[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#1148663: django-admin migrate fails

[alain williams]

Mailman guru Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> suggested:

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On 9/22/26 17:21, alain williams wrote:
> I upgraded my server from Debian 12 to Debian 13. This broke several things one
> of which was mailman. It is now running 3.3.10-2.
>
> The web front end is not usable, it is failing with:
> django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1054, "Unknown column 'socialaccount_socialapp.provider_id' in 'SELECT'")
> so I suspect that some mysql tables were not modified.

You probably need to run Django migrations. I.e. as the mailman user, run

django-admin migrate

where django-admin is the name of your Django admin command.

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I tried that as user list. It failed, see below:

$ django-admin migrate
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/django-admin", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(execute_from_command_line())
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 436, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 412, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 458, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 103, in wrapper
    saved_locale = translation.get_language()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 210, in get_language
    return _trans.get_language()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 65, in __getattr__
    if settings.USE_I18N:
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 102, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 82, in _setup
    raise ImproperlyConfigured(
    ...<4 lines>...
    )
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting USE_I18N, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
list at bf2024:~$ 
                                                                                
                                                                                
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