[Mailman-Users] Error message on upgrade

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Quoting Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:

> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>
>> I upgraded our version of mailman from 2.0.x to the newest release of
>> 2.1.12rc2 using ./configure --prefix=/var/mailman
>> --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.4.  I started
>> mailman using the mailmanctl script.  As soon as I did, I started
>> getting the following error from the qrunner:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 89, in ?
>>     from Mailman.Handlers import HandlerAPI
>>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 26, in ?
>>     from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO
>> ImportError: No module named pythonlib.StringIO.
>
>
> The latest official release is 2.1.12, not 2.1.12rc2. There was at
> least one significant bug fix between rc2 and the final.
>
> As far as the above error is concerned, qrunners are no longer run by
> cron in mailman 2.1.x. cron is running /var/mailman/cron/qrunner which
> is from 2.0 and clearly won't work. You need to update Mailman's
> crontab to run the 2.1 cron jobs only.
>
> Actually, your 2.1.12rc1 Mailman is probably working fine. It's just
> that
> /var/mailman/cron/qrunner should be removed and the entry that runs it
> removed from Mailman's crontab.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>

Mark,
Thanks for the reply.  I ran mailmanctl and was still getting the same  
error.  I'll try recompiling again with 2.1.12.  Does the cron  
directory not get replaced when running make install?



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