[Mailman-Users] New apache is causing my mailman to fail...

Thu Nov 21 20:01:23 CET 2002

Hi Tom!

Sorry, left out the server info... Installing on Solaris 2.6 using the:
* 2170570 Aug  9 13:54:01 2002 openssl-0.9.6g.tar.gz  [LATEST] *
from openssl.org.

For openssl source, I ncompressed and did (as INSTALL suggested):

$ ./config
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ make install

Nothing failed along the way.

If I reinstalled openssl again (although, since there were no failures when I 
first installed it, I wouldn't expect there to be now), would I need to 
reinstall python, since python likes to configure itself with ssl, if ssl 
exists?

Steve

> From: "Thomas Oakes" <tomoakes at usa.net>
> To: "Steve Rifkin" <steve410 at cs.jhu.edu>, <mailman-users at python.org>
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] New apache is causing my mailman to fail...
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:55:47 -0500

> 
> From this line in the traceback,
> /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6: bad ELF flags value: 768
> I looks like you have a problem with your new install of openssl.
> 
> How did you install it? A package? and what OS are you using.
> 
> You might reinstall openssl from source if possible.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what the 'bad ELF flags value' means but it sounds
> like you're using a precompiled openssl library on a system that doesn't
> support it.
> 
> "Use the source, Luke"
> 
> ==Tom==
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces+tomoakes=usa.net at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+tomoakes=usa.net at python.org]On Behalf Of
> Steve Rifkin
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:04 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Cc: steve410 at cs.jhu.edu
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] New apache is causing my mailman to fail...
> 
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> I'm currently running Mailman version 2.0.8.
> 
> Until last week, our Apache webserver (1.3.14) interfaced with our Mailman
> just
> fine.
> 
> Last week, we needed to upgrade our Apache Web server to 1.3.27.
> 
> We also had to upgrade our openssl to the latest version (version OpenSSL
> 0.9.6g
> 9 Aug 2002)
> 
> We're also running Python version 2.2.2.
> 
> Since then, we've been getting the following error attempting to access
> mailman
> lists from our website:
> 
> =================================
> 
> Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8
> 
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> 
> Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> traceback
> and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the
> webmaster
> can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> 
> ===================================
> 
> I even tried reinstalling Python to make sure it saw the updated OPENSSL
> stuff.
> 
> Anyway, from the web, when we do a mailman/listinfo and get the above error,
> the
> mailman error log reports:
> 
> Nov 21 11:03:35 2002 admin(18834):
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> admin(18834): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.8 -----]
> admin(18834): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(18834): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(18834):   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 80, in run_main
> admin(18834):     import Mailman.pythonlib.cgi
> admin(18834):   File "../Mailman/pythonlib/cgi.py", line 31, in ?
> admin(18834):     import urllib
> admin(18834):   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
> admin(18834):     import socket
> admin(18834):   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
> admin(18834):     from _socket import *
> admin(18834): ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal:
> /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6: bad ELF flags value: 768
> admin(18834): [----- Python Information -----]
> admin(18834): sys.version    = 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 20 2002, 18:28:42)
> [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)]
> admin(18834): sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python
> admin(18834): sys.prefix     = /usr/local
> admin(18834): sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local
> admin(18834): sys.path       = /usr/local
> admin(18834): sys.platform   = sunos5
> admin(18834): [----- Environment Variables -----]
> admin(18834):   HTTP_PRAGMA: no-cache
> admin(18834):   PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman
> admin(18834):   SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3
> mod_perl/1.27
> admin(18834):   SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo
> admin(18834):   SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster at cs.jhu.edu
> admin(18834):   SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/listinfo
> admin(18834):   SCRIPT_URI: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo
> admin(18834):   SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.27 Server at
> www.cs.jhu.edu Port 80</ADDRESS>
> 
> Note the Import error above.
> 
> So... again, it worked until we installed the new Apache and new openssl.
> Then,
> it stopped working giving the above errors.  Rebuilding python did not help.
> 
> Any ideas of what I can try?  Is there really a bug in our version of
> Mailman?
> And should I be reinstalling Mailman?  or is there an easier fix?
> 
> Thanks a bunch in advance, and if you could seperately CC: me on your post
> to
> the mailman list, that would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> steve410 at cs.jhu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
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