[Mailman-Developers] Fail to create a list with MM3 ALPHA

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

I am having problems creating a mailing list with MM3 ALPHA.

Here's what I have done so far:

I created a config that overrides src/mailman/config/schema.cfg.

Then I started mailmanctl:

# /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg start
Warning!  You may encounter permission problems.
Starting Mailman's master qrunner.

mailmanctl is created the necessacry directory structure in /var/lib/mailman/:

# ls -1 /var/lib/mailman/
archives
bin
data
etc
ext
lists
locks
logs
messages
qfiles
spam


It seems to run well:

# ps axf | grep mailman
16215 pts/0    S+     0:00                  \_ grep mailman
16164 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/master -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16167 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=retry:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16168 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=out:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16169 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=bounces:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16170 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=command:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16171 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=pipeline:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16172 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=lmtp:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16173 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=in:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16174 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=virgin:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16175 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=news:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg
16176 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=archive:0:1 -s -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg


Then I try to create a list:

# /var/lib/mailman/bin/create_list -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg mailman at mailman.state-of-mind.de
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/create_list", line 18, in <module>
    mailman.bin.create_list.main()
  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/bin/create_list.py", line 93, in main
    options = ScriptOptions()
  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/options.py", line 80, in __init__
    self.add_options()
  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/bin/create_list.py", line 47, in add_options
    super(ScriptOptions, self).add_options()
  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/options.py", line 131, in add_options
    type='unicode', help=_('The mailing list name'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1004, in add_option
    raise TypeError, "invalid arguments"
TypeError: invalid arguments


What should I do?

Thanks,

p at rick


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