[Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi again.

>>Have you also tried "bin/update --force" ?

> However, it didn't help at all. Again, it stripped the backup-file
> (that I had renamed to config.pck before executing the above command)
> from 533 KB to 83 KB - and still the old (no good) subscriber list.

I guess there is config.pck.last and mailman fallbacks to it knowing
the backup config.pck is corrupted.

> Doing "perl dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/LISTNAME/config.pck" prints
> the following error:
> "Traceback (most recent[...]):
>    File "dumpdb", line 134, in ?
>      msg = main()
>    File "dumpdb", line 126, in main
>      m = pickle.load(open(filename))
> EOFError"

Hey! perl won't do the job, python do. Hmm, but the traceback says your
config.pck is broken. You should use 'cat' or 'od' to read what your
config.pck really has.

> Now this doesn't really help me. Except that something is definitely
> wrong. :-) 

Sorry, but something is definitely wrong!

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