Blog doesn't render 100% of the time since upgrading to 0.9

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:48 am

Hi,
Since upgrading to s9y 0.9, loading the main page doesn't always render completely. It will print the <head> portion of the HTML and start the <body> a bit and then dies right after this:

<table id="mainpane">
<tr>
<td id="serendipityLeftSideBar" valign="top">

Now this only happens about 10% of the time and reloading the page corrects it. Any idea what might be the problem? This is using the s9y default theme.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:30 am

What's your URL?

This may be caused by certain plugins. Which plugins are you using? Especially the Remote RSS Feed plugin can cause such trouble if the remote URL is down.

Regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:11 pm

Hi Garvin,
My URL is http://www.lengoldenstein.com

The Sidebar plug-ins I have are:
HTML Nugget 1.0
Calendar 1.0
Remote RSS 1.5
Weather 1.0
Authors 0.9
Categories 2.0
Quicksearch 1.0
Archives 1.0
RSS Syndication 1.0
Blog Administration 1.0
Powered By 1.0
Links manager 1.5
Coppermine Random Images
Shoutbox 1.01
Last google search 1.02
Top Referrers 1.0
Top Exits 1.0

The Event plug-ins I have are:
Markup: Serendipity 1.1
Markup Emoticate 1.1
Markup: NL2BR 1.2
Browser Compatibility 1.0
Spam Protector 1.26
Markup: Track exits 1.4
Statistics 1.21
Spartacus 2.4
Emoticon toolbar 2.4
Export blog as PDF 1.1
Fix common XHTML errors 1.4
Link List 1.4
Show last modification date 1.01
Coppermine Selector 2.01 (Doesn't work right with IE6SP2 - can't click images to select them - works fine with FireFox)
Category Assignment 1.0
Extended options for media manager 0.9
Extended properties for entries 1.6

Please let me know if I can provide any further information. Again, I stress that the page rendering problem only started after upgrading to 0.9. At the previous 0.8x release, I had no problems using the remote RSS feed plug-in.

Thank you!

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:14 pm

Okay, the plugins that can make problems are:

Remote RSS
Weather
Coppermine Random Images

Can you set those sidebar plugins to "hidden" and look if that changes anything?

Especially the remote rss plugin has been changed for 0.9 - if we can detect that one of those plugins is making trouble, we can investigate further. It might also help if you have access to your servers error logs?

Regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:18 am

Yes, I have access to the server logs. I've been keeping an eye on error_log but nothing of interest seems to be in there. Anything in specific you'd like me to check?

I set the RSS feed plug-in to hidden. I'll try that and see if the page still shows the rendering problem. If it does, I'll disable the other plug-ins as well.

I'll let you know how it goes, thanks!

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:52 am

Okay, that's great. Well, error_log would interest me in terms of timeout messages, or PHP Errors/Warnings

Regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:01 pm

Hi Garvin,
Since hiding the RSS feed plug-in, the blog hasn't run in to the rendering problem - that i've noticed. This plug-in is most likely the problem.
I guess something changed between the previous release and 0.9.

What can we do now? I checked the error_log and there are no PHP warnings or errors.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:05 pm

Which Sites/URLs are you syndicating? It might very well be their URLs/Hosts that make the problems, if they have sporadic downtimes?

Best regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:04 pm

The only site i'm getting an RSS feed from is:
http://www.historychannel.com/global/feeds/tdihrss.jsp

The uptime is pretty good. Never caught the site being down. And of course, this was only a problem after the .9 upgrade

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:03 pm

Actually the .9 update should have made it better, because it checks more of the RSS connections.

Can you try this plugin version:

http://nopaste.php-q.net/171667

I've added debuging there, which writes to a "rss.log" file in your s9y root. Can you see what gets written in your log?

Best regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:00 pm

Hi Garvin,
I installed the new plug-in code and un-hide the plug-in.
The very first time i clicked on my blog, the page didn't render. I think the pretty much confirms that the remote_rss plugin is the source of the problem.
The contents of the rss.log are:
2005-11-12 09:53] Cachefile does not existing.
[2005-11-12 09:53] URLCheck succeeded. Touching /home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat
[2005-11-12 09:53] Running Onyx Parser
[2005-11-12 09:53] Caching Feed (135 bytes)
[2005-11-12 09:53] Feed cache written
[2005-11-12 09:53] RSS Plugin finished.
[2005-11-12 09:53] Got feed from cache /home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat

Could it have something to do with the cache file not exist or being out of date and when the cache is updated, for whatever reason, the whole script exists?

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:01 pm

Hi Garvin,
I installed the new plug-in code and un-hide the plug-in.
The very first time i clicked on my blog, the page didn't render. I think the pretty much confirms that the remote_rss plugin is the source of the problem.

The contents of the rss.log are:
2005-11-12 09:53] Cachefile does not existing.
[2005-11-12 09:53] URLCheck succeeded. Touching /home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat
[2005-11-12 09:53] Running Onyx Parser
[2005-11-12 09:53] Caching Feed (135 bytes)
[2005-11-12 09:53] Feed cache written
[2005-11-12 09:53] RSS Plugin finished.
[2005-11-12 09:53] Got feed from cache /home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat

When I refreshed the page, it rendered fine.

Could it have something to do with the cache file not exist or being out of date and when the cache is updated, for whatever reason, the whole script exists?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:42 pm

Could you please check the contents of the file

/home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat

?

Regards,
Garvin

CaptainLen · Post by **CaptainLen** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:07 pm

-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache apache 135 Nov 12 09:53 /home/htdocs/lengoldenstein.com/templates_c/remoterss_cache_httpwwwhistorychannelcomglobalfeedstdihrssjsp.dat

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