SID-00393: Many warnings on initPlugin not returning true

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	Solaris 9	Last update:	16 years ago

My warning logs contain thousands of messages of the form

TWiki::Plugins::TWikiNetSkinPlugin::initPlugin did not return true

Searching on this has proved... interesting. The code refers to NetSkin; the documentation (and the category list for this support question) refers to NatSkin (a instead of e).

I checked the code; I am not getting a version mismatch warning, so I assume this means that getSkin() is not returning a string containing 'twikinet', or isAllowed() is returning false. I don't understand what the latter function is doing. And I don't follow what's going on with $epidermis in the other function. But I can tell from Google that this warning is happening to some other people. How do I fix it?

This line from LocalSite.cfg may be relevant:

$TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{TWikiNetSkinPlugin}{Enabled} = 1;

-- PeterScott - 2009-06-30

Discussion and Answer

This is actually spec of the TWikiNetSkinPlugin: It turns itself off for performance reasons unless the TWikiNetSkin is enabled. Unfortunately this results in many log entries.

File a feature request if you have a good idea on how to handle this case in the core code.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-01

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