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Error deleting user [message #2236] Mon, 06 May 2002 16:28 Go to next message
esm2002 is currently offline  esm2002   United States
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Tried to delete a user test01 and received the following error message:

Warning: Unlink failed (No such file or directory) in /home/saint351/public_html/fudforum/nb/include/users_adm.inc on line 171
unable to remove users external settings

other than the Admin user, test01 was the only user.


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Re: Error deleting user [message #2237 is a reply to message #2236] Mon, 06 May 2002 16:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Fixed in CVS.

Affected file users_adm.inc.t

Patched file attached to the message.


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Re: Error deleting user [message #2239 is a reply to message #2237] Mon, 06 May 2002 17:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
esm2002 is currently offline  esm2002   United States
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OK, I'll copy that file to the server...

Since that error occurred, I have not been able to access the forum..."Cannot find server" or any of the admin pages...

Maybe, I'll save the forum.css and just reinstall it...maybe that will also fix the date





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Re: Error deleting user [message #2241 is a reply to message #2239] Mon, 06 May 2002 17:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hmmm....

That error was actually pretty harmless it merely indicated that a file that did not exist could not be deleted.

Try re-starting your browser and accessing the forum again...


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Re: Error deleting user [message #2243 is a reply to message #2241] Mon, 06 May 2002 17:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
esm2002 is currently offline  esm2002   United States
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yep, already tried that...still not working

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Re: Error deleting user [message #2245 is a reply to message #2236] Mon, 06 May 2002 17:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Okie when you go to the forum, what happens, does the browser just sit and do nothing?

cc intelligence.c -o intelligence
$ ./intelligence
Segmentation fault
Re: Error deleting user [message #2247 is a reply to message #2245] Mon, 06 May 2002 18:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
esm2002 is currently offline  esm2002   United States
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just sits there and never does get to the FUD forum

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Re: Error deleting user [message #2248 is a reply to message #2247] Mon, 06 May 2002 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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esm2002 wrote on Mon, 06 May 2002 2:08 PM

just sits there and never does get to the FUD forum


Okie, this is little snafu with persistant connections and mysql table locking and php's ineptness....

Basically, what is currently happening is that your PHP script when it got that error left the MySQL tables locked, and since php's dumb and didn't excute the atexit function which unlocks the tables because of that error.

So, you really have two solutions that you can try:

First you can restart your webserver which will fix this (because upon restart php will close all mysql connections and therefor drop the locks)

Second you can use mysqladmin utlity to get the list of all the active mysql threads, and kill off the thread that is holding the tables hostage Smile

Also, in the future to prevent this from happening disable persistant connections in the globals control pannel, while they do enchance the preformance a bit, because php is broken in some cases it's now safe to use it, as you've just found out.

If you require more help resolving this prob ask away Smile


cc intelligence.c -o intelligence
$ ./intelligence
Segmentation fault
Re: Error deleting user [message #2255 is a reply to message #2248] Mon, 06 May 2002 18:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I've seen this PHP issue with persistant connections relatively often (even screwed up a server once with it Wink) How about setting "using persistant connection" to "no" as default? This would be way safer since the forum would run at any case. Currently the default is set to "yes".
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Re: Error deleting user [message #2256 is a reply to message #2255] Mon, 06 May 2002 18:54 Go to previous message
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In 99% of the cases it is safe, especially since we have hadlers for errors that check for table locks and clear them. I suspect on some PHP versions error handler functions do not work as advertised and such problems occur.

This is actually the 1st time such an error has occured outside of our test servers. Under normal conditions ONLY fatal parse error (cannot be handled by php error handling) could in some cases result in a left over table lock.

As a rule generally persistant connections are better then opening a socket everytime.


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