[Mailman-Users] queue runner keeps crashing

[Franz Georg Köhler]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:53:19PM +0200, Franz Georg Köhler <lists at openunix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:12:49PM +0100, Richard Barrett <R.Barrett at ftel.co.uk> wrote:
> > At 15:35 12/08/2002 +0200, Franz Georg =?iso-8859-15?Q?K=F6hler?= wrote:
> >>All of the sudden, Mailman V. 2.0.11 stopped working, I'm getting those
> >>messages in the log file:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>Mailman successfully receives mail but is unable to re-distribute it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>update:
> >>I just upgraded to V. 2.0.12 with a slight hope this could solve
> >>my problem, however, it still exists.
> >>
> >>
> >>I'll be grateful for all hints that might lead to solving this.
> > 
> > Upgrade to MM 2.0.13 which, amongst other things, cures this leakage of 
> > Python 2.x functionality into code that should be Python 1.x compatible or 
> > upgrade your Python installation to 2.1 or 2.2.
> > 
> > fyi the problem is that various functions from the string module became 
> > member functions of string objects in Python 2.0 and above. The usage 
> > causing the problem:
> > 
> >         msg.get('precedence', '').lower
> > 
> > should have been coded as follows to be Python 1.x compatible:
> > 
> >         string.lower(msg.get('precedence', ''))
> > 
> > I believe MM 2.0.13 fixes these glitches that appeared post 2.0.8 if I 
> > recollect correctly; the one you've stumbled on was not alone.
> 
> I upgraded to python 2.1:
> 
> # dpkg --list |grep pytho
> ii  python         2.1.3-3        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
> ii  python2.1      2.1.3-3        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
> 
> and, as proposed, mail delivery is working now.
> 
> 
> However, I now do have some strange messages in my log, which
> indicate an error related to the web-interface:

This is probably a bug in Debian's release of Mailman 2.0.12-2 .

Waiting for 2.0.12-3....



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