[ mailman-Bugs-1109325 ] Bug with upgrading to Mailman 2.1.4 in SuSE 9.1

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Bugs item #1109325, was opened at 2005-01-25 13:44
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Category: Web/CGI
Group: 2.0.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Smith (jallen13)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Bug with upgrading to Mailman 2.1.4 in SuSE 9.1

Initial Comment:
[NOTE:  This is a "I did it!" story.. the fix is at the
bottom of this post :) )

Just wanted to make a report here about some problems I
had upgrading
Mailman from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 using Yast Online Update
(YOU) in Suse 9.1
AMD64.

It broke my web-based GUI, and spit this error into my
apache error logs:

[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]
[----- Mailman
Version: 2.1.4 -----]
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR
[----- Traceback ------]
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]
Traceback (most
recent call last):
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 241, in ?
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]    
run_main()
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 69, in run_main
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]    
import xml.sax.saxutils
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]
ImportError: No
module named xml.sax.saxutils
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:57 2005] [error] [client IPADDR]
[Mailman: low level
unrecoverable exception]

And the output of the Web browser going to the mailman
location gives
this error:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem,
please email a copy
of this page to the webmaster for this site with a
description of what
happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Content-type: text/html

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could
not even generate a
useful traceback for you.  Please report this to the
Mailman administrator at
this site.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

So, I googled around, and found that this error is 
very common in
2.1.4 version.  Just google for "Mailman Low level
failure" and you'll
get a lot of web pages like the one I just pasted, all
for 2.1.4.

I  got some help from Don Burns from mailman-users
list, he told me all I need
to do is install python-xml.  (Thanks Don!!)

So, I used the trusty YAST and searched for python-xml
and installed it.

Wham-Bam, it works.

I guess 2.1.4 version expects python-xml as a depends,
whereas the
earlier versions didn't care about that.

I wanted to document this so maybe it''ll come up
quicker for some
poor sucker like myself googling around for this answer :)

Cheers,

Tim Smith

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