Question

Error info:

When I edit TwikiPreferences, the Preview buttons shows that the text has been truncated, often in the middle of a word. The truncation does not seem to be at any particular place in the text - no particular character or number of characters.

This problem seemed to go away when I started using .htaccess authentication, but now it's back, so I can't edit that page. Naturally, I worry about users losing data on other pages.

In fact, before I was using .htaccess authentication, I sometimes saw an almost-completely blank Preview page (with just the title and the Preview background).

I have seen similar bugs, but none that offer a solution to this. I have the problem on both IE 6 and Firefox (Mozilla), and I don't have mulitiple edit windows open. It happens even on different client computers, so I think it really is a server problem.

ModPerlTruncatesEditedPages and DocumentContainsNoData seem to describe similar symptoms, but I am not using ModPerl.

TextTruncatedNewTopic looks like a duplicate of this.

Config info

• TWiki.cfg
• testenv output
• TWiki bin and lib directory paths:

Environment

-- MurrayCumming - 18 Aug 2004

Answer

perl 5.8.0 seems suspect; try a newer point rev

have you adjusted your config file because TWikiOnApache2dot0Hangs ?

have you read over the RedHat-specific topics?

-- TWikiGuest - 26 Aug 2004

Reply To Answer

> perl 5.8.0 seems suspect; try a newer point rev

Thanks for the clue. But there does not seem to be a newer perl for Red Hat 9 available from Red Hat, and I'd rather not mess things up with a from-source install. I'm using the beta now anyway because of other problems. The beta does not have this problem for me.

> have you adjusted your config file because TWikiOnApache2dot0Hangs ?

No, but I did not have that problem so far.

> have you read over the RedHat-specific topics?

Yes.

Thanks.

MurrayCumming - 02 Sep 2004