Thanks everyone. I am pretty sure no newer version was ever installed from source and it remains a mystery what went wrong. Asked on askubuntu.com and got this recommendation which did resolve the issue:
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/ rm mailman* apt-get clean all On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/25/2015 04:28 PM, billy noah wrote: > > Tried running an update today and received this message: > > > > Setting up mailman (1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1) ... > ... > > Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0 > > > I'm with Steve on this. This is very wierd. The first message says you > are setting up 2.1.16-2 and the later message says you are downgrading > from 2.1.12-1 to 2.1.10. > > > > Any ideas what I can do to remedy this? > > > You can run Mailman's 'bin/update --force' manually, but I wouldn't > recommend it, because something unknown is messed up. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/billynoah%40zuma-design.com > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
