[Mailman-Users] [Fwd: problem migrating mailman 2.0.8 to 2.1.7]

[Mark Sapiro]

Apostolis Papayanakis wrote:
>
>I have trouble upgrading an old installation of mailman-2.0.8 into mailman-2.1.7 (Gentoo Linux with Python 2.4.2).
>While installing the new version on top of the old, the "update" utility is invoked, but then it fails with
>"AttributeError: topics". No list gets migrated. The same error is produced if I use "withlist" with any old list.


Something has gone wrong in the original update process. Apparently at
this point, you have 'current version lists' without a topics
attribute. This should not happen.


>Recreating the lists seems to loose too much user configuration, although it is fairly easy to accomplish.
>The system currently serves approx 60 mailing lists.
>
>I found relevant discussions on this list, but not any really helpful answers (yet)
>How can I overcome the "AttributeError: topics" error? Is it trivial?


Try the following:

Go to the lists/listname/ directory for one of your old lists. Then
delete all the config.* files except for the original 2.0.8 config.db.
Then try 'bin/withlist -l listname' on that list.

If that works, that list should then be OK.

You may be able to accomplish the same for all lists by doing the same
file deletion and then running bin/update or 'bin/update -f'.

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