[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: unknownencoding:us-ascii

[rpyne at kinfolk.org]

On 2 Mar 2009 at 10:24, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> rpyne at kinfolk.org wrote:
> >
> > # python
> >Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 28 2009, 15:18:21)
> >[GCC 4.2.4] on linux2
> >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
> >information.
> >
> >
> >I re-ran the configure and install of mailman, ran unshunt and the
> >errors still show using python 2.5:
> 
> 
> What does config.log show for your configure command line and for
> things like the following:
> 
> configure:1714: checking for --with-python
> configure:1726: result: no
> configure:1733: checking for python
> configure:1751: found /usr/bin/python
> configure:1764: result: /usr/bin/python
> configure:1774: checking Python interpreter
> configure:1792: result: /usr/bin/python
> configure:1796: checking Python version
> configure:1829: result: 2.6.1
> configure:1833: checking Python's email package
> configure:1866: result: ok
> 
> (the first several lines after
> 
> ## ----------- ##
> ## Core tests. ##
> ## ----------- ##


configure:1714: checking for --with-python
configure:1726: result: /usr/bin/python
configure:1774: checking Python interpreter
configure:1792: result: /usr/bin/python
configure:1796: checking Python version
configure:1829: result: 2.6.1
configure:1833: checking Python's email package
configure:1866: result: ok
configure:1872: checking that Python has a working distutils
configure:1921: result: yes
configure:1969: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2025: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2036: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)

> 
> 
> >Mar 02 10:39:45 2009 (30280) SHUNTING: 
> >1236015583.0520451+8058beae403d3fbac5f2571929549c19e2125acd
> >Mar 02 10:39:53 2009 (30278) Uncaught runner exception: unknown
> >encoding: us-ascii Mar 02 10:39:53 2009 (30278) Traceback (most
> >recent call last):
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop
> >    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile
> >    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in 
> >_dispose
> >    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in 
> >_dopipeline
> >    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py", line 111, in 
> >process
> >    g.flatten(p)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 109, in _write
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 135, in 
> >_dispatch
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 201, in 
> >_handle_multipart
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 116, in _write
> >  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py", line 84, in 
> >_write_headers
> >    Generator._write_headers(self, msg)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 150, in 
> >_write_headers
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 26, in 
> >_is8bitstring
> >LookupError: unknown encoding: us-ascii
> >
> >Mar 02 10:39:54 2009 (30278) SHUNTING: 
> >1236014500.0552149+8a7b01ddc869ad3d723ffcadca4644d72858e68b
> 
> 
> Are you also getting many errors like the following?
> 
> >Mar 02 10:39:54 2009 (30278) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file:
> >/var/mailman/qfiles/in/1236014500.0552149+5aed32c1bfbe6e4ac85c02c3518
> >5 46e179e37b02.bak

Yes:

Mar 02 11:23:49 2009 (13849) Skipping and preserving unparseable 
message: 1236014500.0552149+80fb5a8a97a8d0c248a1d845d2d05094c2a5fa49
Mar 02 11:23:49 2009 (13849) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: 
/var/mailman/qfiles/out/1236014500.0552149+80fb5a8a97a8d0c248a1d845d2d
05094c2a5fa49.bak

Since the only thing on the server that is (intentionally) using 
Python, I deleted the /lib/python2.5 and /usr/lib/python2.5 
directories and have reinstalled Python, reinstalled Mailman and 
rebooted the server.

It appears to have cleared things up as I ran unshunt and now all of 
the qfiles except bad are empty and several previously shunted emails 
are delivering.

Thanks.