[Mailman-Users] Bug: "very low level failure"

[Donal Hunt]

Hey...

For once i'm completely stumped.

History:
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Python 2.1.1 on Solaris 8 (Sparc Edtion).
Apache 1.3.20.
Installed Mailman 2.0.6 using:

	configure --prefix=/local/mailman \
		--with-cgi-gid=webgroup \
		--with-mail-gid=postfix \
		--with-python=/usr/local/python

Everything seems to work (little problem with missing the python time
module, but sorted that).  However the web interface doesn't work at
all.

Just get the following message:

"Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even
generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the Mailman
administrator at this site."

The Apache error log shows:

---------------------------------------------------------------
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
[----- Mailman Version: 2.0.6 -----]
[----- Traceback ------]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 66, in run_main
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
[----- Mailman Version: 2.0.6 -----]
[----- Traceback ------]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 229, in ?
[Mailman: low level unrecoverable exception]
---------------------------------------------------------------

Had a quick look through the archives, but didn't find anything.  Found
something Barry wrote in the comp.lang.python newsgroup that explains
why it's happening (it's a comment in :

---------------------------------------------------------------
# Some exception percolated all the way back up to the top.  This
# generally shouldn't happen because the run_main() call is similarly
# wrapped, but just in case, we'll give it one last ditch effort to
report 
# problems to *somebody*.  Most likely this will end up in the Web
server
# log file.
---------------------------------------------------------------

I had a quick look through src/cgi-wrapper.c, src/common.c and
src/vsnprintf.c (they are used to build driver afair) but couldn't see
anything wrong there...

So... Anyone got an idea why it's breaking?? Anyone had a similar
problem with Mailman 2.0.6??

Regards

Donal

p.s. Cross-posted to mailman-users and mailman-developers.