John Fleming wrote: > >BINGO! The results listed several lists without error, and then there was >the attribute error for real_name. The preceeding list was the mailman >list! So with appropriate backups, I renamed the mailman list's >config.pck.last file to config.pck and ran mylist_lists again, and it ran >without error, listing all of my lists! And guess what, the list overview >web page works as expected now!
That's great! I'm glad it's now working again. >Do you agree that there was something VERY subtle about what was wrong with >it? Here's a snippet from the original config.pck: > > 'preferred_language': 'en', > 'private_roster': 1, > 'real_name': 'Mailman', > 'reject_these_nonmembers': [], > 'reply_goes_to_list': 0, > >The real_name -looks- OK to a text editor, no? Yes, it looks fine. >Here's how it looks now: > > 'preferred_language': 'en', > 'private_roster': 1, > 'real_name': 'Mailman', > 'reject_these_nonmembers': [], > 'reply_goes_to_list': 0, And yes, this looks the same. One thing I thought of - are both of these excerpts from something identified by bin/dumpdb as 'object 1' in the file. i.e. directly below the lines [----- start pickle file -----] <----- start object 1 -----> with no intervening <----- start object 2 -----> >Running diff adds to the confusion, and it's getting difficult to explain. > >If I diff the present (working) config.pck (the renamed config.pck.last >file) and config-orig.pck (the problem file), there is NO DIFFERENCE. Very strange indeed. Of course, every time Mailman saves a list, it goes through a complex dance, the result of which is rotating the existing config.pck to config.pck.last and saving the new config.pck, but with more safety than just doing that directly. >However, if I diff config-orig.pck (problem file) and config.pck.last.orig >(the original pck.last file), there IS a difference!! Have the timestamps changed? maybe Mailman Saved the list in the mean time. However, that would not explain why diff says that config-orig.pck, and the current config.pck are the same, yet one works and the other didn't. That is the real mystery, and I have no answer for that. >So it seems that >simply renaming the "same" (according to diff) file fixed the problem?! >Some very subtle binary difference not detectable in the text output from >dumpdb?? Still, diff 'should' detect a difference. Are the files the same length? What does cmp config.pck config-orig.pck say? -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
