SID-00392: Strange look when edititing Topics

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	WysiwygPlugin	Server OS:	Debian 5 kernel 2.6.26-2-686	Last update:	5 years ago

When I try to edit Topics, which were imported from an TWiki4.2.0 System, i get a strange look.

Screenshot: Wysiwyg: TWikiMarkup-Editor:

-- DominicKrause - 2009-06-29

Discussion and Answer

This is strange, I have never seen that. Do new topics look OK?

How did you import the topics?

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-01

Even new topics look like this

The topics were imported by copying the data and pub directory from the old system (CentOS) to the new.

One thing, which may be important - the current system was installed by apt in version 4.1.2 and then manually upgraded to 4.3.1. All works fine - exept this. Even the topic view is correct.

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-01

Guess I'll try to install 4.3.1 manually from scratch and import the topics again. Maybe I hit something through upgrading 4.1.2 -> 4.3.1. Expect some questions in irc while I'm trying to install

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-01

Ok, now I'm perplexed; Reinstalled the whole debian system, installed TWiki 4.3.1 from scratch, all runs great - except editing topics. Same screen as above. New topics are crashed also. Some charset/locale issue? This way, editing topics is rather horrible...

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-01

...or unusable. The %20 is an indication that TWiki page content gets URL-encoded before getting passed over to the HTML editor. Not sure though how that can happen.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-01

Peter, I expect you're as perplexed as me, but you may have an idea where to start troubleshooting; How can I give you some hints? configure page/LocalSite.cfg? Anything else? Maybe I'll install 4.3.0 or any lower version to test if the error occurs there as well.

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-02

I can confirm this behavior on Debian Etch with Perl 5.8.8. I downloaded source files from https://twiki.org/download.html instead of installing twiki package and upgrading it.

Nothing interesting in TWiki logs. Apache error log says only: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Users/TWikiUserMapping.pm line 471. Doubtful that those things are connected, but this error is only raised when using WYSIWYG editor.

Do you need some more info?

-- JuriHudolejev - 2009-07-02

Okay, now I'm totally perplexed - if I edit topics on the server machine itself, using Iceweasel (kde/kdm) it works. If I use any other system (windows xp, FF & IE) it doesn't, and this issue occurs. What the hell is going on? I have no more ideas. Will try an install of 4.3.0, if this works, my boss will have to accept we can't have the latest version...

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-03

Update the xyz. Even TWiki 4.3.0 shows the same issue. Local edit on debian works, remote doesn't. I'm finished with my ideas. Don't know what to do. Hope anybody can help, otherwise I can't continue at the moment

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-03

The first thing that actually should be tried is to upgrade the TinyMCEPlugin. I've got an older version somehow, so upgrading via

configure : Extensions : Find more extensions : TinyMCEPlugin : Upgrade

solved the problem for me.

By the way, this topic seems to be related: TWikibug:Item5659

-- JuriHudolejev - 2009-07-03

Thank you very much, Juri! Now it works. So, notice to myself: install twiki as published, remember SID-00291 and correct this issue, then update the TinyMCEPlugin. Think this can be closed.

Thanks Juri and Peter.

-- DominicKrause - 2009-07-03

I am glad it worked out. And good we have it documented here in the TWiki support knowledge base.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-03

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