[Mailman-Users] upgrade issue

Mon Sep 25 16:51:30 CEST 2006

One of our bone-headed admins was playing around on the server and "broke" something in Mailman.

Rather than try to fix it (I'm not a Python programmer!), I decided it was time for an update via ports anyway.

We get the following string of errors during the upgrade phase, then a stop:

Updating mailing list: river_city_referrals
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/update", line 789, in ?
    errors = main()
  File "bin/update", line 679, in main
    errors = errors + dolist(listname)
  File "bin/update", line 192, in dolist
    mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 629, in Load
    dict, e = self.__load(file)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 602, in __load
    dict = loadfunc(fp)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'append'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman/work/mailman-2.1.9.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.

In addition, when attempting to use the CGI interface, it does not run.  We get the following errors (in the httpd-error log -- we're running Apache 2.0.54)

[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] [----- Traceback ------]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 82, in run_main
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]     immediate=1)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in __init__
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]     Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 50, in __init__
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]     self.__get_f()
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 68, in __get_f
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]     1)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 666, in open
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]     file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error'
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] [----- Python Information -----]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.version     = 2.4.3 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 19:01:16)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] [GCC 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.executable  = /usr/local/bin/python2.4
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.prefix      = /usr/local
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.exec_prefix = /usr/local
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.path        = /usr/local
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] sys.platform    = freebsd6
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] [----- Environment Variables -----]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tforce_response_1_0: 1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.0.58 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.0.58 OpenSSL/0.9.7g DAV/2 PHP/4.4.1 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/confirm
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.0.58 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.0.58 OpenSSL/0.9.7g DAV/2 PHP/4.4.1 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7 Server at secure.downtownhelpdesk.com Port 443</address>
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42]
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tREQUEST_METHOD: GET
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tPATH_INFO: /river_city_referrals/95ea391a71ec4c05acf43009aeb2dc8e2bd26528
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tQUERY_STRING:
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2)
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_NAME: secure.downtownhelpdesk.com
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tREMOTE_ADDR: 67.103.106.42
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tPATH_TRANSLATED: /usr/www/sites/1fast.us/river_city_referrals/95ea391a71ec4c05acf43009aeb2dc8e2bd26528
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_PORT: 443
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_ADDR: 192.168.254.34
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tDOCUMENT_ROOT: /usr/www/sites/1fast.us
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tPYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tSERVER_ADMIN: webmaster at downtownhelpdesk.com
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_HOST: secure.downtownhelpdesk.com
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTPS: on
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tREQUEST_URI: /mailman/confirm/river_city_referrals/95ea391a71ec4c05acf43009aeb2dc8e2bd26528
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_ACCEPT: */*
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tnokeepalive: 1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tGATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tREMOTE_PORT: 2126
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tdowngrade_1_0: 1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tssl_unclean_shutdown: 1
[Mon Sep 25 10:46:49 2006] [error] [client 67.103.106.42] \tHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate

Any assisstance would be most appreciated!