Question

Hello,

I've just installed a vanilla installation of TWiki 4.2.0 and TWikiNetSkinPlugin. The skin works perfectly fine when I manually append "?skin=twikinet,pattern" to URLS, however, when editing the TWikiPreferences page (to add skin=twikinet,patern) I get the following error message (below).

Thanks for your support!

* I used the installer script that was shipped twas associated with the skin.

• error_msg.txt: Rest of the error message

Error message:

| 27 Apr 2008 - 13:12 | Base class package "HTML::Parser" is empty.
    (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first.)
 at /var/www/html/lib/TWiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML.pm line 41
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/html/lib/TWiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML.pm line 41.
 at /var/www/html/lib/TWiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML.pm line 41

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 28 Apr 2008

Answer

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Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008

Hello Anonymous User, I found that very problem in one of my TWiki installations. Although I did not install any Skins. One (promising) thing that differs from other machines (running TWiki just fine) is that the error occurs in a somewhat badly maintained OS. Could you please post your versions of perl and the libraries? Maybe we find some parallels.

-- MikeHerzog - 26 Jun 2008

I am having the same issue. Can anybody help?

-- TWikiGuest - 16 Jul 2008

Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed, or contact the author for support.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Sep 2008

For documentation purposes...

I found this same error while running 4.2.3 on OpenBSD with perl 5.8.8. Any other specific questions that could help?

-- MatthewCardozo - 30 Sep 2008

You could try to update HTML::Parser using cpan.

-- ArthurClemens - 30 Sep 2008

Did that right before seeing your post Arthur. Works like a charm.

I got this same problem running on an Ubunutu 8.04 LTS server virtual appliance. Not sure why HTML::Parser was out of date on both of these systems. Oh well.

Thanks again.

-- MatthewCardozo - 01 Oct 2008

Hello.

I had the same problem under Ubuntu 11.10. Completely fresh and clean installation. Fresh installation apache 2.2, twiki 5.1.

I had to update RCS and Downloaded "parse HTML reliably though software center libhtml-html5-parser-perl". Now it works so far, that the error disappeared.

cheers werner

-- WernerPoetzelberger - 2011-11-25

Werner, thanks for reporting back.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-11-27