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  • From: Francois Sauterey <address@concealed>
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  • Subject: [en@sympa] [fr@sympa] Plus de message "administratif"
  • Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:45:52 +0200

Hello every body,
For some time now, one of the Sympa servers I administer has stopped sending administrative messages (e.g., password requests, new administrators, new moderators, etc.)
It’s actually the creation of the temporary file that’s failing:
Server: Debian 13.1 aka trixie
Sympa: 6.2.76~dfsg-1

The error page:
DIED: Error in tempfile() using template /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX: Could not create temp file /tmp/_kUb0KwykE: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Tools.pm line 172.
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/File/Temp.pm line 1482.
File::Temp::tempfile() called at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/File/Temp.pm line 1083
File::Temp::new('File::Temp') called at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Tools.pm line 172
MIME::Tools::tmpopen() called at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Entity.pm line 1629
MIME::Entity::sync_headers(MIME::Entity=HASH(0x5644e6c28700), 'Length', 'COMPUTE') called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/Message.pm line 2555
Sympa::Message::_fix_utf8_parts(MIME::Entity=HASH(0x5644e6c28700), MIME::Parser=HASH(0x5644e6a03178), ARRAY(0x5644e3b109c0), 'utf-8') called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/Message.pm line 2434
Sympa::Message::reformat_utf8_message(Sympa::Message::Template <address@concealed>, ARRAY(0x5644e3b109c0), 'utf-8') called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/Message/Template.pm line 476
Sympa::Message::Template::_new_from_template('Sympa::Message::Template', 'listes.assureravenirpmi.org', 'sendpasswd.tt2', 'address@concealed', HASH(0x5644e61d5628), 'rcpt', 'address@concealed', 'template', ...) called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/Message/Template.pm line 190
Sympa::Message::Template::new('Sympa::Message::Template', 'rcpt', 'address@concealed', 'template', 'sendpasswd', 'data', HASH(0x5644e6bc3708), 'context', ...) called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/Spindle.pm line 42
Sympa::Spindle::new('Sympa::Spindle::ProcessTemplate', 'context', 'listes.assureravenirpmi.org', 'template', 'sendpasswd', 'rcpt', 'address@concealed', 'data', ...) called at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa.pm line 433
Sympa::send_file('listes.assureravenirpmi.org', 'sendpasswd', 'address@concealed', HASH(0x5644e6bc3708)) called at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi line 3963
main::do_requestpasswd() called at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi line 1518

Calling `tempfile()` directly works fine.
And it's been quite a while since I last used Perl!

Anyway, a little help would be appreciated ;-)


Best regard

--
Francois Sauterey



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