[Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

[Mark Sapiro]

On 4/28/2012 3:02 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 4:57 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> On 4/28/2012 1:24 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>>> As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time
>>> the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the
>>> working version (2010.2). However, I must have missed something because
>>> I am getting the following error when I try to access Mailman web:
>>>
>>> Apr 28 16:07:42 2012 admin(17726):
>>> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ pr 28 16:07:42 2012
>>> admin(17726): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>>> admin(17726): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.13 -----]
>>> admin(17726): [----- Traceback ------]
>>> admin(17726): Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> admin(17726):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 97, in run_main
>>> admin(17726):     pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(),
>>> [scriptname])
>>> admin(17726):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 35,
>>> in <module>
>>> admin(17726):     from Mailman import MailList
>>> admin(17726):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 64, in
>>> <module>
>>> admin(17726):     from Mailman import Gui
>>> admin(17726):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/__init__.py", line
>>> 25, in <module>
>>> admin(17726):     from Privacy import Privacy
>>> admin(17726):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/Privacy.py", line 28,
>>> in <module>
>>> admin(17726):     from Mailman import GPGUtils
>>
>> This import is not in standard GNU Mailman and neither is the
>> Mailman/GPGUtils.py module.
> I wonder if the update installed this so rather than restore something,
> maybe I need to delete something. But from where is this being called?


According to the above traceback, the import is in
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/Privacy.py at line 25.

If you have a backup of /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ you could try
restoring all of it.

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