[Mailman-Users] Low level bug: (solved)

[Forrest Aldrich]

Thanks to everyone that responded privately via email.   

The problem was an obscure typo in mm_cfg.py.   Missing single quotes, 
basically.  It's "obscure" because it wasn't very obvious... and I 
looked over everything with a fine-toothed comb, including our proxy and 
httpd setup!

It seems to me that Mailman could probably provide better debugging 
output in this scenario.   I don't know Python, but at the point where 
the mm_cfg.py file is parsed, any syntactical errors could be reported 
then.   ?

Has anyone been bitten by this before?


_F



Forrest Aldrich wrote:

>[ reposting as my initial message didn't hit the list, before part 2]
>
>I hit a bug today:
>
> From our link:
>
> 
>http://www.mydomain.net/thelists/admin/testing/?VARHELP=gateway/news_prefix_subject_too
>
>Error message:
>
>
>          We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
>    Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even
>    generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the
>    Mailman administrator at this site.
>
>This is a proxied configuration, ie:
>
>www.ourdomain.net/lists <-> internal.host.ourdomain.net
>
>Most everything else is working properly; however, I wonder where to
>start looking at this - there was no useful information in the logs.
>This is an attempt to display a description of sorts, so I wonder if my
>configuration may have overlooked something (ie: altered paths).
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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