run_main(): initialize logger and multi to sys.stderr. This is in

case anything breaks between the start of this function and the
creation of the real objects, otherwise the calls in the except branch
will fail, kicking us back to a low-level exception.  using sys.stderr
isn't great, but it's better than nothing.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/driver b/scripts/driver
index 8bc207601..c85eb68bc 100644
--- a/scripts/driver
+++ b/scripts/driver
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
 
 def run_main():
     try:
+        # These will ensure that even if something between now and the
+        # creation of the real logger below fails, we can still get
+        # *something* meaningful
+        logger = sys.stderr
+        multi = sys.stderr
         # insert the relative path to the parent of the Mailman package
         # directory, so we can pick up the Utils module
         import os