At Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:34:51 -0700 Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:
On 04/30/2014 11:30 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
What does this error message mean? "low level unrecoverable exception"
It means something really bad happened. One of the Mailman web CGIs threw an exception and the CGI driver script encountered another exception while trying to log a traceback and the environment info.
I just installed my own build of mailman 2.1.16 (built under CentOS 5 x84_64) as an upgrade over the stock 2.1.9 that comes with CentOS 5 and I am getting this error. What should I be looking for?
Did you restart Mailman or stop before, start after?
I believe the install scripts in the RPM stop and restart Mailman. But I will do an explicit shutdown of Mailman before the upgrade when I try it again.
Did you totally remove the Centos package or try to 'upgrade' it. The latter is not at all straightforward. See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB.
That page relates to upgrading from 2.1.5-20 or earlier. I was upgrading from 2.1.9, so that does not apply (?). When I did an upgrade to 2.1.16 from an 'bare' install of 2.1.9 on my home system, there weren't any (major) problems. And a fresh install of 2.1.16 (on another machine) had no problems either.
Ok, I did an explict stop of mailman, removed the old rpm (rpm -e) and then a fresh install of the new version, started mailman, and after some minor config tweaks, it seems to be working.
There was an issue a while back, see https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-November/047814.html, but this was due to a SuSE patch that referenced a Python xml library that wasn't installed. The specifics aren't relevant to your issue, but it could indicate there's something missing in your python. Have you installed the python-dev package?
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