Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.11-2 Severity: grave The Debianization of Mailman 2.1.11 has failed on a critical aspect, the properties of /var/lib/mailman/locks and /var/lib/mailman/logs made it impossible for Mailman to operate properly. The symbolic links used to point to ../../locks/mailman and ../../log/mailman (respectively) was not sufficient to make Mailman operational. The locks failed directly, causing Mailman to fail on start. The logs made it die within a minute. Removing those links and replacing them with the (in Mailman context) traditional locks and logs directories and by checking the properties of those useing /var/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms made Mailman operational. Thus, this is a workaround to use while the package maintainer fix things up. It is a serious bug that /var/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms does not run without problems, as this script is intended to avoid this situation, and it should be run with the -f flag at upgrades etc. to ensure everything including user data is properly setup.
This bug is mainly caused by the wish to keep the standard filestructure. However, if the symbolic links can not be made to function properly, then the directories should be kept at /var/lib/mailman with proper bits and then symbolic links point into that directory rather than out of. Unless a stable symbolic link fix can be made, all directories needs to move "home" rather than be distributed out. If the proposed method is unacceptable, then it still needs to be applied until upstream has handled the bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii adduser 3.109 add and remove users and groups ii apache2 2.2.9-6 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.9-6 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n ii cron 3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.2-19 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.2-2 High-performance mail transport ag ii pwgen 2.06-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.8.5 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.007 Update Configuration File: preserv mailman recommends no packages. Versions of packages mailman suggests: ii listadmin 2.40-1 command line mailman moderator que ii lynx 2.8.7dev9-1.2 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona ii spamassassin 3.2.5-1 Perl-based spam filter using text -- debconf information: * mailman/used_languages: da en fi no sv * mailman/create_site_list: * mailman/gate_news: false mailman/update_passwords: * mailman/site_languages: da (Danish), en (English), fi (Finnish), no (Norwegian), sv (Swedish) * mailman/queue_files_present: * mailman/default_server_language: en (English) mailman/update_aliases: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
