[Mailman-Users] Strange errors

[John W. Baxter]

On 10/19/05 11:14 AM, "Dan Szkola" <szkola at tanis.cso.niu.edu> wrote:

> Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 
>> Dan Szkola wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Patched the admin script as suggested. When I saw the error this
>>> morning, I emailed
>>> to the admin address of our test list. Here is what I got:
>>> 
>>>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> I wouldn't have expected this, but I don't think it should matter.
>> 
>> What do you get if you add to the patch as follows
>> 
>> --- admin       2005-10-14 16:31:42.078125000 -0700
>> +++ admin_patched       2005-10-19 10:21:51.328125000 -0700
>> @@ -25,8 +25,16 @@
>> """
>> 
>> import sys
>> +from os import environ
>> +for env_var in environ:
>> +    print env_var, environ[env_var]
>> +for s_path in sys.path:
>> +    print 'before =', s_path
>> 
>> import paths
>> +for s_path in sys.path:
>> +    print 'after =', s_path
>> +
>> from Mailman import mm_cfg
>> from Mailman import Utils
>> from Mailman.i18n import _
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman
> AGENT sendmail
> before = /usr/local/mailman/scripts
> before = /usr/local/mailman
> before = /usr/local/lib/python24.zip
> before = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/
> before = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-sunos5
> before = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk
> before = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload
> after = /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib
> after = /usr/local/mailman
> after = /usr/local/mailman/scripts
> after = /usr/local/mailman
> after = /usr/local/lib/python24.zip
> after = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/
> after = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-sunos5
> after = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk
> after = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload
> after = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/admin", line 42, in ?
>     from Mailman.Queue.sbcache import get_switchboard
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/sbcache.py", line 19, in ?
>     from Mailman.Queue.Switchboard import Switchboard
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 47, in ?
>     from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 22, in ?
>     from Mailman.Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 20, in ?
>     from Mailman.Logging.Logger import Logger
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 25, in ?
>     from Mailman.Logging.Utils import _logexc
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Utils.py", line 18, in ?
>     import traceback
> ImportError: No module named traceback
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1
> 
> Oddly, the correct path statement is the only one with a trailing slash.


Have we eliminated the possibility that--due to some unfortunate
event--there really is no traceback module (or it can't be read)?

What do you get from
ls -l /usr/local/lib/python2.4/traceback.py

If it is there, does that file have world read permission?

Do you have multiple Python versions installed?

  --John