I've monitored the wiki for the last 3 days, and the problem is
recurring about once every 24 hours. Each time I have run a cache
flush to no effect. The only solution I have is to re-enter the
missing data each time, which doesn't seem like a sustainable option.
If anyone could shed light on this or suggest a fix, I would appreciate it.
Since I can't seem to get rid of the problem, would it be better to
downgrade, or to backup the wiki and then try a from-scratch install
of 4.2m3? I'm not seeing similar behavior on my development server,
only the production machine...
thanks for all the help,
aaron
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ashtar Communications
<ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran a flush on the cache immediately after the problem recurred, and
> the settings were not restored.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> aaron
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Ashtar Communications
> <ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Vincent,
>>
>> Thanks for the help. Answers below:
>>
>>>> Email -- Admin Email and SMTP server. The rest of the settings are
>>>> maintained.
>>>
>>> What other setting remains that is not the default value?
>>
>> On the Email page, the Port, Server Username, and Server Password
>> always stay - only the Admin Email and SMTP server are cleared out.
>>
>>>> Page Elements - All panel settings, reverting to zero displayed
>>>> panels. Metadata visibility settings are maintained
>>>
>>> You modified those and they remain? If so the problem is not a cache issue
>>> that resets XWikiPreferences.
>>
>> I modified the panel settings to display two panels on the left, and
>> no panels on the right. When the bug occurs, The "show left/right
>> panel?" settings are set to "--" and the "Panels to Display" are
>> blank.
>>
>> The frequency of occurrence has dropped in the last day - at first it
>> was happening every 15-20 minutes, and today it went most of the day
>> with no apparent problems. The next time it occurs I will try to flush
>> the cache and see if that sheds any light...
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> aaron
>>
>>
>>> One thing you can test to ensure this:
>>> When the problem happens do a flush cache in a wiki page:
>>>
>>> {{velocity}}
>>> $xwiki.flushCache()
>>> {{/velocity}}
>>>
>>> And then verify if your settings are back.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>>
>>>> Registration - Use Email Verification, Active Authentication Check,
>>>> Validation Email Content, Confirmation Email Content. Everything else
>>>> is maintained.
>>>> Several entire Spaces - the wiki has a large number of spaces (~150).
>>>> They seem to be getting deleted at random. I will leave the page for
>>>> an hour, come back, and the link to the space homepage will have the
>>>> "question mark" icon next to it. The space will no longer appear in
>>>> the spaces list on the Dashboard.
>>>>
>>>> Any other ideas? I'm ready to downgrade back to 3.x - this only
>>>> started happening with a fresh install of 4.2 and it's obviously a
>>>> serious problem...
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> aaron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Dmitry Bakbardin <haru_mamb...@mail.ru> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> +1 vote
>>>>>> I had the same problem until set "Prevent unregistered users from
>>>>>> editing pages, regardless of the page or space rights" on.
>>>>>> But I don't know still if it is a bug or a feature :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a bug… Fixed in 4.2M3, see
>>>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-8160
>>>>>
>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dmitry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sun, 9 Sep 2012 01:52:12 -0400 от Ashtar Communications
>>>>>> <ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that my wiki is spontaneously resetting several configuration
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> settings, most notably the registration, email, and layout settings. I
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> enter information like the email server, address, and port, which
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> panels to display in the sidebar, or whether to require email
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> verification. After a few hours, I return to the site to find that the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> panels are turned off, email registration is turned off and the boxes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> for formatting verification emails, etc are blank, and half of the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> email settings are cleared. There may also be other configuration
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> options being reset that I haven't found yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am the only administrative user on the wiki. It's also definitely
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> not due to vandalism - exactly the same settings disappear every time,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> and it has now repeated itself 4 times in the last 24 hours.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm running XEM 4.2m2 on Tomcat with MySQL. Any help would be greatly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> appreciated...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>>
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