Kralizec Craig wrote: > >I'm updating a mailman installation which is currently 2.0.11 running >under Solaris 9 on a Sun Sparc system > >I've compiled mailman-2.1.8 without a problem but when I went to install it, >it's aborted part-way through the update process with this error: > >---- start ---- > >Updating Mailman 2.0 pending_subscriptions.db database >Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "bin/update", line 789, in ? > errors = main() > File "bin/update", line 713, in main > update_pending() > File "bin/update", line 592, in update_pending > addr = data[0].address >AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'address' >gmake: *** [update] Error 1 > >---- stop ---- > >I made sure that the web server and mail server are turned off before >trying to install the new version of the software... > >Could this be an unknown problem when updating from 2.0.11, or is it >something more insidious - perhaps a problem with Python itself?
I'm not sure if this is a Mailman issue or if there is some specific problem with your data/pending.db file. I would have to research the actual pending.db format for 2.0.11 to answer this for sure, but I think Mailman is OK. update is trying to convert a pending subscription request from 2.0.11 format to the current pending.pck per list format and at the point of the error, data[0] is supposed to be a UserDesc instance and it is a string. If you are willing to abandon any unconfirmed subscribe, unsubscribe, address change or delivery re-enable requests or confirmation of held messages (I think they'll still be in the admindb web interface), you can just rename or move aside the data/pending.db file and rerun 'bin/update' which is the only part of the install that didn't complete. >The machine used to have Python 2.2 installed but before starting the >mailman upgrade I upgraded Python from 2.2 to 2.4. Maybe backing that out >by re-installing Python 2.2 will help? I don't think so. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
