[Mailman-Users] Error while searching the archives

Tue Jul 19 04:56:36 EDT 2016

On 19 July 2016 at 03:36, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 07/18/2016 03:17 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a strange problem here. When I try a search on my list archives, I
>> see this on the browser:
>>
>> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.22
>>
> ...
>
>> And in the error log I see the details here ->:
>> http://gw.kictanet.or.ke/~wash/error.txt
>>
>
>
> The traceback is
>
> admin(46841): Traceback (most recent call last):
>> admin(46841):   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in
>> run_main
>> admin(46841):     main()
>> admin(46841):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.py", line
>> 213, in main
>> admin(46841):     child = Popen(cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
>> admin(46841):   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710,
>> in __init__
>> admin(46841):     errread, errwrite)
>> admin(46841):   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335,
>> in _execute_child
>> admin(46841):     raise child_exception
>> admin(46841): OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>
>
> which says Popen can't execute cmd because of the Errno2, No such file or
> directory.
>
> cmd is whatever you have configured for HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH in mm_cfg.py.
> The default in Defaults.py is
>
> HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/htsearch'
>
> Does HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH contain a path to the htdig htsearch program in
> your installation?

In mm_cfg.py, I have:

HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH = '/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch'

I tried running it:

root at gw:/usr/home/wash # /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
Enter value for words: walu
Content-type: text/html

<html><head><title>htsearch error</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<h1>ht://Dig error</h1>
<p>htsearch detected an error.  Please report this to the
webmaster of this site by sending an e-mail to:
<a href="mailto:unconfigured at htdig.searchengine.maintainer
">unconfigured at htdig.searchengine.maintainer</a>
The error message is:</p>
<pre>
Unable to read word database file
'/usr/local/share/htdig/database/db.words.db'
Did you run htdig?
</pre>
</body></html>

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