PRIVATE: HELP!! All data lost (PR#197)

[Bug Importer]

Jitterbug-Id: 197
Submitted-By: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 02:55:48 -0500 (EST)
Version: 1.1
OS: Linux

I REALLY need your help! I install Mailman one month ago, for a mailing
list of
aroeund 1800 subscribers. Yesterday everything crashed and I LOST ALLA
DATA!!!!!
A attach at the bottom of this message the bug report that was shown...
How can I retrieve the config file and the email database???
Please, help me, I'm really desperate!
Thanks

Elena
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> Bug in Mailman version 1.1
>
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
> If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a
> copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a
> description of what happened. Thanks!
>
> Traceback:
>
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
> main()
> File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 65, in
main
> lst = MailList.MailList(list_name)
> File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in
__init__
> self.Load()
> File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 817, in
Load
> raise Errors.MMBadListError, ('Failed to unmarshal config info: '
> TypeError: __add__ nor __radd__ defined for these operands
>
>
>
>
>
> Environment variables:
>
> Variable
> Value
> DOCUMENT_ROOT
> /home/httpd/html/groups/home
> HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
> gzip
> REMOTE_HOST
> 146.188.100.70
> SERVER_PORT
> 80
> PATH_TRANSLATED
> /home/httpd/html/groups/home/mktg/
> REMOTE_ADDR
> 146.188.100.70
> SERVER_SOFTWARE
> Apache/1.2.5 Cobalt
> GATEWAY_INTERFACE
> CGI/1.1
> HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
> en
> REMOTE_PORT
> 4664
> SERVER_NAME
> mktg.xmedia.net
> HTTP_CONNECTION
> Keep-Alive
> HTTP_USER_AGENT
> Mozilla/4.51 [en] (WinNT; I)
> HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
> iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
> HTTP_ACCEPT
> image/gif, image/x-xbitmap,
> image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
> REQUEST_URI
> /mailman/admin/mktg/
> PATH
> /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
> QUERY_STRING
> SERVER_PROTOCOL
> HTTP/1.0
> PATH_INFO
> /mktg/
> HTTP_HOST
> mktg.xmedia.net
> REQUEST_METHOD
> GET
> SCRIPT_NAME
> /mailman/admin
> SERVER_ADMIN
> <email address hidden>
> SCRIPT_FILENAME
> /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin
> PYTHONPATH
> /home/mailman

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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I'm afraid if the config.db and config.db.last files are both corrupt,
there's little that can be done. Mailman 2.0 should be much, much more
robust in this respect.