[Mailman-Users] Problems (still) MM-1.0b11 & Python 1.5.2b2 on BSD3.1

[Tor Houghton]

This is probably what I experienced when I installed it on OpenBSD 2.3.
There seems to be a buglet (or something) in the flock() call with Python.

My fix for OpenBSD was posted, and should be in the archives.

Tor.

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, George M. Ellenburg (Mailing List Account) wrote:

> Fetched Python 1.5.2b2 from Python.org, install and tests went without a hitch.
> 
> Sucked down MM 1.0b11 this morning as well.
> 
> As user 'mailman' I ran `./configure --prefix=/u1/mailman
> --with-mail-gid=32766 --with-cgi-gid=32766` (32766 is user nogroup)
> followed next by `make install`.  No problems here.
> 
> In fact, I'm able to access the admin cgis.
> 
> But, as before, if I try to rin /bin/newlist I get the following error:
> sundial:~/bin $ ./newlist
> Enter the name of the list: test
> Enter the email of the person running the list: gme at caffeine.sundial.net
> Initial test password: XxXxXxXx
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./newlist", line 141, in ?
>     raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
>   File "./newlist", line 91, in main
>     newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw)
>   File "/u1/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 718, in Create
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/u1/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1267, in Lock
>     self._lock_file.lock('w|', 1)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 190, in lock
>     flock = fcntl.fcntl(self._file_.fileno(), cmd, flock)
> IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> sundial:~/bin $
> 
> Anyone have any clues or ideas?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
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