Re: [Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-09-08 Thread billy noah
Thanks everyone. I am pretty sure no newer version was ever installed from source and it remains a mystery what went wrong. Asked on askubuntu.com and got this recommendation which did resolve the issue: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/ rm mailman* apt-get clean all On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-08-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 08/25/2015 04:28 PM, billy noah wrote: > Tried running an update today and received this message: > > Setting up mailman (1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1) ... ... > Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0 I'm with Steve on this. This is very wierd. The first message says you are s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-08-28 Thread Andrew Hodgson
billy noah wrote: [...] >Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done. >Removing unmodified files from /etc/mailman/eu done. >Directory /etc/mailman/eu not empty, not removed. Is there any chance you installed a later version of Mailman from source and forgot to remove the

[Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
billy noah writes: > Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0 > This is probably not safe. The basic answer is "You're going to need help from Ubuntu experts anyway because the package database is out of sync with reality, so go ask them." That said, there are three poss

[Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-08-27 Thread billy noah
Tried running an update today and received this message: Setting up mailman (1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1) ... Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done. Removing unmodified files from /etc/mailman/eu done. Directory /etc/mailman/eu not empty, not removed. *... {repeat above message