July 5, 2022
6:26 p.m.
I solved my own problem and it was a stale master lock. I deleted all files in the locks directory that begin with master.lck as follows: "rm /var/lib/mailman3/locks/master.lck*"
See: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/Y...
So, it didn't have anything to do with the debian package upgrade but simply was a left over master lock that had not been deleted.
FYI,
Gordon