[Mailman-Users] Mailman Bug?/no Admin level web access

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Tue May 17 00:15:25 CEST 2005


Elissa wrote:

>I'm hoping someone can help me fix this. I installed mailman, and 
>couldn't figure out why the web interface didn't work. It seems I CAN 
>access any of the pages, but the admin ones. I get a lovely message in 
>the browser:
>"Bug in Mailman version 2.1.6rc3
>
>We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
>Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of 
>traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, 
>but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. "
>
>My mailman log shows nothing, hasn't been updated since May 10th, but 
>Apache's log shows  useful information:
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Mailman 
>Version: 2.1.6rc3 -----]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Traceback 
>------]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Traceback (most 
>recent call last):
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
>"/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 82, in run_main
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     immediate=1)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
>"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in 
>__init__
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     
>Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
>"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 49, in __init__
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     self.__get_f()
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
>"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 67, in __get_f
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     1)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]   File 
>"/usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.py", line 566, in open
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     file = 
>__builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] IOError: [Errno 
>13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error'
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- Python 
>Information -----]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.version     =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 
>2005, 12:11:53)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [GCC 3.4.2 
>20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.executable  =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/python
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.prefix      =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.exec_prefix =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.path        =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sys.platform    =
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] linux2
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [----- 
>Environment Variables -----]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tSERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSCRIPT_NAME: 
>/mailman/admin.cgi
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tSERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server at 
>imcserver.gotdns.org Port 80</address>
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREQUEST_METHOD: 
>GET
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tSERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tQUERY_STRING:
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) 
>Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_NAME: 
>imcserver.gotdns.org
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREMOTE_ADDR: 
>127.0.0.1
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tPATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/html/mailman
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_PORT: 80
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_ADDR: 
>127.0.0.1
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tDOCUMENT_ROOT: 
>/var/www/html
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tPYTHONPATH: 
>/usr/local/mailman
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tSCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/www/html/cgi-bin/admin.cgi
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tSERVER_ADMIN: 
>root at imcserver.gotdns.org
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTTP_HOST: 
>imcserver.gotdns.org
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREQUEST_URI: 
>/mailman/admin.cgi/mailman
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTTP_ACCEPT: 
>text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tGATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tREMOTE_PORT: 
>58483
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 
>\tHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tPATH_INFO: 
>/mailman
>[Mon May 16 13:13:04 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
>
>Is there a simple way to fix the admin interface without breaking the 
>rest?  I'm using my aol address to make sure I get my mail.

I don't have an answer for you, but there is another user with the same
problem. See the thread at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044683.html

Maybe the two of you can figure something out.

--
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan




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