Bug 18351

Summary:	mailman 2.1.1 emerge does not result in working mailman install
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Curtis Hogg <buckminst>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Todd Berman (RETIRED) <tberman>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Curtis Hogg 2003-03-28 02:43:52 UTC

After emerging mailman 2.1.1, I attempted to start the mailman queue runner, and
it would not start up. 

Attempting to start it manually by doing a 'su - mailman' then 'bin/mailmanctl
start' results in this:

mailman@uotani-arisa mailman $ bin/mailmanctl start
Site list is missing: mailman

With this error, /etc/init.d/mailman fails.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-mail/mailman 2.1.1
2. Perform steps indicated at end of emerge.
3. Attempt to start qrunner by /etc/init.d/mailman start

Actual Results:  
/etc/init.d/mailman script fails to start, manual start by 
- bin/mailmanctl start
results in the error message:
Site list is missing: mailman

Expected Results:  
Mailman's qrunner should have started up properly, to provide maillist mail
transfer.

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 3dnow apm avi encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png
quicktime sdl spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline java
tcpd libwww perl python imlib oggvorbis motif opengl X gtk mmx sse ssl aalib
alsa acpi crypt fbcon imap mysql oss pam svga tcltk usb -gnome -qt -qtmt -kde
-arts -cups -esd -gpm"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

Comment 1 Paul Belt 2003-03-29 09:11:13 UTC

/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.LINUX.gz
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.gentoo.gz
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.(EXIM|NETSCAPE|POSTFIX|QMAIL|SENDMAIL)
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.gz

If you follow the instructions in those documents... especially the part about creating 'CREATE YOUR FIRST LIST' ... you should get it working.

Comment 2 Curtis Hogg 2003-03-29 12:14:03 UTC

Unfortunately, that is not the case. I did make my first list, as per instructions, and still I received that message.

I believe I have 'solved' my own problem... according to the INSTALL file from the mailman-2.1.1 tarball, it states you must create a 'mailman' site list, and that is most likely what I need to do to fix this problem... however, this is still a bug because:

The mailman-2.1.1 ebuild states that you can find the INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/, but (at least when I emerge it, ymmv) there is no INSTALL file, gzipped or no, in that directory post-emerge. since the instructions  needed to fix this problem were in that file, and the post-install instructions given by the ebuild do not mention this, I believe the ebuild still needs to be fixed.

Comment 3 Todd Berman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-22 21:47:57 UTC

Fixed