#274 closed Defect (fixed)
Viewing modules language file gives strange error
| Reported by: | timalsina | Owned by: | ben |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core | Version: | 1.0 |
| Severity: | major | Keywords: | corrupted |
| Cc: | brettp | Difficulty: |
Description
I had Elgg 1.0 full installed and did a lot of testing till I found this interesting bug.
If I open en.php files while the site is running, I am getting this strange error.
I shut down the server and re-loaded and the error is still there. (Something gets corrupted) It's making me to re-install Elgg from scratch. It happened twice already.
Environment:
Apache 2.x
PHP 5.2.x
PHP Memory: 256M
MySql: 5.x
I've attached the screenshot.
Attachments (1)
Change History (7)
Changed 5 years ago by timalsina
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by timalsina
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by timalsina
Even worst, in OS X 10.5 if I browse languages directory, the above error occurs. I used terminal and fired vi editor to edit en.php files. Under engine/start.php I added '.DS_Store' to exclude it from loading and having no luck.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by ben
- Owner set to ben
- Status changed from new to assigned
Which text editor are you opening the file with?
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by timalsina
I use TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/)
Even browsing the directory in OS X 10.5.4 causes this error. It only applies to languages folder.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by marcus
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from assigned to closed
This looks to be a OS X issue. I would suggest that you might have something running which is silently trying to convert files in the background.
If the issue only manifests when you edit/lookat en.php I would suggest that you refrain from doing so. :)
Also look at hosting Elgg on a different machine, as there is clearly something funky going on.
Closed since this is not an Elgg problem.
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by marcus
- Resolution changed from invalid to fixed
(In [svn:2044]) Closes #313, Fixes #274: Resolved strange OSX language file browsing, including speculative windows fix. Thanks for the patch!
I narrowed it down to what was causing the problem. If I open language files for any module, even just closing the files without modifying gives the attached screen error. I dumped just the language directory and everything is fine thereafter. Now, I copied language directory from unpacked full version of elgg and copied it into the associated modules directory and everything worked fine.
I tried saving the files in different formats: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-8 no BOM etc. etc. and having no luck.
I even created en.php language file from scratch and I am getting this error.