Mark Sapiro wrote: > Brian Cohen wrote: > >> Ok, cool. Here's the traceback: >> >> Traceback: > > > This should be the traceback of the original error, but the attempt to > produce it produced the MemoryError exception which produced the > second traceback below. This is why the original traceback is not in > the 'error' log. > > >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 250, in ? >> run_main() >> File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 120, in run_main >> print_traceback(logger) >> File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 147, in print_traceback >> traceback.print_exc(file=logfp) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.py", line 210, in print_exc >> print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit, file) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.py", line 123, in print_exception >> print_tb(tb, limit, file) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.py", line 68, in print_tb >> line = linecache.getline(filename, lineno) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.py", line 14, in getline >> lines = getlines(filename) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.py", line 40, in getlines >> return updatecache(filename) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.py", line 93, in updatecache >> lines = fp.readlines() >> MemoryError > > > So what we know is we encounter a MemoryError in trying to print the > original traceback, so my guess is that was probably also due to a > MemoryError. > > Does the list that fails have a large number of members compared to the > other lists?
Just two members on this list. > > MemoryError means the underlying Python interpreter got a denial on an > attempt to allocate more memory (C's malloc() function). Is your web > server enforcing some memory limit on CGI processes? > Not that I know of... Thanks! -Brian ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp