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-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--scripts/driver7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e2f64e12..b151e779 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
Bug fixes and other patches
+ - The message displayed in the browser when accessing a Mailman CGI when
+ mm_cfg.py can't be imported due to some exception other than ImportError
+ has been improved. (LP: #1760506)
+
- The reimplementation of DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT in 2.1.26 could cause extra
dequeueing and requeueing in the out queue by OutgoingRunner. This is
fixed. (LP: #1762871)
diff --git a/scripts/driver b/scripts/driver
index 67ff0fdf..3c8f831b 100644
--- a/scripts/driver
+++ b/scripts/driver
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# -*- python -*-
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2018 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ def print_traceback(logfp=None):
traceback = None
try:
from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION
- except ImportError:
+ except:
+ # There could be any exception if mm_cfg.py is not valid python.
VERSION = '<undetermined>'
# Write to the log file first.
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ a description of what happened. Thanks!
print '''<p>Please inform the webmaster for this site of this
problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been
explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the
-Mailman error logs.'''
+Mailman error logs or the web server logs.'''