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

[Jon Carnes]

It sounds like a python problem.  Try installing python from source on
your server and see if that clears up the problem.

Note: this is the second complaint this week about accessing Python on
Mandrake 9.1 system.

Jon Carnes

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:
> ...
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> ImportError: No module named getopt
>    File "/home/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> ImportError: No module named getopt
>    File "/home/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> ImportError: No module named getopt
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --chris
> 
> 
> 
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