[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Uncaught runner exception

[Lothar Schilling]

 Am 12.03.2019 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Sapiro:

> On 3/12/19 2:37 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote:
>> An example of a complete error message:
>>
>> Mar 11 17:02:22 2019 (15400) SHUNTING:
>> 1552320069.504329+15fb4f71a5404fd1af3dafbe2780486d5b474cc7
>> Mar 11 17:22:37 2019 (15400) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec
>> can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)
>> Mar 11 17:22:37 2019 (15400) Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 119, in _oneloop
>>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 190, in _onefile
>>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 77, in _dispose
>>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in
>> ArchiveMail
>>     h.processUnixMailbox(f)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 602, in
>> processUnixMailbox
>>     self.add_article(a)
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 646, in
>> add_article
>>     author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
>>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 63, in
>> fixAuthor
>>     while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26:
>> ordinal not in range(128)
> Again, this is the code trying to "Canonicalize a name into Last, First
> format". The complete statement is
>
>         while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
>                        L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts):
>             i = i - 1
>
> smallNameParts is all lower case ascii, i.e.
>
> = ['van', 'von', 'der', 'de']
>
> and L is the list returned by
>
>     L = author.split()
>
> and none of the shunted .pck files you provided me have any name pieces
> longer than 14 bytes and only 2 of the 5 even have any non-ascii, but
> the decode error refers to byte 0xb5 in position 26 (B5 in iso-8859-1 is µ).
>
> I know you said in your original post
>
>> I am using Python 2.6.6 on a Centos 6 system. The output of
>> /usr/lib64/python >>> import string >>> string.lowercase is
>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' (as it is supposed to be).
> but see below.
>
>> The problem is site-wide, not just for one or two lists. Anyway, there
>> are no altered templates or messages for a specific list. The only files
>> deviating from the default configuration are:
>> Defaults.py
>> mm_cfg.py
>>
>> Of course Defaults.py has
>> DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en'.
>>
>> So in mm_cfg.py I added
>> DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'de'
>> add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'iso-8859-1', 'ltr')
>>
>> But I cannot see how this would cause the problem.
> Neither can I, but I tried again with those settings just to be sure,
> and got no issues.
>
> All of this leads me to conclude that the issue must be non-ascii
> following the 'z' in string.lowercase.
>
> What is the path to the Python interpreter that Mailman is using?

/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python -V: Python 2.6.6

> What do you get if in that Python you do
>
> import string
> lowercase
> string
>
> For example, I get
>
>>>> import string
>>>> lowercase
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>>>> string
> <module 'string' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/string.pyc'>
>

import string

lowercase
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'lowercase' is not defined

string
<module 'string' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/string.pyc'>