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We have recently upgraded to 4.1.2 Topics including C++ now return an error C++ToolsForDatabase
TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information. Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^.*?/([^/]+)path++ <-- HERE ToolsForDatabase.*$/I would prefer not to change the topic names. Can anyone suggest a workaround?
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-- PeterThoeny - 15 Apr 2007
The apache error log shows the following
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^.*?/([^/]+)/CMS/C++ <-- HERE ToolsForDatabase
.*$/ at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/Plugins/RedDotPlugin.pm line 280.
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugins::RedDotPlugin::getCgiAction() called at twiki/4.1.2
/lib/TWiki/Plugins/RedDotPlugin.pm line 94
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugins::RedDotPlugin::initRedirector() called at twiki/4.1
.2/lib/TWiki/Plugins/RedDotPlugin.pm line 65
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugins::RedDotPlugin::
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] commonTagsHandler('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','C++ToolsForDa
tabase','CMS',0) called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/Plugin.pm line 245
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugin::invoke('TWiki::Plugin=HASH(0x8a34714)','commonTagsHandler','<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "
-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','C++ToolsForDatabase','CMS',0) called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/Plugins.pm line 333
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugins::_dispatch('TWiki::Plugins=HASH(0x925e95
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] 0)','commonTagsHandler','<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','C++Tool
sForDatabase','CMS',0) called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/Plugins.pm line 470
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::Plugins::commonTagsHandler('TWiki::Plugins=HASH(0x925e950)','<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C/
/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','C++ToolsForDatabase','CMS',0) called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki.pm line 2605
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::handleCommonTags('TWiki=HASH(0x8e39784)','<!DOCTYPE htm
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] l PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','CMS','C++ToolsForDatabase') called at /afs/ce
rn.ch/project/twiki/production/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm line 375
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::UI::View::_prepare('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...','TWik
i=HASH(0x8e39784)','CMS','C++ToolsForDatabase','TWiki::Meta=HASH(0x8e1c610)',0) called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm li
ne 343
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::UI::View::view('TWiki=HASH(0x8e39784)') called at /afs/cern.ch/project/twik
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] i/production/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 159
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at twiki/4.0.4/lib/CPAN/lib//Error.pm
line 379
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !eval {...} called at twiki/4.1.2/lib/CPAN/lib//Error.pm line 371
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !Error::subs::try('CODE(0x8e2bcf0)','HASH(0x8e56f30)') called at /afs/cern.ch/project/twiki/product
ion/4.1.2/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 199
[Mon Apr 16 12:00:10 2007] [error] [client 137...] !TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0x80d9ff0)','view',1) called
-- PeterJones - 16 Apr 2007
This looks like an issue with RedDotPlugin. Try to disable this plugin to confirm.
-- PeterThoeny - 16 Apr 2007
Using bin/configure I removed RedDotPlugin. What is starnge is that it still gets referenced.
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^.*?/([^/]+)/CMS/C++ <-- HERE ToolsForDatabase.*$/ at 4.1.2/lib/TWiki/Plugins/RedDotPlugin.pm line 280.RedDotPlugin itself is not used anywhere in these topics (I installed it for the NatSkin). In lib/LocalSite.cfg
$TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{RedDotPlugin}{Enabled} = 0;
but RedDotPlugin still appears in TWiki/InstalledPlugins.
I removed the .pm from lib/TWiki/Plugins and tried again but RedDotPlugin still get referenced. Could it be loaded from another Plugin?
-- PeterJones - 17 Apr 2007
Do you have ModPerl or SpeedyCGI enabled?
-- PeterThoeny - 17 Apr 2007
Yes SpeedyCGI is used in bin/view and is set to
#!/usr/bin/perperl -wT -- -M6 -r20However we had 30173 views yesterday and I get the same results this morning. -- PeterJones - 18 Apr 2007
% touch twiki/bin/view
-- PeterThoeny - 18 Apr 2007
Thanks Peter % touch twiki/bin/view did the trick.
Before closing this question can you confirm how the RedDot had been cached all this time.
-- PeterJones - 19 Apr 2007
You'd need to read the docs on command line parameters of speedy cgi.
-- PeterThoeny - 19 Apr 2007
For reference:
Q How much of perl's state is kept when speedy starts another request? Do globals keep their values? Are destructors run after the request?
A Globals keep their values. Nothing is destroyed after the request. STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR are closed -- other files are not. %ENV and @ARGV are the only globals changed between requests.
Q How can I make sure speedy restarts when I edit a perl library used by the CGI?
A Do a touch on the main cgi file that is executed. The mtime on the main file is checked each time the front-end runs.
-- PeterJones - 20 Apr 2007
Peter T.. I have a smiliar problem I have a customer who is trying to save a page und WYSIWYG but I get this error Software error:
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\.Service Level Management
** <-- HERE IN PROGRESS$/ at
/usr/local/twiki/lib/TWiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML/Node.pm line 625.
Dont quite understand what is wrong why the user can not save his page in this format but works fine for Wiki in edit mode
-- JeanneneSchelski - 21 Sep 2007
Looks like a bug. Please try to isolate the text that causes the issue and file a bug report with steps to reproduce the problem.
-- PeterThoeny - 18 Oct 2007
Topic revision: r14 - 2007-10-18 - PeterThoeny
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