SID-01929: ci errors

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	Perl 5.18.2
Category:	CategoryVersionControl	Server OS:	Ubuntu 14.04 - Minimal Virtual Machine	Last update:	11 years ago

I'm building a new web application server that will host our corporate Wiki and other applications. I am able to successfully install TWiki, and perform basic configuration using the configure script.

But once I log in, then try to modify some of the preferences in the WebPreferences of a web, I get the following error:

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

I have tried RcsWrap and RcsLite and RcsLite provides other errors.

System details below

-- Dorien Takeshi - 2014-05-29

Discussion and Answer

Very possible a file ownership issue. Make sure all dirs and files below the twiki root are owned by the webserver user.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-05-29

Yup, good'ol chmod -R www-data that directory as part of my initial install. All folders are owned by the server, and all files in the data directory have RW.

-- Dorien Takeshi - 2014-05-29

Actually, what I have noticed, is that under my "Store" settings, the permissions appear as

Folder: 02523 File: 02264

I recall entering it as 0775 and 0664.

-- Dorien Takeshi - 2014-05-29

We got reports already that the octal number is converted by configure to some gibberish. Looks like a bug, but I can't reproduce it at this time. For now please revert back to original state by editing twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg:

$TWiki::cfg{RCS}{dirPermission} = 0755;

$TWiki::cfg{RCS}{filePermission} = 0644;

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-05-29

To help debug, could you please try in configure script to set {RCS}{dirPermission} to 0755, and {RCS}{filePermission} to 0644. Please note that the leading 0 is significant, it denotes an octal number in Perl. The configure script will save the octal numbers in decimal format, so you will see 493 and 420 in LocalSite.cg, respectively.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-05-29

Thanks, yeah, so I checked the $TWiki::cfg{RCS}{dirPermissions} value, and they appeared to be correct, although in the configure script it generates something else. However, they were wrapped with the '' marks, I removed those and everything works fine now.

-- Dorien Takeshi - 2014-05-30

I am glad it worked out. Once I can reproduce it we can fix the issue.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-05-30

Also, just deployed the LdapContrib plugin, and the configure script has severely destroyed the Ldap settings, when editing the values, I'm getting weird characters etc being included.

-- Dorien Takeshi - 2014-06-03

That is very odd. Until this is fixed I recommend to edit lib/LocalSite.cfg directly.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-06-03

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