>>>>> "Trey" == Trey Nolen >>>>> "[Mailman-Users] Mailman problem on Debian" >>>>> Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:50:52 -0600
Trey> I had to do an update on one of our unstable machines
Trey> today. It is (was) running Mailman. Now, when I run Mailman,
Trey> I get this:
Trey> --begin errors mail2:/etc/mailman# /etc/init.d/mailman start
Trey> Traceback (most recent call last):
Trey> File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 47, in ?
Trey> from Mailman import MailList
Trey> File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 49, in ?
Trey> from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver
Trey> File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line
Trey> 17, in ?
Trey> from Archiver import *
Trey> File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line
Trey> 31, in ?
Trey> from Mailman import Mailbox
Trey> File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 25, in ?
Trey> from email.Generator import Generator
Trey> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 16, in
Trey> ?
Trey> from email.Header import Header
Trey> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py", line 41, in ?
Trey> USASCII = Charset('us-ascii')
Trey> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Charset.py", line 220, in
Trey> __init__
Trey> input_charset = _ascii_lower()
Trey> TypeError: _ascii_lower() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
Trey> Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing Please
Trey> create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start
That looks the same as Debian Bug #226086
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226086
I believe Debian users are better served by looking first at Debian
Bugs and "bugging" the Debian package before going upstream. I am
under the impression that most Debian packagers prefer that and that
the Debian packagers will pass bugs upstream when appropriate.
In this case we have
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Received: (at 226086) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Jan 2004 17:15:52 +0000
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 04 11:15:50 2004
To: "John A. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#226086: mailman: dpkg-reconfigure mailman TypeError
From: Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:38:53 +0100
[snip bug report]
This is a bug in the newest python package; reassigning.
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