Manager issues (server-dependant?)

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yurkobb Reply #1, 15 years, 10 months ago

Hello!
First of all, let me thank all the developers for their creativity, patience and time developing MODx.
And here’s my question:
I am experiencing some strange behavior when working in manager. In Mozilla Firefox, after clicking any link which is supposed to load another page, it often starts to load and then just stops showing "Transferring data from ..." forever. I need to reload the page one or two times to get it loaded again.
In Opera this doesn’t happen, although there’s another problem: when one clicks "Save" on a resource, it gets saved but the "Saving..." message doesn’t disappear and stays there forever (a permanent problem).
I have another MODx installation on different server and there’s no such things happening.
The characteristics of the problematic server:

System: FreeBSD web48.nic.ru 6.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p7 #7: Sun Oct 4 02:40:13 MSD 2009 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HNIC-SMP-ULE-IBM pl#12 i386
PHP version: 5.2.10
Apache Version: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_perl/1.29 PHP/5.2.10
MySQL Version: 	client: 5.1.16-beta (from php_info()); server: 5.1.41-log (from MODx System Info) with pdo_mysql

Thanks in advance for any attention,
Have a nice day.

The Earth is not the hell, and people aren't cursed, and joy in not a sin, but a gift of God. (Lesia Ukrainka)

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splittingred Reply #2, 15 years, 10 months ago

- Is mod_security enabled?
- Are you using any opcode caching such as eAccelerator, APC, winCache, xCache, etc?
- Any errors in core/cache/logs/error.log?
- Any errors in apache error log?

shaun mccormick | bigcommerce mgr of software engineering, former modx co-architect | github | splittingred.com

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yurkobb Reply #3, 15 years, 10 months ago

Quote from: splittingred at Nov 07, 2010, 09:07 AM

- Is mod_security enabled?

I can’t say for sure, but on hosting’s control panel it’s not listed in the apache module enable/disable page.
Quote from: splittingred at Nov 07, 2010, 09:07 AM

- Are you using any opcode caching such as eAccelerator, APC, winCache, xCache, etc?

I didn’t setup any of this.
Quote from: splittingred at Nov 07, 2010, 09:07 AM

- Any errors in core/cache/logs/error.log?

I cleared it recently (there were some, but arriving independently of the problem.) Although, these were arrived recently:

[2010-11-07 18:14:03] (ERROR @ /home/kamenchiki/beta/core/model/modx/modlexicon.class.php : 194) PHP warning: array_merge() [<a href='function.array-merge'>function.array-merge</a>]: Argument #2 is not an array
[2010-11-07 18:24:17] (ERROR @ /home/kamenchiki/beta/core/model/phpthumb/phpthumb.functions.php : 461) PHP warning: passthru() [<a href='function.passthru'>function.passthru</a>]: Unable to fork [which convert 2>&1]
[2010-11-07 18:24:19] (ERROR @ /home/kamenchiki/beta/core/model/phpthumb/phpthumb.functions.php : 461) PHP warning: passthru() [<a href='function.passthru'>function.passthru</a>]: Unable to fork [which convert 2>&1]
[2010-11-07 18:24:22] (ERROR @ /home/kamenchiki/beta/core/model/phpthumb/phpthumb.functions.php : 461) PHP warning: passthru() [<a href='function.passthru'>function.passthru</a>]: Unable to fork [which convert 2>&1]

Quote from: splittingred at Nov 07, 2010, 09:07 AM

- Any errors in apache error log?

Only messages about not-found files (incorrect url attempts).

Thanks for your time...

The Earth is not the hell, and people aren't cursed, and joy in not a sin, but a gift of God. (Lesia Ukrainka)

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yurkobb Reply #4, 15 years, 10 months ago

I’ve found the reason of the problems:
- Firefox delays were caused by a browser extension "It’s All Text". After I turned it off, problem disappeared.
- Opera hangs when saving only if TinyMCE is installed, I tried to deinstall it and everything was ok. After re-install, Opera hangs again.
Probably I should tweak some tinymce settings, should I?
Thanks in advance.

The Earth is not the hell, and people aren't cursed, and joy in not a sin, but a gift of God. (Lesia Ukrainka)

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rav3n Reply #5, 15 years, 10 months ago

probably you should not use opera for manager.

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yurkobb Reply #6, 15 years, 10 months ago

Quote from: rav3n at Nov 08, 2010, 03:36 PM

probably you should not use opera for manager.

I would gladly use mozilla only (this is my primary browser), but the site owner uses Opera, that’s why I tried it. Opera isn’t open-source, but it’s a more or less used (although, as I have said, I have no reason to use it personally), so probably we don’t want to ignore it completely.
Looks like I should report this issue as a bug in TinyMCE.
Thanks for your time reading this. Have a nice day.

The Earth is not the hell, and people aren't cursed, and joy in not a sin, but a gift of God. (Lesia Ukrainka)