Question

I installed TWiki on a server (I don't have root account), all was going fine (testenv and view). Then I run RelockRCS and it seems never end (browser alwais waiting for). Now, testenv never ends and don't complete, as you can see, view never ends, the site is not going at all.

Environment

-- LucaBagolin - 11 Sep 2004

Answer

• upgrade to version 2.0.50
• or look at the file bin/setlib.cfg. An hack is described there

For more details, see TWikiOnApache2dot0Hangs

-- GuillaumeNobiron - 11 Sep 2004

Sorry, I can't upgrade (I buyed hosting). Version is (testenv) SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 I tryed both the hack in bin/setlib.cfg ... with no result, all hangs. I don't understand why all was going fine and suddenly, all wrong, after RelockRCS. Is it necessary to restart server?

-- LucaBagolin - 12 Sep 2004

Sorry, the 2 solutions I told you were only about apache 2. As you are on Apache 1.3, we may look at something else.

-- GuillaumeNobiron - 12 Sep 2004

sorry for not replying earlier - but i just had a realisation :

when you are saying never ends, you actually may mean that you get some way through the script, and then the browser gets no more responces - and this is probably because the apache server has been set up to kill tasks that run for too long (a problem we run into here on sf on complex topics)

so no, you don't need to reboot your server. but I think that Matt, Crawford and I should be wacked about the head with a kipper as our design will not help here.

It sounds like I / someone will have to put the relock code into Store, to be run whenever the normal editing of a topic finds a topic locked by the wrong user. That will teach us to try to do it all in one hit

once you have read this, can you please move this topic to Codev, and change the TWikiForm to Bug ?

(if you can edit&save a topic that is not listed in the relock output, then you don't have to worry about running relock)

-- SvenDowideit - 13 Sep 2004

Maybe an intermediate short-term kludge would be to change relock so it only processes one web (dir) at a time? e.g. relock Sandbox, wait for return, relock _TWiki, wait, etc.

anyway, back to getting Guillaeme a working site: try using the manual process at WindowsInstallSummary

-- MattWilkie - 14 Sep 2004

After the restart of the server all was going fine again. I think that there was something wrong in the system diff command caused by RelockRCS. I want to say again (sorry for my english) that after RelockRCS all operations was neverending (maybe because using the command diff?). Example: www.mydomain.it/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome never ended until the restart of the server! I think the problem was in the diff (where you can see testenv stops).

Sven asked: can you please move this topic to Codev, and change the TWikiForm to Bug? I'm not athorized to move topics ... someone can help?

• Done. -- MattWilkie - 26 Sep 2004

-- LucaBagolin - 25 Sep 2004