Software Error: Rebulding Master Index

[sweaverit]

I knew I messed up as soon as I clicked delete.

Greymatter froze while I was trying to save an entry, and then the entry got posted twice. So I got the bright idea to go into FTP and delete the .cgi file from the archives. BIG MISTAKE! BIG STUPID MISTAKE.

I changed the entry count number in gm-counter.cgi, and everything else seems to be working now except it still won't rebuild the Master Archive Index. I receive the following error:

Software error:

An internal Greymatter error has occurred in _padDigits, possibly due
to invalid data (359), run Diagnostic and Repair and check gm-entrylist and gm-counter.

Gm_Utils::gmWarn() at line 340 in libs/Gm_Utils.pm (Gm_Utils)
Gm_Utils::_padDigits() at line 319 in libs/Gm_Utils.pm (Gm_Utils)
Gm_Utils::toEntryPadded() at line 1369 in libs/Gm_Core.pm (Gm_Core)
Gm_Core::getArchiveVariables() at line 2544 in libs/Gm_Core.pm (Gm_Core)
Gm_Core::generateArchiveLogList() at line 561 in libs/Gm_Core.pm (Gm_Core)
Gm_Core::translateEntryTemplates() at line 4284 in libs/Gm_Core.pm (Gm_Core)
Gm_Core::constructArchiveIndex() at line 6840 in gm.cgi (main)
main::rebuildUpdate() at line 6431 in gm.cgi (main)
main::doRebuild() at line 177 in gm.cgi (main)
main::handleRequest() at line 94 in gm.cgi (main).
Error originated at at libs/Gm_Utils.pm line 418.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([e-mail]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

So I re-added entry 359 to the gm-entrylist.cgi, and now when trying to close it I get this error:

Error Notice

The file "/home/kevinjon/public_html/updates/archives/00000000.cgi" doesn't seem to exist. Please check that your files are in the correct location and that GreyMatter is configured correctly.


So I beg of you to look past my ignorance and ... maybe help me fix this. I've run Diagnostics & Repair several times now and it doesn't help.

[sweaverit]

Okay, I figured out how to fix this on my own. I'll post what I did incase anyone else ever has this same issue.

1. My Mistake: I deleted both cgi and html files for entry #359, in the archives folder.
2. My Solution: I opened gm-entrylist.cgi, and removed the line for the entry #359.
3. I opened gm-counter.cgi, and changed the entry count back to 358.
4. I went to the "edit entry" panel and made sure #359 was gone.
5. I rebuilt everything.


Now, if you accidentally remove the entry thats next to the last (say I have 360 entries, and I accidentally deleted 359, so my list skips from 358 to 360) then you'd change the filename of 360.cgi to 359.cgi, then open the cgi file and change the entry number there as well. You might even have to change it in the html version.

[coldstone]

Thanks for the information. You won't have to change the html. It is always build from the entry cgi file. It looks like when you first edited the entrylist and counter files, you introduced a bad character. Always edit the gm files in plain text mode or ascii mode. Greymatter will always choke if something other than a digit is found when looking for an entry number.