Re: Sorry WebDNA server not running
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
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texte = As long as I am the official, I guess it could be considered official terminology!It took me a while to discover that the 1250th order file out of 1442 was causing the problem. As soon as I took that file out of the directory my page worked fine. I have looked at the file and can see nothing amiss in it but WebCat sure doesn't like it. This error doesn't give me warm fuzzies about being able to look up stuff in my old orders. Not sure how it affects what you are doing.Larry Goodhew> > Munged order file? Is this official terminology? :P > > I've heard this theory before from someone who suggested I had a munged > e-mail file. Therefore, I have a cron script that simply blows away the > entire EmailCompleted and EmailProblem folders every night. Not sure I can do > that with Orders, though. As it turns out, there WAS a trigger for a > ProcessOrders.tpl aroudn the time of the crash. One thing to note, though, is > that I can't reproduce the problem myself... the same trigger is currently > happily firing away without incident. > > Two questions remain: > 1. Why is webdna blowing up because of a bad file? What is the FIX? > 2. Why can't webDNA restart? It tries really hard, I'll give it that much, but > it just can't get there. If I can start the server manaully with WebCatalogCtl > start, why does WebDNAMonitor fail? > > THanks > > - Ben > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf > Of Larry Goodhew > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:42 PM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: Re: Sorry WebDNA server not running > > > I had this error a couple of days ago on my server. It didn't actually take > WebCatalog down as near as I could tell. It could still serve up other pages. > The culprit turned out to be a munged order file. I was sweeping through them > looking at the date and the page would crash returning either this error or > ramdom bits of the file sytem. It was very strange. > > So bad/malformed data can return this error also. > > One more thing to look at! > > Larry Goodhew > > > > > OK, so that leaves bug or bad code, with bad code more likely. Any > > consistency in the error logs that would lead you to one template or > > another? > > > > -Will > snip > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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As long as I am the official, I guess it could be considered official terminology!It took me a while to discover that the 1250th order file out of 1442 was causing the problem. As soon as I took that file out of the directory my page worked fine. I have looked at the file and can see nothing amiss in it but WebCat sure doesn't like it. This error doesn't give me warm fuzzies about being able to look up stuff in my old orders. Not sure how it affects what you are doing.Larry Goodhew> > Munged order file? Is this official terminology? :P > > I've heard this theory before from someone who suggested I had a munged > e-mail file. Therefore, I have a cron script that simply blows away the > entire EmailCompleted and EmailProblem folders every night. Not sure I can do > that with Orders, though. As it turns out, there WAS a trigger for a > ProcessOrders.tpl aroudn the time of the crash. One thing to note, though, is > that I can't reproduce the problem myself... the same trigger is currently > happily firing away without incident. > > Two questions remain: > 1. Why is webdna blowing up because of a bad file? What is the FIX? > 2. Why can't webDNA restart? It tries really hard, I'll give it that much, but > it just can't get there. If I can start the server manaully with WebCatalogCtl > start, why does WebDNAMonitor fail? > > THanks > > - Ben > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf > Of Larry Goodhew > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:42 PM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: Re: Sorry WebDNA server not running > > > I had this error a couple of days ago on my server. It didn't actually take > WebCatalog down as near as I could tell. It could still serve up other pages. > The culprit turned out to be a munged order file. I was sweeping through them > looking at the date and the page would crash returning either this error or > ramdom bits of the file sytem. It was very strange. > > So bad/malformed data can return this error also. > > One more thing to look at! > > Larry Goodhew > > > > > OK, so that leaves bug or bad code, with bad code more likely. Any > > consistency in the error logs that would lead you to one template or > > another? > > > > -Will > snip > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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