Thank you!!

How did you track this problem?

I've found and removed the offending lines in my cookie file and can finally admin lists again. :)

This would seem to indicate a bug in mailman's handling of cookies though?!

In my case the offending cookies were for the domain ".com.au" My mailman server being at "lists.ocean.com.au".

I've attached the culprits if anyone can figure out why they crash the admin interface and fix it in a new version so it no longer occurs that would be great! Hopefully they don't contain anything important. :)

Regards

Jon

gaydos@raleigh.ibm.com wrote:

Greetings. Recently a number of folks have complained that the admin web interface hangs for one of their mailing lists, while the other admin interfaces for their other lists work fine. We just had a similar incident. In our case the culprit turned out to be the netscape cookie file on the machine the list admin was using. We renamed the cookie file and cleared the stale mailman locks and he could reliably use the admin interface. As soon as we put the original cookie file back the hangs came back. The user is reluctant to send his cookie file to me for testing so I don't think I'll get any closer to the real culprit. I'm hoping that someone else having this issue might be able to fix their problem similarly, and possibly find the secret of the bad cookie.

Thanks, Gary

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Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

-- Jonathan Benson Systems Administrator Ocean Internet http://www.ocean.com.au/

.com.au TRUE / FALSE 2051222536 SITESERVER ID=9a6624040852a1e3dd070f6bdf6a48b1 .com.au TRUE / FALSE 1293839966 RMID cb0cea07386abbb0 .com.au TRUE / FALSE 1268707608 CyberTargetAnonymous NMN00081A3848C008D07E6783EDCAA5930E

Thank you!!

How did you track this problem?

I've found and removed the offending lines in my cookie file and can finally admin lists again. :)

This would seem to indicate a bug in mailman's handling of cookies though?!

In my case the offending cookies were for the domain ".com.au" My mailman server being at "lists.ocean.com.au".

I've attached the culprits if anyone can figure out why they crash the admin interface and fix it in a new version so it no longer occurs that would be great! Hopefully they don't contain anything important. :)

Regards

Jon

gaydos@raleigh.ibm.com wrote:

Greetings. Recently a number of folks have complained that the admin web interface hangs for one of their mailing lists, while the other admin interfaces for their other lists work fine. We just had a similar incident. In our case the culprit turned out to be the netscape cookie file on the machine the list admin was using. We renamed the cookie file and cleared the stale mailman locks and he could reliably use the admin interface. As soon as we put the original cookie file back the hangs came back. The user is reluctant to send his cookie file to me for testing so I don't think I'll get any closer to the real culprit. I'm hoping that someone else having this issue might be able to fix their problem similarly, and possibly find the secret of the bad cookie.

Thanks, Gary

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Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

-- Jonathan Benson Systems Administrator Ocean Internet http://www.ocean.com.au/

.com.au TRUE / FALSE 2051222536 SITESERVER ID=9a6624040852a1e3dd070f6bdf6a48b1 .com.au TRUE / FALSE 1293839966 RMID cb0cea07386abbb0 .com.au TRUE / FALSE 1268707608 CyberTargetAnonymous NMN00081A3848C008D07E6783EDCAA5930E