[Mailman-Developers] Empty module name

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Thu Feb 5 12:40:01 EST 2004


I'm running mailman-2.1.3 with postfix-2.0.16,1 on FreeBSD 4.9.  
Mailman was installed a few months ago.  A few days ago, mail stopped 
being delivered.  Viewing /var/log/maillog, I can see the mail is 
coming in, but never being delivered.

In mailman/log/errors, I see this.

Feb 02 16:19:01 2004 (33670) uncaught archiver exception at filepos: 
0
Feb 02 16:19:01 2004 (33670) Uncaught runner exception: Empty module 
name
Feb 02 16:19:01 2004 (33670) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in 
_oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in 
_onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in 
_dispose
    mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 208, 
in ArchiveMail
    h.processUnixMailbox(f)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, 
in processUnixMailbox
    m = mbox.next()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/mailbox.py", line 35, in next
    return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop))
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 89, in scrubber
    return mailbox.scrub(msg)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 109, in scrub
    return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 311, 
in process
    t = t.encode(charset, 'replace')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.py", line 84, in 
search_function
    globals(), locals(), _import_tail)
ValueError: Empty module name

>From the archives, I see this is not a new problem, and found a patch 
at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-
developers at python.org/msg06317.html.

I applied the patch and recompiled:

   cd /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers
   python -c "import py_compile as p; p.compile('Scrubber.py')"

I then ran unshunt and saw the errors continue.  FWIW, I also 
retstarted the qrunners and tried again.  Same symptoms.

This problem has been raised before and seem to becoming more common. 
 I found these recent references:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=871050&gr
oup_id=103
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg21490.html

Any suggestions please?
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/




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