SID-01925: RCS Permissions corrupted in Configure

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2)
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	Fedora 20: 3.14.3-200.fc20.x86_64	Last update:	11 years ago

Editing any page fails with:

During save of Sandbox.TestPageV6 an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.

/usr/bin/ci  -m%COMMENT|U% -t-none -w%USERNAME|S% -u %FILENAME|F% of .../Sandbox/TestPageV6.txt failed: 1 

Permissions on file:

--w------T  1 apache apache  426 May 19 23:02 TestPageV6.txt

The configure program is corrupting the permissions parameters. Correcting the values and re-saving does not help.

• {RCS}{dirPermission} 01356 (entered 750)
• {RCS}{filePermission} 01200 (entered 640)

Also,

• {SmimeKeyFile} is set to my Wiki username and
• {SmimeKeyPassword} is set to some value...

Manually adjusting the parameters in twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg also doesn't help.

When configure runs, httpd's error_log reports errors on various RCS modules:

[Tue May 20 11:21:38.546561 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 19502] [client 10.160.186.119:55351] AH01215: rcs: warning: -V is obsolete; instead, use --version, referer: http://10.160.49.47/twiki/bin/configure?t=1400584879

co --version reports: co (GNU RCS) 5.9.0

Additionally, I was getting errors from setlib.cfg setlib.cfg: defined(@array) is deprecated at setlib.cfg line 53. setlib.cfg: defined(@array) is deprecated at setlib.cfg line 55.

I corrected these two lines by removing the "defined" so that it tests against the scalar value of @localPerlLibPath. Prior to that fix, the @INC values for the shipped modules wasn't available. I got errors trying to install CGI::Session, so I needed to use the TWiki version. Correcting setlib.cfg fixed the configure error that CGI::Session wasn't available.

Thanks!

-- Stephen Preisach - 2014-05-20

PS:

Thanks to Brian Dunshaw, SID-01918, for noticing that the "corrupted" permissions values are the result of inappropriate decimal-to-octal conversion. I edited twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg with decimal values, and am operational -- until the next time I run configure.

Discussion and Answer

The permission issue sounds like a bug. Please file one at TWikibug:WebHome.

Not sure on rcs: warning: -V is obsolete; instead, use --version. On RCS 5.7 (default on Red Hat/ConetOS) --version produces an error, and -V works.

defined(@array) is deprecated at setlib.cfg is known issue, TWikibug:Item7487.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-05-20

We got a report and fix: TWikibug:Item7517 configure breaks {RCS}{filePermission} under Perl v5.18.2. This is caused by a Perl bug. The fix works around the bug.

Please apply the patch, then run configure and set {RCS}{dirPermission} to 0755, and {RCS}{filePermission} to 0644.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-06-17

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