[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#732932: Bug#732932: Info received (Bug#732932: Acknowledgement (mailman: Mailman upgrade squeeze->wheezy fails because /var/lock/mailman dir does not exist))

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Op maandag 23 december 2013 12:06:58 schreef Chris Stephenson:
> >>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >>      ineffective)?
> 
> The install failed with a Python stack dump and a report that
> /var/lib/mailman/lock did not exist. This was a symbolic link to
> /var/lock/mailman.
> 
> >>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> I created the /var/lock/mailman directory and reran the install of
> mailman. The stack dump error went away. There was another error that I
> have reported separately

Why would that directory not exist? It is created by the init script, so if 
Mailman was running on your Squeeze host, it should be there.

I've also not seen this on my upgrades.

Cheers,
Thijs
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