[Moin-user] Installation problem, what do these errors mean?

[cl at isbd.net]

I am a new moinmoin user (to be) and am trying to get MoinMoin version
1.5.4 installed on my Slackware system.  I'm running apache 2.05 and
python 2.4 and I'm using the straightforward CGI installation.

After a few hiccoughs (mainly because I was changing the old httpd.conf
file in /etc/apache instead of the current one in /etc/apache2!) I
have got it installed and mostly running but "action=test" page
produces the following errors towards the end:-

    wikixml.marshal: create new marshal ... ok
    wikixml.marshal: setting marshal property ... ok

    ======================================================================
    ERROR: testSyntaxReference
    (MoinMoin._tests.test_formatter.FormatterTestCase)
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File
    "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/_tests/test_formatter.py",
    line 31, in testSyntaxReference
        self.formatPage("SyntaxReference", formatter)
      File
    "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/_tests/test_formatter.py",
    line 45, in formatPage
        return self.request.redirectedOutput(page.send_page, self.request)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/request.py", line
    703, in redirectedOutput
        function(*args, **kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py", line 1236,
    in send_page
        start_line=pi_lines)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py", line 1315,
    in send_page_content
        self.format(parser)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py", line 1332,
    in format
        parser.format(self.formatter)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/parser/wiki.py",
    line 1067, in format
        self.request.write(self._indent_to(indlen, indtype, numtype,
    numstart))
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/parser/wiki.py",
    line 553, in _indent_to
        close.append(self.formatter.paragraph(0))
      File
    "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/formatter/dom_xml.py", line
    299, in paragraph
        return self._set_tag('p', on)
      File
    "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/formatter/dom_xml.py", line
    159, in _set_tag
        raise ValueError, "closing of <%s> expected, but <%s> closed" %
    (last_tag, tag)
    ValueError: closing of <li> expected, but <p> closed

    ======================================================================
    ERROR: testBasicPackageThings
    (MoinMoin._tests.test_packages.UnsafePackageTestcase)
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File
    "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/_tests/test_packages.py",
    line 54, in setUp
        raise TestSkipped('This test needs to be run using the test
    wiki.')
    TestSkipped: This test needs to be run using the test wiki.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Ran 96 tests in 6.296s

    FAILED (errors=2)


A Google search suggested that this error might because of the version
of Python I had (which was 2.3.2) but I have upgraded to Python 2.4
and (after re-running install.py) I am getting exactly the same error.

Can anyone suggest what's wrong please?

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)