[Mailman-Users] Hit a bug but no error in logs

[Brian Cohen]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Brian Cohen wrote:
>> When I try to login to the admin interface for one specific mailing list
>> on my site (the others work ok) I get this:
>>
>> ----------
>> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5
>>
>> 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.
>> ----------
>>
>>
>> However when I check the error log on my server (it's
>> /var/log/mailman/error) there is nothing.
> 
> 
> Are you sure that's where Mailman's logs are? Check the setting of
> LOG_DIR in mm_cfg.py. If there isn't one, the logs are probably in the
> logs/ directory in the same mailman directory as lists/, data/,
> archives/, etc.

On my distro, the logs/ directory is symlinked to /var/log/mailman. It's 
definitely the right dir, there's other stuff being logged in the files 
there.

> 
> 
> That said, does anything work for this list? Can you get its listinfo
> page or its admindb page? Does it process mail, requests, etc.? If the
> answer to all of these is no, the lists/listname/config.pck file is
> probably corrupt. The first try is do move it aside, e.g. rename it
> config.pck.bad, and thus let Mailman try the config.pck.last which may
> be OK.
> 

Everything else works: listinfo, admindb, mail processing and requests. 
  Just admin triggers a bug.

-Brian