[Mailman-Users] need help with web interface bug

[Dan Simoes]

I recently switched my site from majordomo to mailman.  Everything has
been going great, until today, when I noticed that in some cases, users
cannot change their options through the web interface.

The error presented is the usual "Bug in Mailman..." and looks like
others that have been reported here (included below).

What is odd is that it will work fine for some lists, and not for
others.  

I would really appreciate some help on this one - I have compared file
permissions, etc and nothing is looking very obvious, but I am not that
familiar with the inner workings. 

The only thing I could think of doing was upgrading from beta5 to beta6
(done, did not fix the problem) and deleting the bad lists and
recreating them (haven't done that yet).

Thanks for any pointers, I've already checked the archives back a few
months.

| Dan |
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Bug in Mailman version 2.0beta6

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy
of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
happened. Thanks! 

Traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main
    main()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/handle_opts.py", line 85, in main
    process_form(mlist, user, doc)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/handle_opts.py", line 247, in
process_form
    mlist.ConfirmUserPassword(user, form['digpw'].value)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 155, in
ConfirmUserPassword
    if self.ValidAdminPassword(pw):
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 65, in
ValidAdminPassword
    return type(pw) == StringType and \
TypeError: argument 2: expected string without null bytes, string found





Python information:

     Variable
                                 Value
 sys.version
                 1.5.2 (#2, Aug 25 2000, 03:03:24) [GCC 2.8.1] 
 sys.executable
                 /usr/local/bin/python 
 sys.prefix
                 /usr/local 
 sys.exec_prefix
                 /usr/local 
 sys.path
                 /usr/local 
 sys.platform
                 sunos5 




Environment variables:

        Variable
                                              Value
 DOCUMENT_ROOT 
                       /files/www/audifans 
 SERVER_ADDR 
                       168.100.186.100 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 
                       gzip 
 CONTENT_LENGTH 
                       143 
 CONTENT_TYPE 
                       application/x-www-form-urlencoded 
 PATH_TRANSLATED 
                       /files/www/audifans/v8/dans at audifans.com 
 REMOTE_ADDR 
                       63.69.130.254 
 SERVER_SOFTWARE 
                       Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.3pl1 
 GATEWAY_INTERFACE 
                       CGI/1.1 
 UNIQUE_ID 
                       OgnLxqhkumQAAAH8VEg 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 
                       en 
 REMOTE_PORT 
                       46017 
 SERVER_PORT 
                       80 
 TZ 
                       US/Eastern 
 HTTP_USER_AGENT 
                       Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 
                       iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 
 HTTP_ACCEPT 
                       image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
image/pjpeg, image/png, */* 
 REQUEST_URI 
                       /mailman/handle_opts/v8/dans at audifans.com 
 PATH 
                       /usr/sbin:/usr/bin 
 QUERY_STRING 
 SERVER_PROTOCOL 
                       HTTP/1.0 
 PATH_INFO 
                       /v8/dans at audifans.com 
 HTTP_HOST 
                       www.audifans.com 
 REQUEST_METHOD 
                       POST 
 SERVER_SIGNATURE 
                       Apache/1.3.14 Server at www.audifans.com Port 80
 SCRIPT_NAME 
                       /mailman/handle_opts 
 SERVER_ADMIN 
                       dans at audifans.com 
 SCRIPT_FILENAME 
                       /home/mailman/cgi-bin/handle_opts 
 PYTHONPATH 
                       /home/mailman 
 HTTP_REFERER 
                       http://www.audifans.com/mailman/subscribe/v8 
 SERVER_NAME 
                       www.audifans.com 
 HTTP_CONNECTION 
                       Keep-Alive