I've recently had a drive go flaky on me and when the machine died,
several files were corrupted. I'm now trying to bring everything back
up on a new machine, copying over only what I must. This is turning
out well, except that I haven't been able to get my mailing lists working.
I've cpio'd over /var/lib/mailman/* and cp -a'd /etc/mailman/*, which
seems like it should be sufficient. However, sending mail to one of my
existing lists from the old system dies with
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1362, in Post
footer = self.msg_footer % d)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py", line 162, in DeliverToList
cmdproc.write("%d\n" % self.num_spawns)
AttributeError: num_spawns
and attempting to access any of their admin pages produces
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
main()
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 168, in main
FormatConfiguration(doc, lst, category, category_suffix)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 306, in FormatConfiguration
form.AddItem(FormatOptionsSection(category, lst))
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 361, in
FormatOptionsSection
AddOptionsTableItem(big_table, item, category, lst)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 376, in AddOptionsTableItem
val = GetItemGuiValue(lst, kind, varname, params)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 463, in GetItemGuiValue
return TextBox(varname, getattr(lst, varname), params)
AttributeError: num_spawns
The listinfo pages and archives remain intact and newly-created lists
are functional in all respects, so I'm fairly confident that I've just
failed to copy some part of the configuration of my existing lists.
But where is it?
