[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#524662: mailman: after the 17/4 update mailma does not longer accept messages even from wgitelisted users,

[leo at dicea.unifi.it]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.11-11
Severity: grave


from http page:
******
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.11

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but
the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. 
*****

then from error log:

admin(7526): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -----]
admin(7526): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(7526): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(7526):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 110, in run_main
admin(7526):     main()
admin(7526):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 193, in
main
admin(7526):     nomessages = not mlist.GetHeldMessageIds()
admin(7526):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 146, in
GetHeldMessageIds
admin(7526):     return self.__getmsgids(HELDMSG)
admin(7526):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 141, in
__getmsgids
admin(7526):     ids = [k for k, (op, data) in self.__db.items() if op ==
rtype]
admin(7526): ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack
admin(7526): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(7526): sys.version     =   2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 21:59:32)
[GCC 4.3.2]
admin(7526): sys.executable  =   /usr/bin/python
admin(7526): sys.prefix      =   /usr
admin(7526): sys.exec_prefix =   /usr
admin(7526): sys.path        =   /usr
admin(7526): sys.platform    =   linux2
admin(7526): [----- Environment Variables -----]
admin(7526):    HTTP_COOKIE:
dicea+admin=2802000000690638ea49732800000037653334613732393163306430623730616539383561336132623635363031613038623132363262;
dicdpreferences=text&&background&&name&leo&size&
admin(7526):    SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2
PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2
mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
admin(7526):    SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/mailman/admindb
admin(7526):    SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2
PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2
mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at
dipolo.dicea.unifi.it Port 80</address>
admin(7526):
admin(7526):    REQUEST_METHOD: GET
admin(7526):    HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300








-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2                  2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  cron                     3.0pl1-105      management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.24          Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail 4.69-9          Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                3.7.1-5         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pwgen                    2.06-1          Automatic Password generation
ii  python                   2.5.2-3         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support           0.8.4           automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                      3.0016          Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
pn  listadmin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  lynx                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  spamassassin                  3.2.5-2    Perl-based spam filter using text 

-- debconf information:
* mailman/site_languages: it, de, en
* mailman/used_languages: de en it
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present: continue regardless
* mailman/default_server_language: en
* mailman/gate_news: false