[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#750525: Bug#750525: mailman: Master qrunner detected subprocess exit while decoding utf8 character

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Laurent Mazet wrote:

> Thanks to mailman an postfix, I'm running multiple mailing list for 2
> virtuals domain since 3 years without any majour issues. But one
> mailing list fall down 2 days ago, just after upgrading to 2.1.16-1.

> Jun 02 11:24:49 2014 (3899) Uncaught runner exception: 'utf8' codec
> can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 8: invalid continuatio

Do you have any custom language files? The new version requires
them to be in UTF-8 encoding, whereas the old version used a
language-specific legacy encoding (and, in some cases, even one
that wasn’t even good for that language).

The language files the package installs by itself would have been
upgraded to UTF-8 encoding during the package upgrade, but if you
made any modifications, you have to do that yourself. I see you
already have the /etc/init.d/mailman file changed, so, a local
modification, e.g. to the fr language files, may be a cause.

bye,
//mirabilos
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