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[Dave Page <address@concealed>]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 09:26:29AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:

> > I've recently migrated my Sympa server from 6.2.16 (Debian 8) to 6.2.40
> > (Debian 10) and upgraded the database with "sympa --upgrade" as per
> > https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/upgrade/move.html
> > 
> > I'm now getting a lot of "No owner is defined for list" errors.
> > 
> > The lists seem to have owners defined in
> > /var/lib/sympa/list_data/$listname/config and entries in the admin_table 
> > in
> > MySQL - any idea where else I should be looking?

> the sympa --upgrade is done automatically when upgrading Debian packages.

Yes, this was a migration not an upgrade, so I was replacing the database with
an old one and upgrading manually.

> From the 6.2.34 owners and moderators are no longer stored in the config
> files, so the database is the authoritative resource.
> 
> Can you provide the complete error message? Does it go away when you delete
> the owners from the config files?

I believe the problem was due to filesystem permissions on the per-robot
subdirectory within /etc/sympa and I've now resolved this, sorry for not
reporting back!

Cheers,
Dave
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