Question

Whenever I submit a change to an existing page on my Twiki web, I get the following message:

Topic save error
During save of file Helgerman.DiskSuite an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.

/usr/local/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'granzowd' /twiki/data/Helgerman/DiskSuite.txt 2>&1 1>/dev/null
rcsdiff: /tmp/RCS/T2Z1aWWb,v: No such file or directory
ci: /twiki/data/Helgerman/DiskSuite.txt,v: diff failed
ci aborted

Go back in your browser and save your changes locally.

The changes are actually saved, but the revision history does not seem to be.

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
• Web server: Apache 1.3.20
• Server OS: Solaris 8
• Web browser: Netscape
• Client OS: Solaris 8

-- TWikiGuest - 19 Dec 2001

This sounds like RCSNotTrackingChangesOrViews, which has suddenly raised its ugly head for me after 2 weeks of smooth operation. I have to keep my eye on the error log. Whenever I get

ci: %FILENAME%: No such file or directory

I have to check recent changes to see what file it is. I do this by comparing the head revision of the ,v file and comparing it with the revision stored in the .txt file's metadata. If they're out of sync, I edit the page and save it without making any changes. This usually brings things back into sync.

-- JonReid - 19 Dec 2001

A couple of differences in our situations:

• The "No such file or directory" error appears to be generated by rcsdiff for me, and by ci for you.
• The rcsdiff command appears to be attempting to access a file in /tmp/RCS -- why? /tmp/RCS didn't even exist until I created it in an attempt to solve this problem, but that directory is still empty.

I'm still learning TWiki so I've having a hard time figuring this problem out. It's not consistent -- some pages give me the error with every edit, others only occasionally.

Is this a problem with RCS? How can I test to see that RCS is working as TWiki expects?

-- DougGranzow - 20 Dec 2001

I wonder if it has to do with RcsNonStrictLocking. -- JonReid - 20 Dec 2001

I'm still having this problem. RCS doesn't update version numbers of documents or keep track of changes. And on some pages, we get this Topic Save Error, which seems to be ignorable (it claims we need to go back and save changes locally, but in fact the changes do get saved -- there is just no tracking of the changes). So essentially we are getting the easy-to-update benefit of Twiki, but not the revision-history. If someone deletes something from one of our twiki pages, it is gone forever.

The rlog command shows all the files have strict locking in place and are locked by the user nobody, so I don't think it has anything to do with non-strict locking. If anyone has any clue what might be going on or what I can try to get closer to solving the problem, I'd appreciate it.

-- DougGranzow - 23 Jan 2002

I now think this problem had to do with "diff" on Solaris being different from GNU's "diff". rcsdiff apparently calls diff as part of the checking process. I have installed GNU diff on my system and at the moment Twiki seems to be working.

-- DougGranzow - 23 Jan 2002

I grabbed GNU's diff from sunfreeware.com. I'll see if I can't remember the steps I took to getting this up on Solaris and post them at TWikiSolarisFAQ

-- JoshuaMorast - 04 Oct 2002

Question

I installed TWiki in my $HOME$. I don´t have root access in this computer, them

I have this:

estanislau@ns2:~/public_html/twiki$ ls -l
total 888
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 692162 Jan 19 16:49 TWikiDocumentation.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 123154 Jan 19 16:49 TWikiHistory.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 10283 Jan 19 16:49 UpgradeTwiki
drwxr-xr-x 2 estanislau users 4096 Jan 24 10:37 bin/
drwxrwxr-x 7 estanislau users 4096 Jan 24 11:23 data/
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 837 Jan 19 16:47 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 5 estanislau users 4096 Jan 24 11:26 lib/
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 19696 Jan 19 16:47 license.txt
drwxrwxr-x 7 estanislau users 4096 Jan 24 11:23 pub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 475 Jan 19 16:47 pub-htaccess.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 4641 Jan 19 16:47 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 564 Jan 19 16:47 robots.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 554 Jan 19 16:47 root-htaccess.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 estanislau users 516 Jan 19 16:47 subdir-htaccess.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 estanislau users 4096 Jan 19 17:19 templates/
estanislau@ns2:~/public_html/twiki$

I can´t change the owner of the files and directories how is explained in the InstallGuide.

The problem is:

when I edit anypage I receive the message

During save of file TestTopic1 an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.

Problem opening /home/estanislau/public_html/twiki/data/Sandbox/TestTopic1.txt,v for writing

Go back in your browser and save your changes locally.

Anyone can help me ?

-- AlexandreEstanislau - 24 Jan 2005

Please read the SupportGuidelines and open a new question.

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Jan 2005