SID-00544: Twiki is not working properly after Ubuntu upgrade

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.0	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	ubuntu 8.04	Last update:	16 years ago

Hi,

I have problems with my TWiki after upgrading my ubuntu from 6.06 to ubuntu 8.04. Somehow I am unable to open older revision of a topic, when I try to open older revision or click 'history' button, I get the following error message:

Content-type: text/plain TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

Can't kill STDERR: 'Permission denied'

I got the following from the server log: [Mon Sep 28 14:50:58 2009] [error] [client 10.1.32.26] Can't kill STDERR: 'Permission denied' at /opt/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki/Sandbox.pm line 388.

Anyone know what mistakes have I done? please help..

-- MartinLim - 2009-09-29

Discussion and Answer

when I run configure script, I got the following at the end of the page:

Software error: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/TWiki/Configure/Checkers/RCS/EgrepCmd.pm line 28.

-- MartinLim - 2009-09-29

I also have problem with creating new topic (I can edit existing topics):

Error saving topic During save of MartinLim123456789 an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator. =/usr/bin/rcs -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of .../Main/MartinLim123456789.txt,v failed to create history file =

Go back in your browser and save your changes locally.

I have verified that my {SafeEnvPath} is the following: $TWiki::cfg{SafeEnvPath} = '/bin;/usr/bin';

Not sure if this problem has the same root with the first problem.

-- MartinLim - 2009-09-29

Fixed. Dev/null need to have write permission

-- MartinLim - 2009-09-30

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