On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 2:28 PM Christian <csa@web-analysts.net> wrote:
I meant to say I updated Buster.
When I ran 'sudo systemctl start mailman' I get
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Job for mailman.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mailman.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. root@lists:~# systemctl status mailman.service ● mailman.service - GNU Mailing List Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mailman.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-07-23 04:15:47 PDT; 10s ago Process: 1357 ExecStart=/opt/mailman/mm/bin/mailman start (code=exited, status=2)
Jul 23 04:15:46 lists.gaiapacha.ie systemd[1]: Starting GNU Mailing List Manager... Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie mailman[1357]: Usage: mailman start [OPTIONS] Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie mailman[1357]: Try 'mailman start -h' for help. process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
- Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie <http://lists.gaiapacha.ie> mailman[1357]: Error: A previous run of GNU Mailman did not exit cleanly (stale_lock). Try using --force* Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie systemd[1]: mailman.service: Control
Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie systemd[1]: mailman.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 23 04:15:47 lists.gaiapacha.ie systemd[1]: Failed to start GNU Mailing List Manager.
From the above, you see the bolded line? So do something like: systemctl restart mailman Alternatively: rm /opt/mailman/mm/var/locks/* Then: systemctl start mailman
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