From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Mailman do not starts after an system upgrade from Red Hat Linux 7.3 to 9. The error messages: # /etc/init.d/mailman start Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 524, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319, in main check_privs() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 274, in check_privs gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2] KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailman-2.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/mailman start Actual Results: Mailman does not start. Expected Results: Mailman starts. Additional info:
The solution: Add these two line to mm_cfg.py: MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman' MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman' It'd be good to add these lines to Defaults.py instead of lines MAILMAN_USER = '' MAILMAN_GROUP = ''
This bug was fixed a long time ago. For RHL 9, it should be available as an errata. Did you run RHN update? If for some reason that doesn't give you a working rpm then the latest rpm can be found at ftp.redhat.com which I know for a fact has this fixed. In the future please include the version of the rpm you're filing a bug on, it really helps. This can be done via: rpm -q name-of-rpm
I reported the rpm version: mailman-2.1-8. See above. I search it at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata.html, but mailman is not mentioned there, so you should release an errata entry for RH9.
The errata is RHBA-2003:179-05. I just checked, for some reason it has not been pushed to the server. I will follow up and see why.
Just to let you know the errata was just pushed. There had been a procedural error I was unaware of which had prevented it from being pushed earlier. It may take a little while till it shows up in RHN. My appologies for the confusion.