Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

2004-06-08 Thread Alex Dupont
Hi, then how about 'strings' ? Email-Addresses. A lot of them, although I can't see how many. But I fear something is not right as it (partly) looks as follows: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] kJVe0ZnAr [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] U Jane Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janis Doe l ElikararU

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Dupont
Hello, Have you also tried bin/update --force ? I have now... It produced quite a bit of output, such as e.g.: Updating mailing list: LISTNAME Updating the held requests database. // every list - updating old private mbox file - updating old public mbox file Fixing language templates:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Dupont
Hi, sorry for this rather long email, but I made some observations, see below. I guess there is config.pck.last and mailman fallbacks to it knowing the backup config.pck is corrupted. Anticipating that, I had deleted the .last-file, even replaced them with the backup-file. No difference.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

2004-06-06 Thread Alex Dupont
Hello Tokio, [sorry, this got only mailed to you personally; again to the list; strange list setting btw...] Have you done 'bin/update' after moving the backup config.pck file into the newly installed list directory ? No updates are necessary. The more I think about it I get the feeling that

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade to 2.1.4 failed - user lost - recover via backup unsuccessful - any ideas?

2004-06-05 Thread Alex Dupont
Hello, I'm a bit in a loss here: I was running Mailman 2.1.2 on Debian 3.0 with no problems. Using apt-get... to upgrade Mailman to 2.1.4 produced an error. Well, besides the fact that all my archives got deleted (why would a script (!) do that??), I finally got Mailman back up and running