Re: [Slashcode-general] poll block not showing up

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Nov 23, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Harold Martin wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:59, Shane wrote:
>> On Nov 22, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Harold Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> After I created a new poll, the old poll wasn't displayed, but 
>>> neither
>>> was the new poll.
>>> The poll block has these properties:
>>> Block ID: poll
>>> Type: portald
>>> Section: index
>>> Ordernum: 3
>>> Portal: Checked
>>>
>>> What gives?
>>>
>> Again, you don't give any information. People on this list aren't
>> psychic, atleast that I know of. You need to supply information
>> everytime you post: verion of slash/apache/mysql, version of the perl
>> script that does the poll stuff, version of index.pl you're using. Did
>> you go into the admin editor and view the poll block to see how it was
>> setup? Did you read through the current bug-list on slash's
>> soureceforge to see if any of them relate to the poll system.... etc
>> etc...
>>
> Apologies, I didn't realize that was standard procedure.
> But treating me to days of silence won't suddenly make me realize I
> should've included that info.
>
> Linux kernel: 2.6.0-test9
> Linux distro: Gentoo (RedHat like)
> Slash:        2.2.6
> MySQL:        Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.16
> Perl:         5.8.2
> Apache:       1.3.29
> mod_perl:     1.27-r4
> index.pl:     1.11.2.24 2001/08/20 13:37:52
> pollBooth.pl:  1.15.2.10 2001/10/17 19:08:35
>
> None of the added polls are showing up under /pollBooth.pl
>
> I think I may have figured out the cause of this issue.
> I dumped the database to another HD, moved the original DB, then
> symlinked the DB directory to the path that I dumped to.
> (All per MySQL documentation, manual section 5.6.1.1).
> Since then, no database changes appear to be taking place (ie new
> stories), though SELECTs seem to be doin fine.
> I have ensured that permissions of the symlink and it's directories are
> equal to all of the old database's.
> I rm's the symlink, created a dir, and used mount --bind, but that
> didn't work either.
>
> I will ask about this on the MySQL list, as I realize that's probably
> the most appropriate place to go now.
>
> Thanks,
> Harold
>

check your current_qid variable in slash (admin.pl, vars).

that variable decides which poll shows up on the frontpage, I believe. 
(the name
may not be exactly correct as I'm typing it, but I'm 100% sure 'qid' is 
in the var's name)
See what that has in it...

  Shane