Don Steiny wrote: > > I am on Debian 2.6.8. I used apt-get to update Python to 2-4 and >the latest version of mailman. I used one archive in sources.list; > >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > When I attempt to start it I get this message: > ># ># /etc/init.d/mailman start >* Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing. >* Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start.
This is a Debian package issue. Somehow your update of Mailman and Python has lost your prior Mailman installation. > Searching around the web I found I needed to create a list mailman >(though I have not figured out why it was not seeing my existing lists, >that is for later) Assuming your prior Mailman was 2.1.x, you already had a mailman list; it was lost with the others: >I got this; ># newlist mailman >Memory fault > >I thought the problem might be with the debian mailmail I went to >sourceforge and downloaded and installed 2.1.11 and nothing changed. I >though the problem might be with Python, I downlaoded and installed >Python 2.6 and there were changes in that when I tried to install >mailman I got this: Mailman 2.1.11 is not compatible with Python 2.6. Python 2.4 (if properly installed) should be fine; also 2.5. >Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ... >Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... >bin/update:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use >hashlib instead > import md5 >/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the sha module >is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead > import sha >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bin/update", line 51, in <module> > from Mailman import MailList > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module> > from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in <module> > from Archiver import * > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in <module> > from Mailman import Mailbox > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module> > import mailbox > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module> > import email.message >ImportError: No module named message >make: *** [update] Error 1 This is one of the Python 2.6 incompatibilities. >I copied over the 2.4 mailbox.py file to 2.6 and then I could compile >everything with the sha and md5 warnings, which are supposedly no big >deal, and I got one tiny change: > >/usr/sbin/newlist:96: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; >use the hashlib module instead > import sha >Memory fault > >What should I do next? Help! Make sure you have good backups of your Mailman lists/ and archives/private/ directories at a minimum. Make sure you have a working Python installation no older than 2.4.x and no newer than 2.5.x. Configure Mailman 2.1.11 with the appropriate prefix, var-prefix, etc to match your existing installation and make install. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
