Question

When I enable MessageBoardPlugin I get a crash in TWiki/Prefs.pm. Looks like when the plugin prefs get processed it leads to a corrupt hash being merged...

This is a plain vanilla 4.0.5 install I just did yesterday for an extranet. Aside from installing the XpTrackerPlugin and creating a few users etc.

About the only thing even slightly non-standard is using mod_auth_mysql for external apache auth, which seems to work fine (and we've used this setup for our internal install for a couple years now, so generally that shouldn't be a problem).

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-- TodHarter - 09 Nov 2006

Answer

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The MessageBoardPlugin was tested on a very old TWiki version 01 Sep 2003, it might not run under TWiki 4. I suggest to post a question in the MessageBoardPluginDev topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2006

Well, oddly enough I not only installed this plugin on 4.0.4 a while back, and then even upgraded that to 4.0.5 and things were fine. I did post a comment as you suggested, though I fear it isn't a very active discussion.

Digging around in the perl code it seems that under some set of conditions which I couldn't quite nail down a plugin can attempt to merge a string into preferences. I think I qualify at the level of 'master perl wizard' so if I get time I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's a big if!

Just wondering if anyone has seen this sort of problem before. It IS an older plugin as you say, but from what I've seen both myself and others have run it at some point under reasonably recent TWiki. 4.0.x versions. I'm having a sneaking suspicion the problem has more to do with a change to some other preference someplace interacting with this plugin, hence 4.0.4 and 4.0.4 upgraded to 4.0.5 manage to run it.

-- TodHarter - 15 Dec 2006

Oops, making it an asked question again. Hope you don't mind. Thanks again, and TWiki rules!

-- TodHarter - 15 Dec 2006

No activity for over 30 days, sorry, closing this...

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Feb 2007