Question

I'm getting this error on viewing some, but not all, TWiki pages: TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information. RCS: path  -h %FILENAME|F% of ...path,v failed:

This seems to be happening mostly on WebHome topics. I can't figure out what is causing this. I have a cron job that updates the WebStatistics pages, but it has been running nightly for some time and I just noticed this problem yesterday. Yet the problem must be related somehow. The TWiki logs shows entries like the following: | 08 Mar 2007 - 10:50 | RCS: /usr/bin/rlog  -h %FILENAME|F% of .../Webname/WebStatistics.txt,v failed:  at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 279.

I also noticed that pages that fail for viewing with this error do not fail for other operations on the same topic (edit, rdiff, etc). The only reference I could find to this error was in an instance where trailing commas were being appended to file names (example: WebHome.txt,v,), but none of my files have a trailing comma. I also see several *.lease files in the files system, some of which are very old, but these don't seem to correspond to the topic pages throwing this error.

I have tried running ./statistics manually, and also running =rcs -u -M WebHome* = on each web, but it doesn't seem to have helped.

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-- JohnDeStefano - 08 Mar 2007

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I'm baffled, but this seems to be a permissions issue, not an RCS issue. I changed ownership of all TWiki files globally to apache (the "user" that runs the web server service) and all is magically well again: chmod -R apache:apache /var/www/twiki/ I'll add this to the end of my statistics script; that should do the trick.

-- JohnDeStefano - 08 Mar 2007

I met with this problem too, and I have tried the other solution, but it's not working.

I have googled on this issue and I found that Google will return many pages with this error, but these pages are actually some WebIndex, Statistics page, etc. They are NOT suppposed to discussing this error. Thus I guess that, does it mean Google capture the error when it's spiding on these pages? So it's a widely met problem with TWiki on some kind of Env?

I am running TWiki 4.02, Apache 1.3, Perl 5.8.5, OS: EL4

-- ChimingPoon - 25 Apr 2008

Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008