Since the beginning of May I've had a problem with all messages going through
Mailman. They are being delivered to the lists properly but copies are staying
in qfiles/shunt
The errors appearing in the Mailman error.1 log file indicate
"
May 05 10:16:29 2019 (1167) Uncaught runner exception: 'utf8' codec can't
decode byte 0xaa in position 26: invalid start byte
May 05 10:16:29 2019 (1167) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 119, in _oneloop
self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 190, in _onefile
keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 77, in _dispose
mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 214, in ArchiveMail
h.processUnixMailbox(f)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 596, in
processUnixMailbox
self.add_article(a)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 640, in
add_article
author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 63, in fixAuthor
while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 26: invalid
start byte
May 05 10:16:29 2019 (1167) SHUNTING:
1557065787.914554+25c37ef6e662cc98d41ac9d45855fe04f151e11a
"
This is on Debian 9.6 with Python 2.7.13 and Mailman 2.1.23 , all installed
from the Debian package manager.
I've spent several hours hunting around for a potential solution. Then stumbled
upon this:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-March/084243.html
Before making the code edits suggested in that post I was performing a simple
test using the 'arch' command.
With the original code the arch command fails with every single list in my
system. The error it throws looks like this:
"
Updating HTML for article 66
Pickling archive state into
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/jtest/pipermail.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./arch", line 201, in <module>
main()
File "./arch", line 189, in main
archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 606, in
processUnixMailbox
self.add_article(a)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 650, in
add_article
author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 72, in fixAuthor
while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 26: invalid
start byte
"
With the modified code the arch command works perfectly with every single list
and no errors are generated in the log file.
I'm going to leave the hand-edited code in-place for the time being. If anyone
would like to work with me to diagnose this mystery problem I'd be happy to
assist however I can.
Thanks,
Jason Morrill
IT Director
Child and Family Agency
860-443-2896 x1422
http://www.childandfamilyagency.org/
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