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Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:22, Julian Brown wrote: > Howdy > > I just installed V2.1. I am excited, I am moving my many Majordomo lists > over. But right out of the shoot, I ran into a problem with a confirmation > string. > > I saw some discussion about that in beta and before, but not exactly as I am > seeing it. > > Could you review this trace and tell me if I have it misconfigued in > someway? > > Thanx > > Julian Brown > > > f you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of > this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what > happened. Thanks! > Traceback: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 110, in main > subscription_confirm(mlist, doc, cookie, cgidata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 325, in > subscription_confirm > userdesc = Pending.confirm(cookie, expunge=0)[1] > TypeError: unsubscriptable object > > > Python information: > Variable Value > sys.version 2.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 15:29:57) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat > Linux 7.2 2.96-109)] > sys.executable /usr/bin/python > sys.prefix /usr > sys.exec_prefix /usr > sys.path /usr > sys.platform linux2 > Environment variables: > Variable Value > PATH_INFO /gettysburg > HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, > text/html;q=0.9, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif;q=0.2, text/plain;q=0.8, > text/css, */*;q=0.1 > CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded > HTTP_REFERER > http://roundtop.arthes.com/mailman/confirm/gettysburg/e7044384835a781fbee0fa > d0ac80b96a40323f5e > SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.7 > OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 > PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman > SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm > SERVER_ADMIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/confirm > SERVER_SIGNATURE > Apache/1.3.23 Server at roundtop.arthes.com Port 80 > REQUEST_METHOD POST > HTTP_HOST roundtop.arthes.com > HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 > SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 > QUERY_STRING > REQUEST_URI /mailman/confirm/gettysburg > CONTENT_LENGTH 130 > HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 > HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) > Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 > HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive > SERVER_NAME roundtop.arthes.com > REMOTE_PORT 1229 > REMOTE_ADDR 65.26.0.64 > HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us > PATH_TRANSLATED /var/www/html/gettysburg > SERVER_PORT 80 > GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 > HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 > SERVER_ADDR 216.62.147.33 > DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html > > He tried it again later and had a different but I am sure related problem > > ello, > > No, all cookies are enabled. I was using Netscape 6.2 > > I tried the link again in Explorer and Netscape and got the > following > > Bad confirmation string > Invalid confirmation string: e7044384835a781fbee0fad0ac80b96a40323f5e. > > Note that confirmation strings expire approximately 3 days after the > initial subscription request. If your confirmation has expired, please try > to re-submit your subscription. Otherwise, re-enter your confirmation > string. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org