[Mailman-Developers] invite/confirm traceback

Fil fil at rezo.net
Tue Jun 3 15:43:36 EDT 2003


> I'm experimenting an "invite_members" command-line script derived from the
> add_members script. It does send a request for confirmation, but the
> confirmation email does not get processed, and no traceback show up in the
> logs. However, if I try the web confirmation, I get this traceback.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 98, in main
>     content = Pending.confirm(cookie, expunge=0)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 111, in confirm
>     db = _load()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 163, in _load
>     return cPickle.load(fp)
> SystemError: Failed to import class UserDesc from module __main__

My script must have played fool: somehow the data/pending.pck file was
generating the error. I just removed it from that folder and Mailman is now
running fine.

-- Fil




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