[Mailman-Users] Hmmm

[Doug Hall]

Beautiful!
I uninstalled, deleted the config files, and reinstalled.. Worked a 
treat. Thanks.
Doug


Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Doug Hall wrote:
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>>What does this mean?
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>>[root at futurenameservers mailman]# service mailman start
>>
>>Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last):
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>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 606, in ?
>>
>>   main()
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>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 425, in main
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>>   check_for_site_list()
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>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 325, in check_for_site_list
>>
>>   sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0)
>>
>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
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>>   self.Load()
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>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 593, in Load
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>>   dict, e = self.__load(file)
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>> File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 566, in __load
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>>   dict = loadfunc(fp)
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>>umbrella_listqbI00dule named n.co.ukq_aban_listq`]qaU
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>>                                                          [FAILED]
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>I think it means the configuration files for the site list (normally
>named mailman) are corrupt.
>
>There may be messages in Mailman's 'error' log indicating what files
>were tried.
>
>Normally (if the list is named mailman) there will be a
>lists/mailman/config.pck and a lists/mailman/config.pck.last and these
>will be tried in that order. There may be old (pre 2.1alpha3)
>config.db and config.db/last files if the list is that old. I'm
>guessing the config.pck is corrupt and caused the error and others
>weren't tried.
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