[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#268117: marked as done (mailman: upgrade
with old queue files present difficulties)
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Subject: mailman: upgrade with old queue files present difficulties
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Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.4-5
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This is undoubted related to bug 248438 and its resolution. I suspect
there are several different issues here.
I attempted to upgrade from 2.1.4-5 to 2.1.5-1 and got an error
because old queue files were present:
----------------------------------------------------
Preparing to replace mailman 2.1.4-5 (using .../mailman_2.1.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner
.
Configuring mailman
-------------------
Old queue files present
The directory /var/lib/mailman/qfiles contains files. It needs to be empty for the upgrade work properly. Please either
flush the queue (by way of mailmanctl start, then stopping it and redoing the upgrade when it is finished) or remove those
files. Note that removing the files will lose some emails sent to lists.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mailman_2.1.5-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
No updates are necessary.
Starting Mailman's master qrunner.
.
------------------------------------------------
I found this message confusing.
1) It refers to mailmanctl start, but that doesn't exist on my system.
I'm guessing the intent is /etc/init.d/mailman start.
I thought from the bugs and changelog that this check was
Debian-specific, but this seems like a generic message. At any rate,
it would be good to specify the proper Debian command.
2) The final sequence of messages is a bit odd: a dpkg error, then the
messages that "No updates are necessary" (after the previous
instructions that it would be necessary to perform the upgrade), and
then a message that the qrunner has started (after the previous
message that the user should restart it).
I assume these are all side effects of how you bailed out, but again
if the initial message could clarify matters that would be great.
3) It's unclear to me what the code is for mailman after all this.
The first few lines (and looking at timestamps in /usr/lib/mailman)
makes me suspect the 2.1.5-1 code is already on my system, despite the
messages I need to reinstall it. Undoubtedly if I were more familiar
with the dpkg internals this would be clear.
That's the easy stuff.
4) My other problem is that stuff seems to be stuck in qfiles/shunt.
Since the qrunner was running before, it should already have worked
it's magic. Restarting it after all the previous messages doesn't get
the files unstuck. I'm not sure why, or what I should do.
It's definitely worth noting the my installation is odd:
* I'm not really using it.
* I've fooled around with it to try to get it to work through my
dialup isp, including having hacked at the mailman code (awhile ago).
On the other hand,
* I did set up a basic list and alias (using exim3), as well as an
Apache web interface (obviously, only usable on my local machine).
* My custom code is gone; and I've been running the standard Debian
package for quite awhile.
* /var/log/mailman doesn't show any error messages; just notes that
the various runners are starting up.
# find /var/lib/mailman/qfiles -type f -ls
13152 4 -rw-rw---- 1 list list 103 Feb 19 2003 /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt/1045694578.512114+40f4abbe29aa8dbbcc6ed6bcbfdcbed75429eaec.db
11357 4 -rw-rw---- 1 list list 1599 Feb 19 2003 /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt/1045694578.512114+40f4abbe29aa8dbbcc6ed6bcbfdcbed75429eaec.pck
2003-02-19 was the date I built 2.1-5 (NOT 2.1.5) from source and
installed it on my system.
exim.conf includes
------------------------------------
mailman_director:
driver = smartuser
require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
suffix_optional
suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
-confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
-owner : -request : -admin : \
-subscribe : -unsubscribe
prefix = rbrobot+
prefix_optional
transport = mailman_transport
----------------------------------------------------
The unusual part is the use of prefix above, because of possible
routing through a single email address. But it is prefix_optional.
By the way, my code changes involved trying to get this prefix into
all the outgoing addresses; I gave up when I discovered how extensive
the changes would need to be.
As far as I can read it, the shunt seems to have a single message
which is the notice created when I made my first list other than
mailman.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26advncdfs
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii apache2-mpm-worker [httpd] 2.0.49-1 High speed threaded model for Apac
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-11 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii logrotate 3.7-2 Log rotation utility
ii pwgen 2.03-1 Automatic Password generation
ii python 2.3.4-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
* mailman/site_languages: en
mailman/used_languages: en
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
mailman/default_server_language: en
mailman/gate_news: false
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From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane at debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#268117: fixed in mailman 2.1.7-1
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Source: mailman
Source-Version: 2.1.7-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mailman, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
mailman_2.1.7-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.7-1.diff.gz
mailman_2.1.7-1.dsc
to pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.7-1.dsc
mailman_2.1.7-1_sparc.deb
to pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.7-1_sparc.deb
mailman_2.1.7.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.7.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 268117 at bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane at debian.org> (supplier of updated mailman package)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160
Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:57:45 +0100
Source: mailman
Binary: mailman
Architecture: source sparc
Version: 2.1.7-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Mailman for Debian <pkg-mailman-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane at debian.org>
Description:
mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
Closes: 268117 309339 309870 341699 344907 345234 346180 346297 347607
Changes:
mailman (2.1.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release:
- Update patches:
71_date_overflows.dpatch
76_fix-private-redirect.dpatch
99_js_templates.dpatch
53_disable_addons.dpatch
68_translation_update_nl.dpatch
- Drop patches merged upstream:
60_french_archtocentry
76_fix-private-redirect
- Bugs fixed upstream:
- Mailman loses header spam rules (closes: #309870)
* Pull fixes from various bugs from upstream CVS
* Ship documentation source (closes: #346180)
* Document queue-is-not-empty upgrade condition better
(closes: #268117)
* Updated debconf template translations:
- it (closes: #345234)
- fr (closes: #346297)
- sv (closes: #347607)
* Tweak mailman/update_passwords debconf note to address ambiguity in
English version discovered by French translation.
.
mailman (2.1.6-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
.
* Tweak 21_newlist_help.dpatch:
The "automagically setgid to right group" part was slightly
suboptimal. (closes: #309339)
* Update German translation of debconf templates (closes: #344907)
* Shut up DeprecationWarning with Python 2.4 in Scrubber.py (closes: #341699)
Files:
2cba239d1af2f72fcc20dc7d54b83450 738 mail optional mailman_2.1.7-1.dsc
81ea139ecd24fbd2a85a9185a37df402 6736536 mail optional mailman_2.1.7.orig.tar.gz
4bf14dd7ba35cad69fde4d4e72eabe9f 229456 mail optional mailman_2.1.7-1.diff.gz
d68af159191ffb6d092dc38632233ea8 8008202 mail optional mailman_2.1.7-1_sparc.deb
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