[Mailman-Users] Bug reported when creating a new list from webpage

[Mark Dale]

Hi All

Can anyone shed any light on this error I get when creating a new list
from the webpage. (I can create lists okay from the "newlist" command)

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
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but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
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Jul 01 05:27:46 2008 (14663) command failed: /usr/sbin/postmap
/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
Jul 01 05:27:46 2008 admin(14663):
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admin(14663): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----]
admin(14663): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(14663): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(14663):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 110, in
run_main
admin(14663):     main()
admin(14663):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 56,
in main
admin(14663):     process_request(doc, cgidata)
admin(14663):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 238,
in process_request
admin(14663):     sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
admin(14663):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line
232, in create
admin(14663):     _update_maps()
admin(14663):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 60,
in _update_maps
admin(14663):     raise RuntimeError, msg % (vcmd, status, errstr)
admin(14663): RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postmap
/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
admin(14663): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(14663): sys.version     =   2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:17:30)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)]