Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-5 Followup-For: Bug #391700 I am still seeing this problem with the version of mailman in testing (which accoriding to packages.debian.org is the same as the version in unstable). Here's an example output from /var/log/mailman/error:
Feb 17 10:43:12 2007 (23077) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) Feb 17 10:43:12 2007 (23077) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose mlist.ArchiveMail(msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 214, in ArchiveMail h.processUnixMailbox(f) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 580, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 632, in add_article article.parentID = parentID = self.get_parent_info(arch, article) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 664, in get_parent_info article.subject) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 311, in getOldestArticle self.__openIndices(archive) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 251, in __openIndices t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i)) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 65, in __init__ self.load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 179, in load self.__sort(dirty=1) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 73, in __sort self.sorted.sort() UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) Feb 17 10:43:12 2007 (23077) SHUNTING: 1171726987.576879+a0a8107f50431a926b61f9878aa958559fff8bd5 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii apache2 2.2.3-3.2 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.3-3.2 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tr 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pwgen 2.05-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.5.6 automated rebuilding support for p ii ucf 2.0018.1 Update Configuration File: preserv mailman recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * mailman/queue_files_present: * mailman/default_server_language: en (English) * mailman/gate_news: false * mailman/site_languages: en (English) * mailman/used_languages: en * mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]