Morris Jones wrote:

I recently discovered that all of my moderated posts have been failing, most likely because my mailman version was older than my python version.

This is the error:

Sep 29 20:52:12 2010 (5588) Uncaught runner exception: unbound method reason_notice() must be called with ModeratedMemberPost instance as first argument (got nothing instead) Sep 29 20:52:12 2010 (5588) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop filebase) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 169, in _onefile 'Dequeuing message destined for missing list: %s', File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Moderate.py", line 67, in process msgdata['sender'] = sender

Something is really wrong with this traceback. The above line actually is line 67 in Mailman/Handlers/Moderate.py in all Mailman versions since 2.1.9, but the actual lines that were executed here must have been

            Hold.hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata,
                                   ModeratedMemberPost)

which are the lines following

            msgdata['sender'] = sender

File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 212, in hold_for_approval if usersubject:

Similarly here. The line that threw the exception must have been

reason = Utils.wrap(exc.reason_notice())

which comes 10 lines later.

TypeError: unbound method reason_notice() must be called with ModeratedMemberPost instance as first argument (got nothing instead)

Sep 29 20:52:12 2010 (5588) SHUNTING: 1285818731.142787+9ceab13e8549d5e6690de9b9880bef9c7c238b8d

My python version is 2.6.2, and I've been very careful to be sure that older pythons are not in the PATH.

The first thing I did was update mailman to 2.1.14, which seemed to go just fine, but I still see this error. The timestamps of all the executables are current, and were overwritten by the new versions. The "version' command reports 2.1.14.

Actually ...

I see now that the actual line of code changed after installing the new version of mailman. Where it used to be:

reason = Utils.wrap(exc.reason_notice())

it's now ...

if usersubject:

So it would appear that I need to get python to recompile all the pyc files, is that correct? How do I do that? I tried touching the .py files to make them newer ...

No. It appears that you didn't stop Mailman before installing 2.1.14 and then start it after. Try restarting Mailman now and see if that helps

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