Interesting! I've had similar, vague problems with other apps due to
write errors due to full disk. I always wonder why the applications
can't give clearer error messages in these cases :)

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guilla...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> it would be very helpful if you could document the symptoms you experienced
> as well as the solution on the new XWiki FAQ:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/WebHomeNew
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Guillaume
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:41 AM, goldring, richard <
> richard.goldr...@uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> Turns out all my wiki problems with disappeared attachment, scripts not
>> running, etc were down to partition /var running out of disk space! So
>> moved
>> default locations of apache tomcat and mysql to a much bigger partition
>> using symbolic links to link to the new locations and now all seems well.
>> Should have checked the obvious (disk space) first! So if anyone else gets
>> strange behaviour with xwiki - check your disk space first and save
>> yourself
>> a lot of time and hassle chasing down these 'problems'!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>> goldring, richard
>> Sent: 16 January 2012 08:18
>> To: 'XWiki Users'
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Can't attach files to wiki
>>
>> Yes its strange,
>>
>> This has happened since migrating from version 2.7 to 3.2. The import of
>> the
>> wiki pages via Exported xar files seemed to work ok, and the attachments
>> are
>> listed at the bottom of the wiki pages, butwhen you cick on them to view
>> the
>> attachments the wiki displays aa error message that the "The attachment
>> does
>> not exist."
>>
>> Has anyone any idea what's happened and how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Marius Dumitru Florea
>> Sent: 13 January 2012 17:32
>> To: XWiki Users
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Can't attach files to wiki
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Are you talking about the standard Attachments tab at the bottom of a wiki
>> page? Does it happen all the time? You should get this only if the session
>> expires. See
>>
>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise
>> 32#HCSRFpreventionisenabledbydefault
>> . In XWiki Enterprise 3.2 CSRF has been enabled by default. I haven't heard
>> any complains so far, at least not related to the attachments upload form.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Marius
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:36 PM, goldring, richard
>> <richard.goldr...@uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>> > When try to attach files to a wiki page get the following warning page
>> ....
>> >
>> >
>> > Warning
>> >
>> > This request contains an invalid authentication information.
>> >
>> > This might happen in the following situations:
>> >
>> >    * You left the editor open in another window/tab and logged off and
>> > on again
>> >    * Your authentication token exipired after a long period of
>> > inactivity
>> >    * Somebody tried to perform a CSRF attack
>> >
>> > If you are sure that none of these situations apply in your case, you
>> > might have found a bug. We are sorry about that, please report it on
>> > XWiki JIRA
>> >
>> > Do you want to resend the request? If unsure, say No.
>> > no
>> >
>> >
>> > ... Anyone know what's happening and how to fix it? I'm using XWIKI
>> > 3.2, Tomcat 5.5 and MySQL 5.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On
>> > Behalf Of goldring, richard
>> > Sent: 13 January 2012 09:25
>> > To: 'XWiki Users'
>> > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Backing up xwiki using mysql
>> >
>> >  Thanks Guillaume - it worked a treat - I'll setting up the my.cnf
>> > another time, but at least I can backup now!
>> >
>> > Does anyone know more about the recycle bin - don't seem able to
>> > access from the wiki, and (I guess any deleted wiki pages or
>> > attachments go into it?) the code snippet didn't seem to empty it from
>> > the database - any ideas how to empty it?
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On
>> > Behalf Of Guillaume Fenollar
>> > Sent: 13 January 2012 08:55
>> > To: XWiki Users
>> > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Backing up xwiki using mysql
>> >
>> > Hi Richard,
>> >
>> > Here a quickfix: use max_allow_packet directive directly into your
>> > dump command.
>> >
>> > mysqldump --max_allowed_packet=512m nms_wiki > backup.sql
>> >>
>> >
>> > If you want to understand this more, you should try to change my.cnf,
>> > in the section [mysqldump] (just like there is [client], you could
>> > create it if you
>> > haven't) and try the command without putting max_allowed_packet into
>> > the command, it should work too.
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Guillaume Fenollar
>> > XWiki SysAdmin
>> > Tel : +33 (0)1.83.62.65.97
>> >
>> > 2012/1/13 goldring, richard <richard.goldr...@uk.thalesgroup.com>
>> >
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> Running ...
>> >> mysqldump nms_wiki > backup.sql
>> >>
>> >> Returns ...
>> >> mysqldump: Error 2020: Got packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'
>> >> bytes when dumping table `xwikiattrecyclebin` at row: 2
>> >>
>> >> I did have some rather large import attachments - which I deleted but
>> >> they seem to have gone into the recycle bin - so I used the code
>> >> snippet
>> >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Empty+Trash+Bin
>> >>
>> >> To supposedly empty the bin, but get the same error above when I try
>> >> and dump the database seeming to indicate the recycle bin isn't empty.
>> >>
>> >> Tried increasing the max_allowed_packet when I run mysql, but doesn't
>> >> seem to have any affect - is something overriding it? We're running
>> >> on
>> > Solaris.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas/help would be appreciated so I can backup the wiki
>> >> successfully on mysql!!!!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Richard
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