[Mailman-Users] Can someone please look at these errors?

[Jon Carnes]

Sounds like its having problems trying to upgrade. Try moving
/home/mailman to another place then recreate the directory empty (and
reset the rights (owner=mailman, group=mailman).

Now try installing into the empty directory.

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 20:43, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
> I sent this early this morning when I gave up on the upgrade for the day, I'd really like to have someone look at this so I can try again tonight.
> 
> Van
> 
> "G. Armour Van Horn" wrote:
> 
> > I've been running Mailman for most of two years, going from 2.0.5 to 2.0.12+ on a very lightly loaded K6-233. I've finally been convinced to move up. Last night I reved RedHat from 6.2 to 7.2, installed Python2 2.2.1, and generally brought things up to date.
> >
> > I also added virtual host support to Postfix, as I have a client that wants this on their new list. I am now hosting DNS for their domain, and mail to their domain through the Postfix-style virtual host works.
> >
> > I decided not to change the Mailman location at this time, so I used the following  config:
> >
> > ./configure --with-mail-gid=99 --with-cgi-gid=99 --prefix=/home/mailman --with-python=/usr/bin/python2
> >
> > The configure runs fine right down to the end where it tells me I don't have Chinese Unicode support and sends me off to a location where there aren't any files, but I don't really expect to have a lot of Chinese customers on here. It's the next step that is stopping me:
> >
> > make install runs smoothly for several minutes, but concludes with this:
> >
> > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/Version.py ...
> > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/__init__.py ...
> > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py ...
> > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ...
> > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "bin/update", line 44, in ?
> > >     import paths
> > > ImportError: No module named paths
> > > make: *** [update] Error 1
> > >
> >
> > The appropriate section in /usr/src/mailman-2.1b3/build/bin/update looks like this:
> >
> >
> > > import paths
> > > from Mailman import mm_cfg
> > > from Mailman import Utils
> > > from Mailman import MailList
> > > from Mailman.LockFile import TimeOutError
> > > from Mailman.i18n import _
> > > from Mailman.Queue.Switchboard import Switchboard
> > >
> >
> > I tried commenting them out one at a time, but each time I just had to comment out the next one. I blew away everything in the /home/mailman directory except the lists, logs, and archives and got the same result. Just to be thorough, I cleaned everything out, blew away the /usr/src/mailman-2.1b3 directory, extracted the install files again, and there was no change. I even downloaded another copy of the tarball.
> >
> > So what am I missing?
> >
> > Van
> >
> >
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