[Mailman-Users] Urgent Help! Need to repair my list

[Nathaniel Rahav]

Greetings Mailman Users. I did something supremely dumb last night in a 
late night attempt to be efficient and inadvertently corrupted one of my 
lists.
I had 150 moderator requests on a particular list (all spam) and due to 
some strange unicode characters in one or two of the messages, I was 
receiving an error when trying to "delete all moderator requests marked 
defer".
So i went into the mailman directory on the server and did the following:
cd mailman/data
rm -f heldmsg-news*.pck

where 'news' is the name of my list.

Now when I go to the pending moderator requests page I get the following 
error... can somebody please help me repair my list ? thanks :


    Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5


      We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy 
of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
happened. Thanks!


        Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 233, in main
    num += show_helds_overview(mlist, form)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 483, in show_helds_overview
    mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 159, in HandleRequest
    forward, addr)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 345, in __handlepost
    syslog('vette', note)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 40, in write
    self.write_ex(kind, msg, args, kws)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 58, in write_ex
    logf.write(msg + '\n')
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 73, in write
    Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg))
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 91, in write
    f.write(msg)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x92' in position 157: ordinal not in range(128)




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        Python information:

Variable 	Value
sys.version 	2.3.3 (#1, May 7 2004, 10:31:40) [GCC 3.3.3 20040412 (Red 
Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)]
sys.executable 	/usr/bin/python
sys.prefix 	/usr
sys.exec_prefix 	/usr
sys.path 	/usr
sys.platform 	linux2

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        Environment variables:

Variable 	Value
HTTP_COOKIE 
news+admin=280200000069cf463946732800000031616333636266363339393035316438313136333962343865626231346431306339616166633331 

SERVER_SOFTWARE 	Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10
SCRIPT_NAME 	/mailman/admindb
SERVER_SIGNATURE 	
Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 Server at www.busquelo.org Port 80

REQUEST_METHOD 	GET
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 	300
SERVER_PROTOCOL 	HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING 	
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_USER_AGENT 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 
rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
HTTP_CONNECTION 	keep-alive
HTTP_REFERER 	http://www.busquelo.org/mailman/admin/news/members/add
SERVER_NAME 	www.busquelo.org
REMOTE_ADDR 	96.224.0.108
PATH_TRANSLATED 	/home/httpd/busquelo.org/news
SERVER_PORT 	80
SERVER_ADDR 	209.166.211.42
DOCUMENT_ROOT 	/home/httpd/busquelo.org
PYTHONPATH 	/usr/local/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME 	/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb
SERVER_ADMIN 	s3ma4 at yahoo.com
HTTP_HOST 	www.busquelo.org
REQUEST_URI 	/mailman/admindb/news
HTTP_ACCEPT 
application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 

GATEWAY_INTERFACE 	CGI/1.1
REMOTE_PORT 	50871
REMOTE_HOST 	pool-96-224-0-108.nycmny.east.verizon.net
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 	gzip,deflate
PATH_INFO 	/news


-- 
Nathaniel Rahav
Busquelo Productions LLC
205 W 15th St, NYC 10011
Tel: 917 299 0115
Fax: 212 645 5687
nat at busquelo.org

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