listadmin cannot "find version info"

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm a moderator of ubuntu-users, and use the listadmin package to do
the work... Occasionally, it errors out and says to email the
maintainer. I did that, but this seems better so I'm doing both.

The most recent message:

fetching data for <email address hidden> ... Can not find
version information, please mail maintainer. at /usr/bin/listadmin
line 705.

Retrying works, but often takes several tries and is a pain; just now trying 10 times brought no joy. Perhaps tomorrow?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: listadmin 2.40-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 9 21:27:00 2013
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: listadmin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman-pacbell)]

Confirming: it's now "tomorrow" and listadmin is working again.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

I can't reproduce anymore. Can anyone else?

[Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman-pacbell)]

It has never been consistent. Sometimes I don't see it for weeks.

I submitted the report hoping that the line number of the report would
help in re-crafting to emit a message that might be helpful in
identifying the cause of the bug.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Christian Reis <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can't reproduce anymore. Can anyone else?
>
> ** Changed in: listadmin (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098055
>
> Title:
> listadmin cannot "find version info"
>
> Status in “listadmin” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I'm a moderator of ubuntu-users, and use the listadmin package to do
> the work... Occasionally, it errors out and says to email the
> maintainer. I did that, but this seems better so I'm doing both.
>
> The most recent message:
>
> fetching data for <email address hidden> ... Can not find
> version information, please mail maintainer. at /usr/bin/listadmin
> line 705.
>
> Retrying works, but often takes several tries and is a pain; just now
> trying 10 times brought no joy. Perhaps tomorrow?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: listadmin 2.40-4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Jan 9 21:27:00 2013
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
> MarkForUpload: True
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: listadmin
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Kevin O'Gorman

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[Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer)]

I get this, too.
Dumping the resoponse, I get the x-died header:
'x-died' => 'Missing newline after chunk data: \'u" type="RADIO" value="7" ></center></td>\' at /usr/share/perl5/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 481.',

So Perl doesn't read the whole page.
This might be caused by chunk data https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80670
So an update of libwww-perl to 6.04 might fix the issue.

[Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer)]

In fact, it seems to be rather libnet-http-perl as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674788

and yeah, with that new version at least my listadmin works well again.