Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.11-9 Severity: important The postinst runs the mailman "update" when upgrading. It failed, but the postinst exited successfully, ignoring the error. Running sg list -c "umask 002; /usr/lib/mailman/bin/update;" (as root) manually later worked just fine.
Here's the output of dpkg/postinst/... when upgrading: Setting up mailman (1:2.1.11-9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mailman ... Installing site language cs ............................................ done. Installing site language de ................................ done. Installing site language en ............................................ done. Installing site language fr ............................................. done. Installing site language nl ............................................ done. Installing site language pl ........................................... done. Upgrading from version 0x20109f0 to 0x2010bf0 getting rid of old source files Updating mailing list: mailman Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 774, in <module> errors = main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 664, in main errors = errors + dolist(listname) File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 194, in dolist mlist.Lock(0.5) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 161, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/mailman.lock.tofu.14934.0' Starting Mailman master qrunner: mailmanctl. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii pwgen 2.06-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.8.4 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0014 Update Configuration File: preserv mailman recommends no packages. Versions of packages mailman suggests: pn listadmin <none> (no description available) ii lynx 2.8.7dev9-2.1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona pn spamassassin <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: mailman/update_passwords: * mailman/site_languages: cs, de, en, fr, nl, pl * mailman/used_languages: cs de en fr nl pl * mailman/create_site_list: * mailman/queue_files_present: * mailman/default_server_language: en * mailman/gate_news: false mailman/update_aliases: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org