Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-5 Severity: normal (This report was originally erroneously filed as a followup for bug #391700.)
We recently moved our mailing lists from an old server running sarge to a new server running etch. We migrated the lists by simply copying all the data in /var/lib/mailman/ over. Most of our lists are internal, but we noticed that a few of our lists stopped getting their pipermail archives updated at various times after the migration. These lists were specifically those which often receive foreign-language spam. Some extra searching about the problem turned up what seems to be a very relevant bug filed upstream [1]. In the discussion are pointers to a couple discussions on the mailman mailing lists about this bug. This message [2] is particularly interesting, because it speculates that "if you upgrade in the middle of a month, you get this problem in the database." [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1246004&group_id=103&atid=100103 [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2006-February/018588.html We ended up regenerating the archives of the broken lists with a /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe <listname>. However, this was possible only because we had both an mbox archive and the HTML archives. After that, things were fixed. During the time that the pipermail archives were stuck, we got a large number of errors of the following form in /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 Anyway, these things pose a very interesting problem for sarge -> etch upgrades, and it should be addressed somehow... -- 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.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-23 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]
