[Mailman-Users] Can't admin pending messages -- me too

[James Devenish]

Hi,

Last month there was a thread about a problem that I am now having.
Was a solution, or at least a cause, found?

The problem, as stated by the original poster, is "It shows the pending
messages with the choices - but if I select to approve, reject, or
discard - nothing happens after I click submit. The same messages
are still there and still pending."

To clarify, this occurs in all parts of the admindb interface that
are normally used. No approve/reject/discard/etc options have any
effect. I just end up at the admindb page as though it was a
daydream that I had used the buttons. There are no messages in
any logs, there is no explanation or acknowledgment in the web
interface.

I have tried most regular things like stopping and starting daemons,
clearing out temp junk (not that there was any), etc. Of course, there
are posts pending. But, to complicate matters, the affected machine was
physically relocated on the weekend and had its hard drives moved into a
new chassis (with a new motherboard, etc) due to a long-standing
hardware fault that we wanted to eliminate. And various other software
was upgraded. On top of that, it has new IP addresses and its domain has
changed. BUT this has not cause weird bugs in other software and most of
changes were made in stages with no observed malfunctions along the way.
All I can think is that the last time Mailman admindb was known to work
was late last week, before these changes, and now it doesn't work. The
version was 2.1b3 but in the face of this new problem, I upgraded to 2.1
proper. The upgrade seems to have made no observable difference
(improvement) in behaviour. Anyway, it sounds like the same problem
that someone else had, even if my circumstances obscure this. OS is
Solaris on UltraSPARC with Python 2.2.1. I will cheerfully upgrade
this to Python 2.2.2 along with Python-dependent packages, in the
near future.

But, as for Mailman...