Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Template corruption?

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Posted by Reuven Lerner on

Samir, I would probably chalk it up to browser problems if we didn't see this on multiple browsers. Maybe Galeon is giving me problems, but I find it hard to believe that Galeon *and* two different installatiosn of IE are having these. Besides, when a Tcl error occurs, I see the Tcl error message (and stack trace) in the server's error log.

Speaking of which, here's the stack trace that I see every fourth or fifth reload of the page:

[11/Sep/2002:13:51:13][17659.4101][-conn1-] Error: GET /  can't read "signatory": no such variable
    while executing
"append __adp_output "

<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:${signatory}">${signatory}</a></address>
${ds_link}
</body>
</html>
""
    ("uplevel" body line 3)
    invoked from within
"uplevel {
          set __adp_output ""
append __adp_output "

<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:${signatory}">${signatory}</a></address>
${ds_link}
</body..."
    (procedure "template::code::adp::/web/melton/www/index" line 2)
    invoked from within
"template::code::${template_extension}::$__adp_stub"
    (procedure "template::adp_parse" line 57)
    invoked from within
"template::adp_parse [file root [ad_conn file]] {}"
    (procedure "adp_parse_ad_conn_file" line 7)
    invoked from within
"$handler"
    ("uplevel" body line 2)
    invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
    invoked from within
"ad_try {
        $handler
      } ad_script_abort val {
        # do nothing
      }"
    invoked from within
"rp_serve_concrete_file [ad_conn file]"
    (procedure "rp_serve_abstract_file" line 60)
    invoked from within
"rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/$path""
    ("uplevel" body line 2)
    invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
    invoked from within
"ad_try {
        rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/$path"
        set tcl_url2file([ad_conn url]) [ad_conn file]
        set tcl_url2path_info([ad_conn url]) [ad_conn path_inf..."

Normally, this error means, "you forgot to define the variable signatory in your .tcl page, dummy!" But I see this only sometimes, not whenever I reload the page. Some reloads are fine, some have that corrupted HTML output, and others produce this stack trace.

(Of course, since I restarted the server, everything has been fine...)

As for what modules I'm using:

[reuven@mail-gw aolserver]$ ls bin/*.so
bin/nscache.so  bin/nsext.so   bin/nsrewrite.so  bin/nsxml.so
bin/nscgi.so    bin/nslog.so   bin/nssha1.so     bin/postgres.so
bin/nscp.so     bin/nsperm.so  bin/nssock.so

Oh, one other tidbit: One of the developers on the project, I've discovered, has been using ns_puts inside of his .tcl pages for verifying and debugging. Could this cause such problems?