[Mailman-Users] cgi-script "low level failure"

[Don Burns]

I'm on a lot of different mailing lists, so after getting the answer to
this question I selfishly disabled my mail delivery on the mailman list.  
However, I've been contacted by a couple of folks privately with the same
problem.  So, let me   post the solution for anyone else who may be 
getting the same issue.

To reiterate, the problem presents itself when access to any of the 
mailman scripts (e.g. http://somewhere/mailman/listinfo) produces a "low 
level failure" with no traceback.

What seems to be common here is the occurance on SUSE.  In my search for a 
solution I found that this occurs with on auto-update on Suse - patch 10 
for mailman 2.1.4 to be exact. See:

    http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/91_i386.html

What's interesting is that this patch can be installed without a 
dependency: python-xml.

So, if you are encoutering this problem, the likely problem is that you
are missing a dependency, and the solution is drop-dead easy:  Just
install python-xml


-don