Running Debian testing, mailman bails during what seems is a
configuration script after installation. Is this a know problem? Any
help will be greatly appreciated. The mailman list suggeted I look here
for help.
Thanks
Doug P (Error below)
apt-get install mailman
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
mailman is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mailman (2.1.9-7) ...
Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done.
Installing site language en ............................................
done.
No updates are necessary.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 297, in ?
main()
File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 272, in main
r = [do_list(listname, args, func) for listname in Utils.list_names()]
File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 201, in do_list
return func(m, *args)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/unicodify_archives.py", line 59, in
unicodify_archives
h.database.mapKeys(unicodify_fst, archive, hdr)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 341,
in mapKeys
self.__openIndices(archive)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 251,
in __openIndices
t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i))
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 65, in
__init__
self.load()
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 170,
in load
self.dict = marshal.load(fp)
ValueError: bad marshal data
dpkg: error processing mailman (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mailman