Re: [Slashcode-general] 500 errors on admin.pl?op=edit

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

On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Jamie McCarthy wrote:

> The "use of uninitialized value" is just a warning.  Those  
> won'tcause 500 errors, and in most cases aren't worth worrying  
> about.(_We_ worry about them because they usually indicate trouble  
> spotsin our code to look over, but they're usually not a problem  
> forother sites that are just running our code.)
> Likewise, the "_genericGets" is a debugging print that seems tohave  
> survived through more releases than it should.  Ignore it.
> Here's the actual error:
>> [Wed Aug  2 18:14:10 2006] [error] Can't call method  
>> "getFilesForStory" on an undefined value > at $SLASH_PREFIX/ 
>> $SLASHSITE/htdocs/admin.pl line 1442.\n
> That code reads (I'm assuming -- the line number on my checkout isa  
> little off):
>         if ($constants->{plugin}{Blob}) {                my $blobdb  
> = getObject("Slash::Blob");                my $files = $blobdb- 
> >getFilesForStory($sid);
> The problem is that the Blob plugin constant is set, whichactually  
> just means there's a line in the site_info table withname='plugin'  
> and value='Blob'.  That's supposed to (and usuallydoes) indicate  
> that Blob is installed.  But
>     getObject("Slash::Blob")
> is returning undef.  This could be for a number of reasons.  
> Trythese tests.  You should see something like what I see on my  
> testsystem:
> jamie@daisy:~/slash.cvs$ perl -MSlash::Test=slash -le 'print  
> getObject("Slash::Blob")'Slash::Blob=HASH(0x96c4f28)
> jamie@daisy:~/slash.cvs$ perl -le 'require "Slash/Blob.pm"; print  
> $INC{"Slash/Blob.pm"}'/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Slash/Blob.pm
> My guess is that that first line returns nothing on your  
> sitebecause getObject("Slash::Blob") returns undef.  The output  
> fromthe second line may help explain why.
> If those lines return similar values to mine, my next guess isthat  
> your "dbs" table is misconfigured.  For a one-DB-instancesite it  
> should be empty;  if yours isn't, paste a "SELECT * FROMdbs" into  
> email and let's take a look.--   Jamie McCarthy http:// 
> mccarthy.vg/  ja...@mc...

Piggybacking on what Jamie said, this is mentioned in the FAQ: http:// 
slash.lottadot.com/slash-faq

scroll down to first mention of 'getFilesForStory'

ie

http://slash.lottadot.com/faqster.pl?op=view&fid=1#q114

  Shane



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