Re: gnatsweb/228: Internal Server Error when "submit edit"

[Kazunari Sekigawa <sekigawa@neo.shinko.co.jp>]

The following reply was made to PR gnatsweb/228; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazunari Sekigawa <sekigawa@neo.shinko.co.jp>
To: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
Cc: gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, sudheesh@softjin.com
Subject: Re: gnatsweb/228: Internal Server Error when "submit edit"
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:05:03 +0900

 Thank you for your reply.
 
 Yngve Svendsen wrote:
 > 
 > I think your problem may be caused by the GNATS database being locked. Such
 > a lock might be left after running gen-index, for instance. Look for a file
 > called gnats.lock in the gnats-adm directories of your databases and delete it.
 >
 > Gnatsweb should catch this, and I have identified the problem. However, I
 > don't plan to do any more work on Gnatsweb 2.x unless more serious bugs
 > surface. I believe that Gnats and Gnatsweb 4 aren't suffering from this
 > problem.
 > 
 > Please let me know how this turns out.
 > 
 > Yngve Svendsen
 > Gnatsweb maintainer
 >
 
 Before "submit edit," there was no *lock* file.
 After "submit edit," a lock file is generated in the name of
     {DB}/gnats-adm/locks/{nnn}.lock
 where {DB} is a database name and {nnn} is a problem number in {DB} and
 {nnn}.lock contains a user's name.
 The internal server error still remains the same.
 
 Once a lock file gets generated, then succeeding "submit edit" returns an error
 message saying:
     PR {CATEGORY}/{nnn} is locked by {user}
 This must be OK.
 
 After manually removing the lock file, I again issued "submit edit" then got
 the same internal server error.
 
 Thank you again for your help.
 K. Sekigawa 
  
 > At 06:17 01.08.2001 +0000, sekigawa@neo.shinko.co.jp wrote:
 > >Hi,
 > >
 > >When I use "submit edit" of gnatsweb,
 > >HTTP server returns an internal error as follows.
 > >
 > >(a) apache 1.3.19
 > >     [Wed Aug  1 12:56:27 2001] [error] [client 172.30.30.36] Premature
 > > end of script headers: \
 > >         /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.cgi
 > >
 > >(b) Netscape Enterprise Suitespot 3.5
 > >     [01/Aug/2001:12:46:06] failure: for host aaa.bbb.shinko.co.jp trying
 > > to POST \
 > >         /ppp/cgi-bin/gnats1/gnatsweb.cgi, cgi-parse-output reports: \
 > >         the CGI program /var/ppp/cgi-bin/gnats1/gnatsweb.cgi did not \
 > >         produce a valid header (program terminated without a valid CGI
 > > header. \
 > >         Check for core dump or other abnormal termination)
 > >
 > >Notes:
 > >  (1) I've renamed gnatsweb.pl to gnatsweb.cgi.
 > >  (2) I have multiple GNATS DBs.
 > >
 > >Thanks.
 > >K. Sekigawa