Gallery 2.3-RC-2 Feedback
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valiant
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Posted: Wed, 2008-10-01 23:44
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This topic is for feedback on the second (and final) release candidate of Gallery 2.3 |
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Thanks for trying, guys, but as per last 6 months or so, gallery is throwing a blank page. No errors in any logs, all the settings are right, php.ini is setup right.
If this helps: http://digitaltoast.co.uk/gallery/phpinfo.php and http://digitaltoast.co.uk/phpsysinfo/
It USED to be that if I could get to the admin, that part would work. What's the direct admin link again?
If there's some kind of debug I can put in that might help, let me know. But right now, it's blank pages immediately.
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Failure to activate NetPBM in 2.3RC2 - error message is:
Security Violation
The action you attempted is not permitted.
Back to the Gallery
Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED)
in modules\core\classes\helpers\GalleryUserHelper_medium.class at line 202 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in modules\core\classes\GalleryCoreApi.class at line 617 (GalleryUserHelper_medium::assertSiteAdministrator)
in modules\core\PluginCallback.inc at line 142 (GalleryCoreApi::assertUserIsSiteAdministrator)
in modules\core\PluginCallback.inc at line 67 (PluginCallbackView::handleCallback)
in main.php at line 450 (PluginCallbackView::renderImmediate)
in main.php at line 104
in main.php at line 88
System Information
Gallery version 2.3-rc-2
PHP version 5.2.6 isapi
Webserver Microsoft-IIS/5.1
Database mysql 5.0.67-community-nt
Toolkits Thumbnail, Gd
Operating system Windows NT DUAL-CORE 5.1 build 2600
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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@toastmaster:
see: FAQ: I get only a blank screen when trying to view my Gallery, what's wrong?
please create a topic in the support forums to discuss this issue.
please also specify when this issue started in your case. was it with gallery 2.2 already?
either way, this is a case per case issue and i'd like to discuss this in detail in a separate forum topic in the support forums. thanks.
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@doctor doctor:
do you still get the same error when you logout, login again and try to install/activate the netpbm module again?
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Upgrade to 2.3RC2 from 2.3RC1 without any problems. However, I also got blank page when I login my admin account. I check httpd error log and find the following error,
[Fri Oct 03 12:56:53 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method LoginNotification::getUserName() in /var/www/html/gallery2/modules/notification/classes/GalleryCoreEventNotifications.class on line 270, referer: http://www.xxx.xxx.tw/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.UserAdmin&g2_subView=core.UserLogin
After I checked "GalleryCoreEventNotifications.class", I copy the code in line 317-325 to line 281 (to duplicate "getUserName()" for LoginNotification class), the problem is gone.
The file is the same to 2.3RC1 and 2.3RC2. I've enable notification when install 2.3RC1 but didn't meet such problem.
By the way, I also find following error frequently in httpd error log.
[Fri Oct 03 13:07:46 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/gallery2/images/loading.gif, referer: http://www.xxx.xxx.tw/gallery2/main.php
[Fri Oct 03 13:07:46 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/gallery2/images/closelabel.gif, referer: http://www.xxx.xxx.tw/gallery2/main.php
[Fri Oct 03 13:11:37 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/gallery2/images/loading.gif, referer: http://www.xxx.xxx.tw/gallery2/main.php
[Fri Oct 03 13:11:37 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/gallery2/images/closelabel.gif, referer: http://www.xxx.xxx.tw/gallery2/main.php
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@engineer:
Thanks for reporting this issue!
talmdal is fixing the issue and increasing our test coverage for the notification module to ensure that we didn't miss similar bugs.
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@engineer:
as for your entries in the error.log, there's no clear sign that these files are referenced anywhere in g2. neither did these files exist before.
do you use any non official modules / themes?
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@engineer; fix on the way. what you've done will get past the error message, but i'd be surprised if the user name actually appears in the notification message.
http://www.timalmdal.com
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Question about the new slideshow applet, is it downloading the full-size photo when viewing the slideshow now? Users are noticing the slideshows take significantly longer to load a single photo. Is there any way to specify to use the resized version for the slideshow instead?
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@bensiebro
correct.
no, there is no way yet to configure it to use a resized version of the images.
suggestion: you could disable view access to the full size images, thus forcing the slideshow module to use the next best version of the images, which happens to be the first resized version.
note: it's not an applet. "applet" usually implies "Java applet" and G2.3 replaced the JavaScript slideshow with a better one. the slideshowapplet module (Java applet based slideshow) is still the same.
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I didn't install any non-official modules, the only one exception was Ebony theme. But I've removed it after tested few days because it still has some problems.
I have the same question, because I only find these GIF files are existed in some themes and modules, not in gallery2/images folder. I check httpd error log again, the problem occurred long time ago.
I'll try to figure out it at my spare time. Maybe, it is my fault to modify carbon theme. (Hey, I only modified CSS... :P )
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In fact, I were happy when I saw Gallery 2.3RC1 supported notification function, but I didn't recevie any e-mail notification when enabled it. Sorry that I didn't mention the problem before, because I guessed mail setting might be wrong in my server.
Until upgraded to 2.3RC2, it gave me blank page. It's the right time to check the problem, isn't it? After fixed it, I did recevie notification e-mail. :P
However, I disable it currently, because of too much notification e-mails. :P
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@valiant:
I solved the "loading.gif" and "cloaselabel.gif" problem. In addition to CSS, I have a local copy of theme\carbon\templates\local\theme.tpl in cabon theme folder. It is too old and has to be updated.
Sorry to disturb you, it is my own problem. :P
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hi,
I upgraded a 2.1 gallery to 2.3rc2 (multisite setup) which went fine. There's two things, a suggestion and a question:
* When unpacking the downloaded tarball or zip file, the unpacked files end up in a directory called `gallery2`. In other words, if an older version of gallery had been unpacked in that location before, files will be overwritten. I think it is good practice with source code trees to have the parent directory's name include the version number (e.g. `gallery2-2.3rc3`). This is esp. convenient if you have several versions of gallery2 installed for example in a multisite setup that you're about to upgrade from one version to another.
* I'm particularly interested in the "Dynamic Album" and "Keyword Album" features. I think to understand that I have to add these features (once their respective plugins have been installed and activated) in for example the sidebar block. When trying to add the "Keyword Album Links" to the sidebar block I get the following error message:
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Error reading block settings. Clear your browser cache and try again.
"""
After a peek inside `gallery2-2.3rc2/modules/core/classes/GalleryTheme.class`, lines 335 and the comment on lines 368-371 I think to see the code handling the block selection expects a string like "[["module.BlockName",{"param1":"value1",...}],...]", however what is posted when saving the theme settings looks like "[albumselect.AlbumSelect]+[keyalbum.KeywordLinks]". Am I indeed looking at a bug, or do I do something wrong here?
I hope this is of any help. Please let me know if I should provide more details or when it is better to post this issue in some issue tracker.
kind regards
j-w
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After digging I suddenly noticed that I was still loading the "old" css and js files. For my multisite setup I have a 'galleryBaseUrl' setting in my config.php file. After upgrading that setting to point to the resources that belong to 2.3rc2, things started to work a lot better...
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I recently upgraded from RC1 to RC2 and it went smoothly. My only modifications are a custom simplified theme.
I also agree with the previous poster's comment about extracting the files into a directory with the correct version number as the suffix.
-Chris
https://cnaude.mdns.org/gallery
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We may consider using a different folder name for the extracted gallery2 folder in future. We can't make this change so short before a release without updating all the docs and alienating a lot of users and redistributors.
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Hello,
I installed the RC2 minimal in a new directory, but when I want to download plugin list, I have an error (see below)
I think I have to chmod a directory, but which one?
Thank you
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Just thought I would report that G2.3RC2 and the new phpBB3 integration seem to be working perfectly. The problems I had with RC1 are all gone now. I have not tested all the features of gallery itself, but the embedded aspect is working beautifully. Nice job! Cheers!
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@bchantre: This error normally occurs when the gallery-server is too busy. Give it a second try in some hours and see whether the error is gone.
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I recently upgraded from RC1 to RC2 and now I don't see any options for slideshow or piclens.
Has anyone seen this problem?
Thanks
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@jdr0606:
is the slideshow module still active?
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As the song goes, "things seem to be decent". I used the upgrade option. The upgrade went without issue.
Great work folks.
regards,
patrick
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Gallery URL = http://www.idyll.com/gallery2/main.php
Gallery version = 2.3-rc-2 core 1.2.37
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.5 cgi
Webserver = Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4
Database = mysqlt 5.0.51a-community, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = Exif, Getid3, Thumbnail, LinkItemToolkit, ArchiveUpload, Dcraw, ImageMagick, jpegtran, NetPBM
Acceleration = none/86400, none/86400
Operating system = Linux s241.c4.crucialx.net 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:33:01 EST 2008 i686
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 172
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 2787
Rows in GalleryUser table = 3
Rows in GalleryItem table = 2774
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 160
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0
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When deleting an album, I get the nice, new AJAX popup, but I don't get a link to delete more items like when I go to delete a single item.
Is this by design or an oversight? Personally, I think for consistency sake it should be the same and not care what you are deleting. Then you don't have go remember a special order of doing things
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And since I'm thinking about interface. Bring back the Cancel button on the page where you can delete multiple items. It's there in 2.2.6 (and older), but missing from 2.3.
Just some things I'm noticing as I'm getting a bit of time to play with 2.3
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Yes the Slideshow module is still active.
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@engineer: The fix for the notifications was committed yesterday (r18117). So you should be able to get it from there or from one of the nightly downloads. If you get a chance to test, let me know if it works. Thanks
Tim
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@nivekiam:
regarding the delete album option: that's by design. deleting an album can be a very heavy operation (recursive deletion) and the heavier / longer an operation, the higher the likelihood that an error occurs and the more complex it gets to handle such errors.
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@nivekiam:
regarding the (missing) cancel button: good observation. i'll see what can be done.
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Uograded to RC-2 and now when using any of the links in the "Album quick links (DHTML) or (Dropdown)" to navigate I get asked to log in which never works and just asks again.
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Gallery version = 2.3-rc-2 core 1.2.37
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.6 cgi-fcgi
Webserver = Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Database = mysqli 5.0.67-community-nt, lock.system=database
Toolkits = Exif, LinkItemToolkit, Thumbnail, Gd, Ffmpeg, Dcraw, ImageMagick, jpegtran
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = Windows NT 6.0 build 6001
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_GB
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 19
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 4418
Rows in GalleryUser table = 5
Rows in GalleryItem table = 4402
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 93
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0
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I'm unable to override the ItemDeleteJs.tpl template.
I copy it to /themes/matrix/templates/core_1/ItemDeleteJs.tpl and make changes and they don't take effect. I can do this with any other templates I've tried so far, AdminPlugins.tpl, UserChangePassword.tpl, ItemMove.tpl for example.
@valiant, I just noticed the Move Item page also doesn't have a cancel button. Same for Edit Captions. In 2.2.x these pages had cancel buttons. While we're on the subject, why don't pages like Edit Permissions, Edit Album, Add Items, Add Album, Rearrange Items, etc. Is this oversight or by design? I personally think every page where an edit like action can be performed there should be a cancel button.
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@Taomyn:
If this is a bug / real problem, we'll need to resolve this within the next few days. Your help with this is appreciated.
Does it help if you reinstall the album select module? (uninstall the module, then install it again)
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@nivekiam:
- why would you want to override ItemDeleteJs.tpl? It's not really meant to be overridden. templates are only overridable if they're referenced with the gallery: prefix.
- regarding missing cancel buttons, it's a somewhat unintended regression, thus a bug. i've filed it at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2155975&group_id=7130&atid=107130
we've simplified the navigation / history system of g2 in G2.3 and that affected our ability to find out where to return to. if you don't know where to return to, a cancel option could only go to main.php or so.
we'll see what we can do and whether or not to address this in g2.3 (which we want to release next week).
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Actually, I don't know if need to, to do what I want. Personal preference, but I think the AJAX, popup dialog boxes are ugly and when I finally create a theme I want to be able customize the look of the dialog and how opaque or transparent the background, etc.
I've actually looked at it now and don't think I need to edit that template.
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Still happens I'm afraid - I've tried with Firefox and IE so I don't think it's the browser.
BTW. When you uninstall a plug-in there's a big warning about deleting all the info as well yada yada, but if you uninstall with it activated and then reinstall, it reappears activated when I would have expected to reactivate it. So not everything is deleted then?
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@Taomyn:
plugins are activated automatically if you install them. so that's fine.
please file a bug about the issue at http://sf.net/project/gallery/ with priority 7 and we'll look into it ASAP.
please include exact information on how to reproduce the problem, what behavior you'd expect when clicking on what link and what you observe instead.
thanks!
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will it be ok to wait and upgrade to the final version, rather than upgrade to RC2 now?
I am having trouble figuring what is a real problem, and what is a modification problem. I don't want to lose any info in testing the 2nd version out. Other than a few minor issues RC-1 is working great
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I would suggest upgrading. As you would then see if something that changed between RC1 and RC2 broke something. Then you can report it. Otherwise if the final release breaks something on your setup or doesn't work, then....
Betas and RCs should never be used on a production site. If you're using them, it's generally assumed you're testing them for you and hopefully the good of all users ;) Helping make sure the final release will work for you and hopefully others.
I don't understand what you mean by "lose any info in testing the 2nd version out". If you're talking about templates/themes, then if you've been following the guidelines of putting your changes for templates into local directories those will not ever get overwritten by an upgrade.
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@valiant Done
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@talmdal: I can receive the notification e-mail and no more blank pages. However, I enable both login and login fail events, I only receive emails for my successful login, no fail login and no other account login events. Notification module sent all users login events to administrator if I enable it, doesn't it?
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I have the same problem with norwegian locale in 2.3 RC2 as mentioned here:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/49678#comment-281113
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ok, I admit it is being used as full site, rather than a test site. My problem is I got attacked by a ad-ware worm or something? and it added script to all my files. I spent many hours removing it, and actually got the site back running perfectly. So a far as templates/themes being change(compromised)-they all have been changed.
So I guess what I am asking is-can I wait till the final release, or do I have to upgrade to RC2 to have the right steps (1-final) Or will the final be affected if I don't upgrade to RC2.
thanks :D
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You should be able to upgrade from RC1 to final release without any problems.
Please read through the Security guide to find steps to take to harden your G2 install: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Security
Of course that's not going to help if they gain access to your account or hack some other software. However, if you are able to run PHP in CGI mode as yourself, then you can lock things down pretty hard by making it so no directory or file is writable (except for g2data in Gallery's case). It does make it more of a pain to make changes as you have to change permissions on the parent directory then on the file you're changing, make the edit, then change permissions back.
What that would do is prevent any hole in any software from being able to modify files or add files to directories that aren't writable. Unless that hack is so bad that it's actually able to execute chmod and change permissions on files.
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@IngerK:
we can't fix this for G2.3. this would require a lot of testing, time that we don't have.
please add your comments at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&atid=107130&aid=1840561&group_id=7130
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@nivekiam:
the cancel buttons are back
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@nivekiam
Thank you for all your help and advice. It was a nasty hack, they screwed everything up. But as I said I was able to get everything back in order. Dave even looked at it, and he said it was something he's never seen before. I just get a warning on the storage I had 3 billion files changed when I upgrade, but it doesn't effect how Gallery runs. Rumour has it they sneek in through the FTP's, so I change my password every time I use it, seems to keep them away
My question is can just wait and jump from RC1 to final without any issue?
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You might want to stop using FTP. FTP transfers your password in plain text over the internet. It's trivial for someone to sniff FTP passwords. It's a good idea to use SFTP or SCP to transfer files.
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@Reiddust:
> My question is can just wait and jump from RC1 to final without any issue?
yes. you can always upgrade from any previous version to any future version.
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@Reiddust
Yes
I'd also follow cnaude advice. I never use FTP, I either use SFTP, SCP or if I have to use FTP I tunnel my connection through an SSH connection so the username and password are still sent encrypted, the data isn't in that situation, but the username and password are.
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I had no problems with RC1. RC2 may have started acting up after I upgraded XAMPP on the backend; GD just started stalling in the middle of creating thumbnails as I added local files.
If I backed up, I'd see my new folder had been posted, but had no thumbnails. If I clicked in the folder, no thumbnails. If I clicked on an image, I got a completely blank screen.
I went back to ImageMagick as the preferred package and my thumbnail problems disappeared immediately.
I want to say the last XAMPP upgrade was mostly security fixes for PHP4, but I could be wrong on that. Please let me know if/how/what you want me to do any testing. At this point, I don't know if GD went bad or XAMPP went bad or something else. I didn't change any configuration files but one line in one file, since redeemed.
Mike