[Mailman-Users] Trouble upgrading 2.0.8 -> 2.1.3

[Morgan Fletcher]

Morgan Fletcher <morgan at hahaha.org> writes:
> I've got a netbsd server which has a working 2.0.8 installation in
> /home/mailman. Python is 2.3. MTA is postfix. I've installed mailman
> 2.1.3 in /usr/local/mailman. The /usr/local/mailman is basically owned by
> root.mailman. I've copied the lists and archives files over to the new
> tree, but I've hit a problem. Can you help me? Here's what I've done, as
> root:

Another example of the same problem: Trying to visit the mailman/listinfo
page after the upgrade:

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 42, in main
    listinfo_overview()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 87, in listinfo_overview
    mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 617, in Load
    self.CheckValues()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 669, in CheckValues
    for name, pattern, desc, emptyflag in self.topics:
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 144, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, name
AttributeError: topics



Python information:

Variable	Value
sys.version	2.3 (#1, Nov 22 2003, 02:13:52) [GCC 3.3.2 (NetBSD nb1 20031026)]
sys.executable	/usr/pkg/bin/python
sys.prefix	/usr/pkg
sys.exec_prefix	/usr/pkg
sys.path	/usr/pkg
sys.platform	netbsd1

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