[Mailman-Users] Mm 2.1.1 dies after system upgrade: no mod getopt

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 9 20:32:20 CEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:10, Christopher Kolar wrote:
> Hello.  I have been happily running 2.1.1 and recently had to upgrade my OS 
> (to Mandrake 9.1 using python 2.2.2).    In addition to the expected 
> problems, Mailman stopped working.  I went through the configure/install 
> process without many problems.  When I try to start the mailman service I 
> get 10 pages of the following:

> ImportError: No module named getopt
> 
> I have seen some other posts to the list mentioning problems with python 
> installations.  I would appreciate it is anyone could shed light on this 
> problem.

I'm betting Mandrake shuffled their Python packages again.  Be sure you
install any -devel or other Python rpms in addition to the basic ones. 
Let us know which one you find getopt in so we can update the
documentation. :(

-Barry





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