Even more info (should have stated that in the first email):
This is a NFS share. So it might 'just' be a crappy net connection.
Any thoughts about this patch which I plan to apply locally?
Beware evil GMail linebreaks..
--- /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py.orig 2008-12-01
11:46:31.524425955 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py 2008-12-01
11:48:39.676765175 +0100
@@ -134,7 +134,19 @@
fp.write(msgsave)
cPickle.dump(data, fp, protocol)
fp.flush()
- os.fsync(fp.fileno())
+ # os.fsync(fp.fileno())
+ # Sometimes, the sync to our NFS share fails. This retries
+ # nine times and then gives up -- RichiH 081201
+ for trial in xrange(10):
+ try:
+ os.fsync(fp.fileno())
+ except OSError, e:
+ if trial == 9 or e.errno != errno.EIO:
+ raise
+ time.sleep(1)
+ continue
+ else:
+ break
finally:
fp.close()
finally:
Thanks,
Richars
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