[spambayes-dev] Re: [Spambayes] spam error...

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Sep 25 11:08:58 EDT 2003


Maybe it's time for 1.0a7.  Many people seem to be running into this
particular problem.

    >> * If you execute
    >> 
    >> import whichdb, os
    >> from spambayes import Options
    >> dbfile = os.path.expanduser(Options.options["Storage",
    >> "persistent_storage_file"])
    >> print whichdb.whichdb(dbfile)

    nils> I'm new to python and had to fight with newlines first, but it
    nils> says 'None'

Hmmm...  That means it can't tell what the type of the database file is.
That's odd.

    nils> did I forgot to install something?

I don't think so.

    >> * The last time you power cycled your computer did you shut down
    >> sb_server cleanly (that is, select "Save and shutdown" from your web
    >> browser)? 

    nils> surely not, I can't! why? here:

    nils> 500 Server error
    nils> Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    nils>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/shelve.py", line 77, in __setitem__
    nils>     self.dict[key] = f.getvalue()

    nils> TypeError: object does not support item assignment

This is a bug I think Tony Meyer fixed in the past few days - since 1.0a6
was released.  If you can check out from CVS, I'd recommend it.  I took a
look but couldn't figure out what changes fixed what bugs.  Tony's in New
Zealand.  I don't expect him to be back at the computer for eight hours or
so unless he's a night owl.

    nils> beyond this, I still have my config problems, that sb_server.py
    nils> doesn't start the pop3 proxies automatically and that I have to
    nils> reconfigure them first...

I'm not sure what this problem would be, though it's quite possible that
since you have trouble saving your configuration, it never learns your
settings. 

Skip






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