I ran a flush on the cache immediately after the problem recurred, and
the settings were not restored.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
aaron
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Ashtar Communications
<ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Vincent,
>
> Thanks for the help. Answers below:
>
>>> Email -- Admin Email and SMTP server. The rest of the settings are
>>> maintained.
>>
>> What other setting remains that is not the default value?
>
> On the Email page, the Port, Server Username, and Server Password
> always stay - only the Admin Email and SMTP server are cleared out.
>
>>> Page Elements - All panel settings, reverting to zero displayed
>>> panels. Metadata visibility settings are maintained
>>
>> You modified those and they remain? If so the problem is not a cache issue
>> that resets XWikiPreferences.
>
> I modified the panel settings to display two panels on the left, and
> no panels on the right. When the bug occurs, The "show left/right
> panel?" settings are set to "--" and the "Panels to Display" are
> blank.
>
> The frequency of occurrence has dropped in the last day - at first it
> was happening every 15-20 minutes, and today it went most of the day
> with no apparent problems. The next time it occurs I will try to flush
> the cache and see if that sheds any light...
>
> thanks,
>
> aaron
>
>
>> One thing you can test to ensure this:
>> When the problem happens do a flush cache in a wiki page:
>>
>> {{velocity}}
>> $xwiki.flushCache()
>> {{/velocity}}
>>
>> And then verify if your settings are back.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>> Registration - Use Email Verification, Active Authentication Check,
>>> Validation Email Content, Confirmation Email Content. Everything else
>>> is maintained.
>>> Several entire Spaces - the wiki has a large number of spaces (~150).
>>> They seem to be getting deleted at random. I will leave the page for
>>> an hour, come back, and the link to the space homepage will have the
>>> "question mark" icon next to it. The space will no longer appear in
>>> the spaces list on the Dashboard.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas? I'm ready to downgrade back to 3.x - this only
>>> started happening with a fresh install of 4.2 and it's obviously a
>>> serious problem...
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> aaron
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Dmitry Bakbardin <haru_mamb...@mail.ru> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1 vote
>>>>> I had the same problem until set "Prevent unregistered users from editing
>>>>> pages, regardless of the page or space rights" on.
>>>>> But I don't know still if it is a bug or a feature :-)
>>>>
>>>> It's a bug… Fixed in 4.2M3, see
>>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-8160
>>>>
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dmitry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sun, 9 Sep 2012 01:52:12 -0400 от Ashtar Communications
>>>>> <ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that my wiki is spontaneously resetting several configuration
>>>>>>
>>>>> settings, most notably the registration, email, and layout settings. I
>>>>>>
>>>>> enter information like the email server, address, and port, which
>>>>>>
>>>>> panels to display in the sidebar, or whether to require email
>>>>>>
>>>>> verification. After a few hours, I return to the site to find that the
>>>>>>
>>>>> panels are turned off, email registration is turned off and the boxes
>>>>>>
>>>>> for formatting verification emails, etc are blank, and half of the
>>>>>>
>>>>> email settings are cleared. There may also be other configuration
>>>>>>
>>>>> options being reset that I haven't found yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I am the only administrative user on the wiki. It's also definitely
>>>>>>
>>>>> not due to vandalism - exactly the same settings disappear every time,
>>>>>>
>>>>> and it has now repeated itself 4 times in the last 24 hours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running XEM 4.2m2 on Tomcat with MySQL. Any help would be greatly
>>>>>>
>>>>> appreciated...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>
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