[Mailman-Users] Mailman Bug?/no Admin level web access

ewstahl at aol.com ewstahl at aol.com
Mon May 16 20:14:02 CEST 2005


I'm hoping someone can help me fix this. I installed mailman, and 
couldn't figure out why the web interface didn't work. It seems I CAN 
access any of the pages, but the admin ones. I get a lovely message in 
the browser:
"Bug in Mailman version 2.1.6rc3

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of 
traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, 
but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. "

My mailman log shows nothing, hasn't been updated since May 10th, but 
Apache's log shows  useful information:
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Mailman 
Version: 2.1.6rc3 -----]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Traceback 
------]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Traceback (most 
recent call last):
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
"/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 82, in run_main
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     immediate=1)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in 
__init__
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     
Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 49, in __init__
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     self.__get_f()
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 67, in __get_f
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     1)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
"/usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.py", line 566, in open
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     file = 
__builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] IOError: [Errno 
13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error'
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Python 
Information -----]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.version     =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 
2005, 12:11:53)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [GCC 3.4.2 
20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.executable  =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/python
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.prefix      =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.exec_prefix =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.path        =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.platform    =
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] linux2
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- 
Environment Variables -----]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tSERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSCRIPT_NAME: 
/mailman/admin.cgi
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tSERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server at 
imcserver.gotdns.org Port 80</address>
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREQUEST_METHOD: 
GET
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tSERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tQUERY_STRING:
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) 
Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_NAME: 
imcserver.gotdns.org
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREMOTE_ADDR: 
127.0.0.1
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tPATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/html/mailman
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_PORT: 80
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_ADDR: 
127.0.0.1
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tDOCUMENT_ROOT: 
/var/www/html
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tPYTHONPATH: 
/usr/local/mailman
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tSCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/www/html/cgi-bin/admin.cgi
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_ADMIN: 
root at imcserver.gotdns.org
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTTP_HOST: 
imcserver.gotdns.org
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREQUEST_URI: 
/mailman/admin.cgi/mailman
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTTP_ACCEPT: 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tGATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREMOTE_PORT: 
58483
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
\tHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tPATH_INFO: 
/mailman
[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]

Is there a simple way to fix the admin interface without breaking the 
rest?  I'm using my aol address to make sure I get my mail.

Elissa



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