[Mailman-Users] Interesting "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12"

[Mark Sapiro]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
>It exited with "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12".
>
>
>Webserver nor Mailman logs didn't give me a clue.


Mailman's 'error' log should have a a complete traceback and other
information about the error.


>I browsed Mailman installation files; lists/*/config.pck suspiciously 
>had a date of 1953.
>
>Touching these files ("find | xargs touch" in the lists dir) fixed the 
>problem.


I don't see how. The traceback from the error log could help identify
the real problem.


>Is it a bug or a feature in mailman, that when some files in "lists" 
>directory are really old, Mailman refuses to work with "Bug in Mailman 
>version 2.1.12"?


Neither. The timestamp on the files should have no effect.

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