_padDigits - internal Greymatter error?

[cenobyte]

I have just upgraded from 1.3 to 1.7.3 (which took some finagling and fancy footwork; I wonder if an older version of 'upgrade instructions' is in the manual?

Anyway, when I try to rebuild files or create a new entry, I get this message:

An internal Greymatter error has occured in _padDigits, possibly due
to invalid data, check your entryfiles and run Diagnostic and Repair.

It also appears to be happening whenever one tries to post a comment to my web journal (http://www.cenobyte.ca/words).

Have you any suggestions?

Also, my templates appear to have disappeared completely (it really wasn't a smooth upgrade).

[coldstone]

Could you be specific about which upgrade instructions you had trouble with? The more info we have the better we can make Gm. Those instructions were updated for the newest release.

What happens when you run Diagnostic and Repair? Since 1.7, Gm has been more picky about data and you may have some bad data in your entries.

The template issue is mysterious. If you look at gm-templates.cgi, do you see anything? Its a long process, but you can copy from your old template, into the correct box in your new installation, then save, to restore the templates.

[cenobyte]

I think we may have already covered this in the post about invalid ID parameters, but here's the info:

I attempted to upgrade from 1.3 (possibly 1.3.1?) to 1.7.3, and the upgrade did not go smoothly (due in large part to my neglecting to notice that I was transferring files in binary rather than ASCII). I found conflicting information about what to CHMOD files to (there was a step-by-step guide in the installation guide that said to CHMOD certain files to 775 and others to 644, whereas the 'quick upgrade' instructions said to CHMOD the libs and lang directories and all the files inside them to 644 - maybe I just misread it, but I was CHMODing all night (grin).

When I run Diagnostic & Repair, I get this:

# All config files are readable/writeable and are CHMODed correctly
# The local CGI path is correctly configured and all essential files are there
# The entries/archives path is readable/writeable and is CHMODed correctly
# The archive index file is readable/writeable and is CHMODed correctly
# All entry files are working correctly
# The entry list was successfully rebuilt
# The main index file is readable/writeable and is CHMODed correctly

I may very well have some bad data in my entries - at one point (back when I very first installed GM, in the days of 1.2, I think), I had some corrupted entries and had to do some clever stick-handling, but I've checked over those early entries and they seem to be okay. My guess is that there's a spam comment or two that hasn't got caught and deleted yet, but I've no idea how to find bad data in my entries.

Re: Templates - when I open gm-templates.cgi, there is code in there, of course (in the actual *file), but when I looked at the templates section of the admin area (in Greymatter), every single template was blank. I suspect this had something to do with the differences you mentioned in the other post, and probably I could have copied-and-pasted had I set up a local copy of GM before overwriting the other gm-template.cgi. I do still have the original backup files from 1.3.1, though, and may try to run a local instance of it to see if I can do that copy-and-paste thing.

[coldstone]

Thanks, thats good information. I have been meaning to give the install guide a thorough going over, but I realize I need to make this a higher priority.

For the templates, if you had any issues upgrading (like Gm quit in the middle) your template file may be in a bad state. However, I would like to try testing with your templates. Could you provide a link to your gm-template.cgi file (with a new extension, like .txt instead of .cgi)?

I tried upgrading a fresh install from 1.3.1 to 1.7.3 and didn't have any problems, so I am interested to see if the upgrade code has a problem that your templates are exposing.

[cenobyte]

I made copies of the template files and put them in my main public directory (I think you probably can't access my cgi-bin):

www.cenobyte.ca/gm-templates.txt

and the templates file I was using from 1.3.1 is here:

www.cenobyte.ca/gm-templates-old.txt

Possibly I just did something wrong and overwrote the original templates file somehow; I just thought it was odd.

Cheers,
j

[coldstone]

I tried upgrading to 1.7.3 a default 1.3.1 installation with the gm-templates-old.txt and can post the result if you want. However, the old templates don't really match your current site, so I am wondering if that file is from much longer ago?

I also tried upgrading a 1.7.1 to 1.7.3 with you gm-templates.txt, and the templates file was unchanged.

I am not sure what happened, but hope everything is working now for you, template wise? Write back if there are any issues.

[cenobyte]

Nah, I can deal with the templates. I probably just copied over the wrong file and erased my most recent template.

The bigger issue is that I can't post or comment or rebuild files because of this message:

An internal Greymatter error has occured in _padDigits, possibly due
to invalid data, check your entryfiles and run Diagnostic and Repair.

[coldstone]

Right, we'll get that taken care of in the other thread.