[Mailman-Users] Mailman crash/error question

[Mark Sapiro]

On 05/31/2015 07:39 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> Recently the moderator of a mailing list I host got a Mailman error.  And this 
> is what was in Mailman's error log:
> 
> May 29 21:55:21 2015 admin(16001): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 
> admin(16001): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.16 -----] 
> admin(16001): [----- Traceback ------] 
> admin(16001): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(16001):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main
> admin(16001):     main()
> admin(16001):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 203, in main
> admin(16001):     process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata)
> admin(16001):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 785, in process_form
> admin(16001):     if id not in senderactions[sender]['message_ids']:
> admin(16001): KeyError: 'message_ids'
> admin(16001): [----- Python Information -----] 
> admin(16001): sys.version     =   2.4.3 (#1, Jan  9 2013, 06:47:03) 
> [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)] 
> admin(16001): sys.executable  =   /usr/bin/python 
> admin(16001): sys.prefix      =   /usr 
> admin(16001): sys.exec_prefix =   /usr 
> admin(16001): sys.path        =   ['/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib', '/usr/lib/mailman', '/usr/lib/mailman/scripts', '/usr/lib/mailman', '/usr/lib64/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages'] 
> admin(16001): sys.platform    =   linux2 
> admin(16001): [----- Environment Variables -----] 
> admin(16001):   HTTP_COOKIE: wendell-townsfolk+moderator=28020000006976186955732800000037663266333937633233343834636466636163626230326138666637653834613966616561613230 
> 
> This is on a CentOS 5.11 system (64bit), with Mailman 2.1.16 that I built as
> an RPM from the sources.
> 
> Is this something I need to worry about?  Or is it likely to have been caused 
> by an illformed spam message?


and on 05/31/2015 09:01 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> (Don't worry about the code reference if you're not prepared to look
> at it yourself, I just wanted to save Mark the time since I did look
> it up.)


Thanks ;)

This occurred when a moderator (already authenticated) submitted an
admindb form for the wendell-townsfolk list, and the post data from the
form was incomplete.

This probably occurred because for some reason, the http transaction
between the moderator's web browser and the web server on the Mailman
host got interrupted mid stream, or possibly the moderator went to an
admindb URL with some kind of query fragment, but insufficient data.

If there weren't more in the [----- Environment Variables -----] section
in the error log, that leans towards the interruption scenario. If there
were, I might be able to say more if I saw them.

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