[Mailman-Users] AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'append'

[Peter Hessler]

I updated the version of Python that I have, to deal with a security update,
and one of my mailing lists died on me.  I properly stopped mailman (with
`mailmanctl -q stop`), then upgraded Python.  After that, I recompiled
Mailman and started it again.  The rest of my mailing lists are working just
fine, its just openbsd-newbies that is broken.  Searching the archives shows
several other users with similar issues, but no replies.  Any attempts at
using mailman tools to poke and prod at the broken list gives me the same
errors.

OpenBSD -current, using Python and Mailman from ports.  Python 2.3.4 and
Mailman 2.1.5.

$ /usr/local/lib/mailman/bin/update
...
Updating mailing list: sfobug
CHRIS: /var/spool/mailman/lists/sfobug/config.pck
Updating the held requests database.
- updating old private mbox file
    looks like you have a really recent CVS installation...
    you're either one brave soul, or you already ran me
- updating old public mbox file
    looks like you have a really recent CVS installation...
    you're either one brave soul, or you already ran me
Fixing language templates: sfobug

Updating mailing list: openbsd-newbies
CHRIS: /var/spool/mailman/lists/openbsd-newbies/config.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 780, in ?
    errors = main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 670, in main
    errors = errors + dolist(listname)
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 192, in dolist
    mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 594, in Load
    dict, e = self.__load(file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 567, in __load
    dict = loadfunc(fp)
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'append'



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