problem with corrupt config.db (PR#223)

[Bug Importer]

Jitterbug-Id: 223
Submitted-By: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:31:22 -0400 (EDT)
Version: 1.0 c3 and upgraded to 2 beta2
OS: solaris 7

The list was runing just fine .. the last thing I did was deleting a user
and
resuscribing it
I did it yesterday, now in the syslog, it shows:

Apr 12 17:44:27 neblina postfix/local[13804]: 2F6A837:
to=<email address hidden>, relay=local, delay=11, status=bounced
(Command
died with status 1: "/home/mailman/mail/mailman.wrapper post
reactecnicos".
Command output: Traceback (innermost last): File
"/home/mailman/scripts/post",
line 45, in ? mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 60, in __init__
self.Load() File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 792, in Load raise
Errors.MMBadListError, \ MMBadListError: Unmarshaled config info is not a
dictionary )
Apr 12 18:12:52 neblina postfix/local[20497]: D2FD433:
to=<email address hidden>, relay=local, delay=6, status=bounced
(Command
died with status 1: "/home/mailman/mail/mailman.wrapper post
reactecnicos".
Command output: Traceback (innermost last): File
"/home/mailman/scripts/post",
line 86, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/scripts/post",
line 43, in main
  mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 69, in __init__
self.Load() File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 870, in Load raise
Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError(
Mailman.Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError:
List's config.db did not unmarshal into a dictionary )

in the errors file it logs:

Apr 12 17:39:22 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post: File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ?
post: mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1])
post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 60, in
__init__
post: self.Load()
post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 792, in
Load
post: raise Errors.MMBadListError, \
post: MMBadListError : Unmarshaled config info is not a dictionary
Apr 12 17:44:27 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post: File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ?
post: mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1])
post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 60, in
__init__
post: self.Load()
post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 792, in
Load
post: raise Errors.MMBadListError, \
post: MMBadListError : Unmarshaled config info is not a dictionary

everything points to a corrupted config.db but I dont know how to fix it
...
is there any tools to do that ... where is the documentation for this
cases?
I recreated the list but moved all the files to a diferente directory, so I
still
have the config.db file ...

thanks in advance ..

-Oswaldo

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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

If both config.db and config.db.last are corrupt, there's little that can
be done. Note that Mailman 2.0b5 should be much more robust in the face of
these types of problems.