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

[Mark Sapiro]

Dennis Putnam wrote:
>
>Of course I did not expect this to be easy. After restoring the Mailman
>directory as suggested, mailman will not start:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/sbin/mailmanctl", line 106, in <module>
>    from Mailman import mm_cfg
>ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc


It appears your system Python is now different from the one that
compiled all the .pyc files. Just do


  rm -r /path/to/Mailman/*.pyc

This will remove all the compiled Python modules and they will be
recompiled as needed.

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