think I'll be getting any more
Western Digital for a while. It came back up friday afternoon and I saw a
few emails go through the list so I assumed all was well again. Stupid Me.
So I promptly decided to ignore the list for the weekend, had a very full
weekend with lots of other stuff (work & home) to do. Sunday night I noticed
that the list hadn't passed any traffic since friday night. First thing I
checked was the drive, but that was ok. It was a very bizzare odd problem.
Sendmail appeared to be working fine but mailman wasn't queueing any
messages. Both inbound and outbound mail were definitely working though.
Odd - the pid files for mailman were dated in the future, but the system
date was correct (and had been). I tried pretty much every trick I could
think of to no avail. I finally gave up around 1am and said the heck with
it, I needed sleep and have some WorkStuff to take care of. Tonight will
probably be an all nighter due to a different work-related server issue. I
had even tried re-installing mailman 212, figuring a binary got corrupted in
the fiasco friday afternoon. No Joy. Looks like all messages were sent to
the shunt directory, which means a mailman executable failed. Some message
about can't unicode because bytes 0-4 are not cardinal. Ick.
So this morning I upgraded to mailman 2.1.4. That seems to have done the
trick. Pid files are still dated in the future though. What fun.
All appears to be back up and running. I apologize for the extended outtage.
You'll forgive me if I ignore this list for a few days, I just don't want to
think about the server for a bit. It's self-interest, I figure if I stay
away from it for a few days I won't be so ready to unplug it and chuck it
out the 2nd story datacenter window.
Regards,
Jay West
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