[Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

[Alexander Baldauf]

Hi

last weekend, we updated mailman to version 2.1.5, but after the update, 
it's not possible to add new members to any list. There ist just a error 
message like this:


    Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5


      We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy 
of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
happened. Thanks!


        Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 175, in main
    change_options(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 1339, in change_options
    whence='admin mass sub')
TypeError: ApprovedAddMember() got an unexpected keyword argument 'whence'



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        Python information:

Variable 	Value
sys.version 	2.3+ (#1, Feb 7 2005, 18:30:23) [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)]
sys.executable 	/usr/bin/python
sys.prefix 	/usr
sys.exec_prefix 	/usr
sys.path 	/usr
sys.platform 	linux2

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        Environment variables:

Variable 	Value
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER 	www.dfki.de
HTTP_REFERER 	http://www.dfki.de/mailman/admin/anvil/members/add
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 	en-us,en;q=0.5
SERVER_SOFTWARE 	Apache/1.3.28 (Linux/SuSE)
SCRIPT_NAME 	/mailman/admin
SERVER_SIGNATURE 	
REQUEST_METHOD 	POST
PATH_INFO 	/anvil/members/add
SERVER_PROTOCOL 	HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING 	
CONTENT_LENGTH 	1031
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_USER_AGENT 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) 
Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1
HTTP_CONNECTION 	close
HTTP_COOKIE 
anvil+admin=280200000069bd4cba43732800000063326537613465663231353832383565386130353662306339343964616164383166393062313963 

SERVER_NAME 	www.dfki.de/pipermail
REMOTE_ADDR 	134.96.188.10
PATH_TRANSLATED 	/srv/www/htdocs/anvil/members/add
SERVER_PORT 	80
SERVER_ADDR 	134.96.188.26
DOCUMENT_ROOT 	/srv/www/htdocs
PYTHONPATH 	/usr/lib/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME 	/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin
SERVER_ADMIN 	you at your.address
HTTP_HOST 	mail.dfki.de
REQUEST_URI 	/mailman/admin/anvil/members/add
HTTP_ACCEPT 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 

GATEWAY_INTERFACE 	CGI/1.1
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR 	134.96.188.153
REMOTE_PORT 	43279
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST 	www.dfki.de
CONTENT_TYPE 	multipart/form-data; 
boundary=---------------------------185487932018472925631678055047
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 	gzip,deflate

We searched in the admin.py but we didn't find the error.

Greets
Alexander Baldauf

P.S. A happy new year to all


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