[Mailman-Users] Error message on upgrade

[Mark Sapiro]

dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>
>Can I just copy cron/crontab.in from the dist?


It depends where you put it. crontab.in in a user crontab so it needs
to go in /var/spool/cron/mailman. If that's where the existing crontab
is, that should be fine. If the existing crontab is somewhere like
/etc/cron.d/mailman, the easiest thing is to remove that one and
install crontab.in in /var/spool/cron/mailman. If you want to put it
in /etc/cron.d/mailman, you need to add the user name (mailman) in
between the times and the command on all command lines.

>Also, I start  
>mailmanctl and it starts:
>
>20919 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 ./mailmanctl start
>20942 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s
>20943 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s
>20944 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s
>20945 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s
>20946 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s
>20948 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s
>20951 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s
>20952 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python2.4 /var/mailman/bin/qrunner  
>--runner=RetryRunner:0:1 -s


Which is exactly correct.


>Then I start getting these errors from the mailman:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 89, in ?
>     from Mailman.Handlers import HandlerAPI
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 26, in ?
>     from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO
>ImportError: No module named pythonlib.StringIO


And this error doesn't come from Mailman 2.1.12 at all. It comes from
the 2.0.x /var/mailman/cron/qrunner which is still being run by cron,
and which no longer works because of other changes.

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