@ Abhilash Raj - Thanks for your swift reply. It worked. I terminated it wrongly last time I suppose.
@ Mark Sapiro - Yes, there was a stale lock file not associated with any process. Removed it. And I'll go through the FAQ. Thanks! On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > On 02/08/2016 08:42 AM, Aditya Divekar wrote: >> I got the following error when I was trying to start the mailman service >> today - >> >> master: error: The master lock could not be acquired. It appears as >> though there is a stale master lock > > > The service was not gracefully stopped the last time it was running and > left the master lock behind. The FAQ at > <http://wiki.list.org/x/17891756> describes how locks are implemented in > Mailman 2.1, but Mailman 3 is similar. > > There is a var/locks/ directory in your Mailman hierarchy. In it you > will see two files. in MM 2.1, they would be named master-qrunner and > master-qrunner.hostname.pid. In MM 3 they will be similar. Assuming > there is no process with PID = pid running on hostname, you can safely > remove those files. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > Mailman-Developers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/adityadivekar03%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9