SID-00676: RcsFile reports "filename containing newline error"

Status:	Unanswered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	v5.8.5 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	CentOS release 4.4 (Final)	Last update:	16 years ago

When I run bin/statistics, certain webs were causing the following error:

Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at {full_server_path}/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm line 417.

As I took apart each web one by one, I found the following character combination used to create a table was the culprit. Note that the problem only happened when the table contains more than one row:

When this table was removed, or when the heading columns were placed in this order, the report went away:

I also noticed that I wasn't getting notifications because of the RcsFile crash.

Note: The original table actually had 4 columns and 2 rows, but I whittled the problem area down to this 2 x 2 segment and reproduced the problem.

I thought this was a new problem since we upgraded to 4.3.2 this month. However, I checked our server logs and we experienced the same problem with 4.0.4.

Any suggestions?

-- TonyChung - 2009-12-18

Discussion and Answer

this sounds very strange problem, is it possible for you to tar, gz the topics file and attach them to this issue topic (SID-00676) which has the problematic table/tables.

I could not recreate this issue on my development environments.

-- SopanShewale - 2009-12-18

Certainly. I created a topic and ensured that it crashes RcsFile.pm. I've attached it to this topic.

Here's another clue:

RCS: /usr/bin/rlog  -h %FILENAME|F% of .../Minutes/WebStatistics.txt,v failed:  at /var/www/html_static/twiki432/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 276.

-- TonyChung - 2009-12-18

I should also add that when I use <b> </b> tags instead of the boldface TML (*) the problem goes away as well.

-- TonyChung - 2009-12-18

@SopanShewale: Have you had any success replicating the error based on the files I attached? I'd hate to close this issue without at least an understanding of the root cause.

Thanks!

-- TonyChung - 2010-01-12

hi - sorry about forgetting to track this issue. I will surely check this during weekend. cheers

-- SopanShewale - 2010-01-14

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• controltest.tar.gz: Single page with table that crashes RcsFile.pm