Hello,

We recently upgrade from Debian 5 to 6, and are now having issues with Mailman. Messages are still flowing properly, but the web archives are not being generated since the upgrade.

When I run 'bin/arch mylistname' I get the following:

[...] figuring article archives 2005-October /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py:176: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal self.dict = marshal.load(fp) /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py:74: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal self.sorted.sort() Updating index files for archive [2004-December] [...] Updating HTML for article 214 Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/archives/private/mylistname/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 201, in <module> main() File "bin/arch", line 189, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 586, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 638, in add_article article.parentID = parentID = self.get_parent_info(arch, article) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 658, in get_parent_info if self.database.hasArticle(archive, article.in_reply_to): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 279, in hasArticle self.__openIndices(archive) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 257, in __openIndices t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i)) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 66, in __init__ self.load() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 185, in load self.__sort(dirty=1) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 74, in __sort self.sorted.sort() UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

We're running 2.1.13, but as you can see, the problem persists even with the latest release. We're using the stock Debian Python (2.6.6), but Mailman for tarballs.

Thanks for any info.

Regards, David