2 "Uncaught runner exception" [was: Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM 2.1a2: bug if dont_respond_to_post_requests=N -> lang is undefined]

[Luca Maranzano]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:45:04AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
>     LM> Now my question is: can I simply issue a "configure && make
>     LM> install" in the CVS tree or there are some other action that I
>     LM> must consider? :)
> 
> Depends on whether you're upgrading an existing site or testing it out
> in a separate installation (which I recommend for now).  If the
> latter, then yup that should do it.  If you're upgrading over an
> existing site, then read the instructions in the UPGRADING manual.
> Part of "testing it out" is also testing that upgrading is as painless
> (or as documented <wink>) as possible.

I've upgraded from 2.0.5 to 2.1a2 since I read on the Web site that
this was the (literally from http://www.list.org/MM21/index.html)
"current stable GNU release". Only after the upgrade I digged into
the list archives of mailman and I discovered that version 2.1 is
still in alpha stage :-/ Ok, no matter, I like to live on the
bleeding edge :) (I hope my users of the lists like too ;-) so
I've decided to go on with CVS and to help as far as I can in this 
testing phase.

I'm running a site with about 10 lists, all low traffic except one
with ~500 subscribers and a traffic of some messages a day.

This morning I came back from one week on holyday and since the bug
about dont_respond_to_post_requests has created some troubles, I've
updated to 2.1a3 of the latest CVS tree (updated just this morning).

BTW, the upgrade seemed painless :).

But I've to report this traceback from logs/error, that showed up some time
after I restarted mailmanctl:

[This happened 1 time only]
Sep 08 11:14:09 2001 (17075) Uncaught runner exception: EOF read where object expected
Sep 08 11:14:09 2001 (17075) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 104, in __oneloop
    self.__onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 152, in __onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 111, in _dispose
    status = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 134, in _dopipeline
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 159, in process
    hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NonMemberPost)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 234, in hold_for_approval
    id = mlist.HoldMessage(msg, reason, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 176, in HoldMessage
    self.__opendb()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 77, in __opendb
    self.__db = marshal.load(fp)
EOFError: EOF read where object expected

While this is repeated several times (~10):

Sep 08 13:09:59 2001 (17080) Uncaught runner exception: 'None' object has no attribute 'startswith'
Sep 08 13:09:59 2001 (17080) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 104, in __oneloop
    self.__onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 152, in __onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 99, in _dispose
    if mlist.bounce_processing and \
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py", line 63, in ScanMessages
    addrs = sys.modules[modname].process(msg)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/SMTP32.py", line 48, in process
    if not mailer.startswith('<SMTP32 v'):
AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'startswith'

>From the logs I can say that mailmanctl has prcessed some pending
requests, but I don't know how to trace down the problem. Let me know
if you need other info.

My be sooner or later I'll be able also to submit some patch ;-) for
the moment I can only report problems as soon as they happen.

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Luca