[Mailman-Users] set up and install error - help

[Ken Firestone]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:

> 
> Well, you have two problems here.
> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get Mailman set up and I'm getting the following error:
> > 
> > [mailman at lorax mailman-2.0beta5]$ bin/check_perms
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "bin/check_perms", line 35, in ?
> >     import paths
> > ImportError: No module named paths

I am getting the same error. I had already run make install, and I am
running as the mailman user from /home/mailman, from a command line
console.


Ken


> 
> bin/check_perms is supposed to be run AFTER it is installed, from insite
> the mailman home to check if it has been installed successfuly.
> 
> > When I try and look at line 35, I get the following:
> > 
> > [mailman at lorax bin]$ xemacs check_perms &
> > [1] 14955
> > [mailman at lorax bin]$ Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > 
> > Initialization error: X server not responding
> > : ":0.0"
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> This is completely unrelated to mailman, but you probably "su"ed to root
> and then to mailman, keeping the DISPLAY variable set, and mailman is not
> authorized to connect to your X display, which is to be expected. You have
> the following options:
> 
> * as yourself, run the command "xhost +" to disable X authentication, or 
> 
> * as yourself, run "xauth list :0", and, as mailman, before running
> xemacs, type  "xauth add <the result of running 'xauth list :0' as
> yourself>" or
> 
> * type "export DISPLAY=" before running xemacs, so that xemacs runs in
> console mode and don't try to connect to X
> 
> Regards, Leo
> 
> 
> 
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