[Mailman-Users] I guess it's my week for problems, sorry :(

[Richard Barrett]

I suggest you try the following procedure for the two problem list:

1. run bin/blow_away_htdig for the problem lists with the -c option to 
rebuild
per-list htdig conf files and delete existing per-list search indexes. 
This should delete the per-list htdig related stuff and remove the 
search form from those lists' archive TOC pages. It should not affect 
the HTML archives themselves

2. send a test message to each of the problem lists. This should ensure 
the per-list htdig related stuff (with the exception of the search 
indexes) is fully recreated and the search form is added back to those 
lists' archive TOC pages

3. run the nightly_htdig cron script from the command line for the two 
problem lists. This should rebuild the htdig search indexes

Let me know if this fixes the problem or not.

Were you originally running a version of the htdig integration patch 
earlier than that installed by htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch? If so this may be 
the cause of problems with archived lists created under that earlier 
regime. The upgrade issue was covered in the INSTALL.htdig-mm file for 
htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch or later and I am wondering if you have tripped 
over this issue.

The major change introduced by htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch was that htsearch 
is not called directly by the search forms. For security reason a CGI 
called mmsearch is called which in turn uses htsearch. This is 
described in INSTALL.htdig-mm

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 12:10  am, Glenn Sieb wrote:

> When I search two lists, I get this error: (Note: htdig is working for
> other lists just fine, just not *these two* lists...)
>
> htdig Archives Access Failure
>
>  The requested list cannot be accessed. list:list.htsearch
>
> If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go 
> via
> the list users information page.
>
> If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information 
> to
> the mailman at lists.wingfoot.org:
>
>     https://www.wingfoot.org/mailman/private/list/
>     /mailman/mmsearch/list
>
> Again, I run FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, MM 2.1.2, Postfix 2.0.10,
> postfix-to-mailman.py (for 2.1), and Apache 1.3.27 w/mod_perl.
>
> I did the following steps:
>
> 1) check_perms -f (didn't find anything)
> 2) went to /usr/local/mailman/archives/private and did:
>     chown -R mailman:mailman *
> 3) Restarted apache, same error
> 4) did /usr/local/mailman/bin/blow_away_htdig -v list
> 5) posted to list
> 6) did /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig -v list
> 7) restarted apache (for good measure), same error
>
> I have a /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch.. it works for other lists.. 
> :-/
>
> If I just go to the archives and click "Search" on these broken lists, 
> I get:
>
> htdig Archives Access Failure
> CGI problem. -5-Field count -4- fields: method,format,sort,config
>
> If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go 
> via
> the list users information page.
>
> If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information 
> to
> the mailman at lists.wingfoot.org:
>
>     https://www.wingfoot.org/mailman/private/list/
>     /mailman/mmsearch/list
>
> I even found an obscure reference and did the following:
>
> for list in `./list_lists | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v 50`; do 
> ./withlist
> -l -r fix_url $list;done
>
> That also didn't fix it.. :-/
>
> This is happening in both Mozilla and IE on my system...
>
> Help?
> *makes offers of chocolate*
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Glenn
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