Sounds like its having problems trying to upgrade. Try moving /home/mailman to another place then recreate the directory empty (and reset the rights (owner=mailman, group=mailman).
Now try installing into the empty directory. Jon Carnes On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 20:43, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > I sent this early this morning when I gave up on the upgrade for the day, I'd really >like to have someone look at this so I can try again tonight. > > Van > > "G. Armour Van Horn" wrote: > > > I've been running Mailman for most of two years, going from 2.0.5 to 2.0.12+ on a >very lightly loaded K6-233. I've finally been convinced to move up. Last night I >reved RedHat from 6.2 to 7.2, installed Python2 2.2.1, and generally brought things >up to date. > > > > I also added virtual host support to Postfix, as I have a client that wants this >on their new list. I am now hosting DNS for their domain, and mail to their domain >through the Postfix-style virtual host works. > > > > I decided not to change the Mailman location at this time, so I used the following > config: > > > > ./configure --with-mail-gid=99 --with-cgi-gid=99 --prefix=/home/mailman >--with-python=/usr/bin/python2 > > > > The configure runs fine right down to the end where it tells me I don't have >Chinese Unicode support and sends me off to a location where there aren't any files, >but I don't really expect to have a lot of Chinese customers on here. It's the next >step that is stopping me: > > > > make install runs smoothly for several minutes, but concludes with this: > > > > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/Version.py ... > > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/__init__.py ... > > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py ... > > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ... > > > Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "bin/update", line 44, in ? > > > import paths > > > ImportError: No module named paths > > > make: *** [update] Error 1 > > > > > > > The appropriate section in /usr/src/mailman-2.1b3/build/bin/update looks like this: > > > > > > > import paths > > > from Mailman import mm_cfg > > > from Mailman import Utils > > > from Mailman import MailList > > > from Mailman.LockFile import TimeOutError > > > from Mailman.i18n import _ > > > from Mailman.Queue.Switchboard import Switchboard > > > > > > > I tried commenting them out one at a time, but each time I just had to comment out >the next one. I blew away everything in the /home/mailman directory except the lists, >logs, and archives and got the same result. Just to be thorough, I cleaned everything >out, blew away the /usr/src/mailman-2.1b3 directory, extracted the install files >again, and there was no change. I even downloaded another copy of the tarball. > > > > So what am I missing? > > > > Van > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations > on a theme delivered every morning. > Enlightenment! Daily, for free! > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=Subscribe_QOTD > > For web hosting and maintenance, > visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
