[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1025662: matrix-synapse: synapse_register_new_matrix_user fails on recent versions

[Russell Coker]

Package: matrix-synapse
Version: 1.72.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

/usr/bin/synapse_register_new_matrix_user -u $1 -p $2 -a -k $PASS

I run the above command to create a new users, it's in a script that has been
working since April on one server and since 2020 on another.  Now it gives
the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/synapse_register_new_matrix_user", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/synapse/_scripts/register_new_matrix_user.py", line 247, in main
    elif config:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'config' referenced before assignment


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Enforcing - Policy name: default

Versions of packages matrix-synapse depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.77
ii  init-system-helpers         1.60
ii  libc6                       2.36-5
ii  libgcc-s1                   10.2.1-6
ii  libjs-jquery                3.5.1+dfsg+~3.5.5-7
ii  libpython3-stdlib           3.9.2-3
ii  lsb-base                    11.1.0
ii  python3                     3.9.2-3
ii  python3-attr                20.3.0-1
ii  python3-bcrypt              3.2.0-1~bpo11+1
ii  python3-bleach              3.2.1-2.1
ii  python3-canonicaljson       1.6.2-1
ii  python3-cryptography        3.3.2-1
ii  python3-distutils           3.9.2-1
ii  python3-frozendict          1.2-3~bpo11+1
ii  python3-ijson               3.1.4-1
ii  python3-importlib-metadata  1.6.0-2
ii  python3-jinja2              3.0.3-1~bpo11+1
ii  python3-jsonschema          3.2.0-3
ii  python3-lxml                4.6.3+dfsg-0.1+deb11u1
ii  python3-matrix-common       1.3.0-2~bpo11+3
ii  python3-msgpack             1.0.0-6+b1
ii  python3-netaddr             0.7.19-5
ii  python3-openssl             20.0.1-1
ii  python3-packaging           20.9-2
ii  python3-phonenumbers        8.12.1-1
ii  python3-pil                 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u1
ii  python3-prometheus-client   0.9.0-1
ii  python3-psycopg2            2.8.6-2
ii  python3-pyasn1              0.4.8-1
ii  python3-pyasn1-modules      0.2.1-1
ii  python3-pydantic            1.10.2-1
ii  python3-pymacaroons         0.13.0-4
ii  python3-service-identity    18.1.0-6
ii  python3-signedjson          1.1.1-2
ii  python3-sortedcontainers    2.1.0-2
ii  python3-systemd             234-3+b4
ii  python3-treq                18.6.0-0.2
ii  python3-twisted             20.3.0-7+deb11u1
ii  python3-typing-extensions   4.3.0-2
ii  python3-unpaddedbase64      2.1.0-2
ii  python3-yaml                5.3.1-5

Versions of packages matrix-synapse recommends:
pn  matrix-synapse-ldap3  <none>
pn  python3-pympler       <none>

Versions of packages matrix-synapse suggests:
pn  python3-authlib  <none>
ii  python3-jwt      1.7.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
* matrix-synapse/report-stats: true
* matrix-synapse/server-name: coker.com.au