I'm using Scrapy's built-in CrawlOnce middleware, and when I stop and restart a job, I sometimes get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/tasks/crawl.py", line 250, in crawl
    crawler_proc.start()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 346, in start
    reactor.run(installSignalHandlers=False)  # blocking call
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 1318, in run
    self.mainLoop()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 1328, in mainLoop
    reactorBaseSelf.runUntilCurrent()
--- <exception caught here> ---
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 994, in runUntilCurrent
    call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/utils/reactor.py", line 51, in __call__
    return self._func(*self._a, **self._kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 157, in _next_request
    self.crawl(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 247, in crawl
    self._schedule_request(request, self.spider)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 252, in _schedule_request
    if not self.slot.scheduler.enqueue_request(request):  # type: ignore[union-attr]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/core/scheduler.py", line 241, in enqueue_request
    dqok = self._dqpush(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/core/scheduler.py", line 280, in _dqpush
    self.dqs.push(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/pqueues.py", line 89, in push
    self.queues[priority] = self.qfactory(priority)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/pqueues.py", line 76, in qfactory
    return create_instance(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 166, in create_instance
    instance = objcls.from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/squeues.py", line 68, in from_crawler
    return cls(crawler, key)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/squeues.py", line 64, in __init__
    super().__init__(key)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/scrapy/squeues.py", line 23, in __init__
    super().__init__(path, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/queuelib/queue.py", line 208, in __init__
    (self.size,) = struct.unpack(self.SIZE_FORMAT, qsize)
struct.error: unpack requires a buffer of 4 bytes

Deleting the request queue fixes it, but this causes another issue: If pagination exists in the request flow, stopping the spider at an intermediate paginated URL and then deleting the queue results in losing the pagination state. Since my crawler starts only with base URLs provided in an input file, it loses track of subsequent pagination requests that would have been generated dynamically.