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

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi, it's time to go to bed here in Japan. ;-)

>>Hmm, but the traceback says your config.pck is broken. You should
>>use 'cat' or 'od' to read what your config.pck really has.
> 
> 
> "od" gives me an almost endless list of 9 columns with numbers. The

(snip)
then how about 'strings' ?

Other useful tool may be bin/check_db. Use -h option for usage.

If the .pck file is really a pickle file and not broken, following
operations give you no error. I suspect the package maintainer
had done something to the DB structure.

mailman% cd <prefix>/lists/<listname>
mailman% cp <prefix>/bin/paths.py .
mailman% python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Jun 23 2003, 15:54:19)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import paths
 >>> import pickle
 >>> x = pickle.load(file('config.pck'))
 >>> print x  (.... gives you contents of database)

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Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/