[Mailman-Users] Help - Mailman programs all do "Memory Fault' on Linux, here's what I tried to fix it

[Don Steiny]

Hi,

    I am  on Debian 2.6.8.  I used apt-get to update Python to 2-4 and
the latest version of mailman.  I used one archive in sources.list;

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

    When I attempt to start it I get this message:

#
# /etc/init.d/mailman start
* Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing.
* Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start.

    Searching around the web I found I needed to create a list mailman
(though I have not figured out why it was not seeing my existing lists,
that is for later) I got this;
# newlist mailman
Memory fault

I thought the problem might be with the debian mailmail I went to
sourceforge and downloaded and installed 2.1.11 and nothing changed. I
though the problem might be with Python, I downlaoded and installed
Python 2.6 and there were changes in that when I tried to install
mailman I got this:
Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ...
Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
bin/update:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use
hashlib instead
  import md5
/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the sha module
is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/update", line 51, in <module>
    from Mailman import MailList
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module>
    from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from Archiver import *
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in <module>
    from Mailman import Mailbox
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module>
    import mailbox
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module>
    import email.message
ImportError: No module named message
make: *** [update] Error 1

I copied over the 2.4 mailbox.py file to 2.6 and then I could compile
everything with the sha and md5 warnings, which are supposedly no big
deal, and I got one tiny change:

/usr/sbin/newlist:96: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated;
use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
Memory fault

What should I do next?  Help!

-Don