[Mailman-Users] mailman error when subscribing from web page

[Chad Rebuck]

The output does look very similar but I wouldn't have any idea how the
config.pck copied over.  Perhaps something in the mailman package (
http://archlinuxarm.org/packages) I installed copied files incorrectly and
caused this trouble.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 09/04/2013 06:10 AM, Chad Rebuck wrote:
> > The
> > pending file has quite a lot of output.  I'll send the output after I
> > clean the email addresses and passwords.
>
>
> That may not be necessary.
>
>
> > The list_pending script shows:
> >
> > [root at pogo bin]# python2 list_pending -v a2-16v-list
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "list_pending", line 173, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "list_pending", line 147, in main
> >     evictions = pending['evictions']
> > KeyError: 'evictions'
> > [root at pogo bin]#
> >
> > I moved lists/a2-16v-list/pending.pck to another folder and I was
> > immediately able to subscribe via the web.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
>
>
> I don't think the pending.pck file in an actual pending database at all.
>
> Try running
>
> bin/dumpdb lists/a2-16v-list/config.pck
>
> and see if the output is similar to what you got for the pending.pck. If
> so, some how a config.pck got copied to or saved as pending.pck.
>
> In any case, I probably won't be able to tell how the corruption
> occurred, but I don't think it's due to a Mailman bug.
>
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