Hello,
I'm trying to get mailman3 working on Ubuntu.
I'm following these instructions:
https://docs.list.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html#setup-virtualenv
I've gotten to the point where I can successfully su - to the mailman3
user, and manually start the mailman3 process with the startup command.
However, when I follow the systemctl startup scripts as per the
instructions at the URL above, it get stuck in the startup ... forever
Starting from the command line works great!
(venv) mailman@arcus:~$ /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman start
Starting Mailman's master runner
Generating MTA alias maps
(venv) mailman@arcus:~$
(venv) mailman@arcus:~$ /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman status
GNU Mailman is running (master pid: 47815)
But when I try to start it from systemctl, it just hangs forever...
root@arcus:/etc/nginx# systemctl start mailman3
If I background it, and check it out from systemctl status, I get that It's
stuck in the startup mode.
root@arcus:/etc/nginx# systemctl status mailman3
● mailman3.service - GNU Mailing List Manager
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mailman3.service; enabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: activating (start) since Wed 2025-08-13 23:12:05 UTC; 29s ago
Process: 49024 ExecStart=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman start
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Tasks: 17 (limit: 4605)
Memory: 878.0M (peak: 878.5M)
CPU: 11.030s
I've tried this with and without the forking entry in the systemctl
configuration.
No matter what I do, it's stuck in the ...
Active: activating (start) since Wed 2025-08-13 23:13:37 UTC; 27s ago
What am I missing?
root@arcus:/etc/nginx# cat /etc/systemd/system/mailman3.service
[Unit]
Description=GNU Mailing List Manager
After=syslog.target network.target postgresql.service
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/opt/mailman/mm/var/master.pid
User=mailman
Group=mailman
Environment="MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg"
ExecStart=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman start
ExecReload=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman restart
ExecStop=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman stop
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=15
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
root@arcus:/#
--
Piet Barber
http://www.pietbarber.com/
http://blog.pietbarber.com/
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