[Mailman-Users] Strange error with Mailman 2.1.9

[Mark Sapiro]

Richard Hartmann wrote:
>
>> You should
>> dump the file with "bin/dumpdb -p" to make sure it contains both a
>> message and a metadata object before renaming it.
>
># /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb -p
>/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt/1227775710.928695+a44f4a2c5af5927c529c6c4a5589ab71759a1f86.pck.tmp
>[----- start pickle file -----]
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb", line 159, in <module>
>    msg = main()
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb", line 139, in main
>    obj = load(fp)
>ValueError: insecure string pickle


It looks like the files are corrupt. You may be able to see something
of the contents with 'strings', but Mailman won't be able to process
them as they are.

If strings allows you to actually recover a message from the file, you
can re-post that message with bin/inject.

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