lynsey

Like GaryTapp, I’m finding core dumps in in the WP top level directory. The blog appears to be working as it should, and the plugins are the same used on other WP installs. I wondered if it was a bad fantastico install. I took scribblerguy’s advice, did the back up, and uninstalled wp. Fantastico wouldn’t reinstall for some reason, so, installed WP from scratch (was easier than I thought). Downloaded new plugins, installed them, re-entered the postings from scratch (luckily only a few), re-installed the theme (Shades of Gray). Practical upshot: effectively a brand new blog – http://vanquish.ako.net.nz

The core dumps continue 🙁

I flicked a note to my host and they replied with:
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I’m afraid the core file is not telling much about the issues there , I tried to debug it with GDB and here is the info I could gather

[root@alexandria65 vanquish]# gdb -c core.25347
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.159.el4rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type “show copying” to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type “show warranty” for details.
This GDB was configured as “i386-redhat-linux-gnu”.
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/php/home/akonet/public_html/vanquish/index.php’.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x082d470d in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x082d470d in ?? ()
#1 0xbfe39f78 in ?? ()
#2 0x082d3f16 in ?? ()
#3 0xb6e28654 in ?? ()
#4 0xbfe39f14 in ?? ()
#5 0xbfe39f10 in ?? ()
#6 0xbfe3a108 in ?? ()
#7 0x00b8bf9d in ?? ()
#8 0x0a4ec6a8 in ?? ()
#9 0xbfe3a0c8 in ?? ()
#10 0x0102896d in ?? ()
#11 0xb6e28654 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x082d470d in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xbfe39f78 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x082d3f16 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb6e28654 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xbfe39f14 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xbfe39f10 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xbfe3a108 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x00b8bf9d in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#8 0x0a4ec6a8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#9 0xbfe3a0c8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x0102896d in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#11 0xb6e28654 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb)

so we know that these cores are generated by /usr/bin/php/home/akonet/public_html/vanquish/index.php but I tried to do any back traces with no luck, only wordpress will know how to debug it, they sure have the symbol tables.
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Where to from here?

Check: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/141501

Yep, I can get it to work if I stick with my original game plan – i.e. map the full paths, and then change the following lines:
91-Pick up your card:
92-$siteurl$ecard_path?message=$ecard_id&token=$token

to:
91-Pick up your card:
92-$siteurl?message=$ecard_id&token=$token

The end result is the ecard is kind of more like sending an e-post-it. When I pick up my card, it’s back to the post, with your own message, along with the original posting. As a proof of concept, this is a great plugin, in terms of useful, well, I guess it has motivated me to try to get it to work and force my hand into learning some php. :}

Thanks, Joost, great concept. Some things about it I love – the image upload/delete thing works nicely – in fact all the back end stuff seems to work fine when you finally get it working. The front end is needing further work.

What I’d like is more like a typical ecard approach – either a gallery, select, add a message and go; or a link from any photo on a posting that is ‘send this image as an ecard’, click, add a message and go. As it stands the plugin could be useful to the pro-bloggers as in – ‘saw this page, loved it, send it to someone else with a note explaining what was so cool’. While I can have more than one image on a page/post, every time I do another form gets added…

There’s a slicker, and more typical ecard model, plugin/widget just busting to be written.

Like you, mindimer, I got a similar or maybe the same url error. Part of the trick appears to be that the plugin unpacks in a directory called ‘ecards’. Nice and tidy. Unfortunately, the plugin hasn’t got the directory part sorted out. I can get past the upload stage by editing some of the lines with the full path.

This’ll be slamming it with a sledgehammer, there’ll be some elegant php way of doing this, meanwhile, I edited lines 146, 150, 163, and 174 i.e. where ever there’s path reference, and added the directory (ecards) and told the plugin where stuff is to be found.

E.g. wp-admin/edit.php?page=ecards.php became
http:/ /myblog/wp-admin/edit.php?page=http:/ / myblog/wp-content/plugins/ecards/ecards.php

Revolting, but suddenly I could upload images, plonk the [Ecard=17] (or whatever number it was), send the email, receive the email, and delete the image file.

Note, I haven’t mentioned I could pick up the card yet, or that the image file was attached, or quite any part of that. But at least lumps of the plugin are starting to work. There will be a vastly more elegant method of getting the path stuff sorted – I’m a php-newbie and haven’t got the basics sorted yet.

I’ll continue to hammer away at it, it can’t be that complicated. Please give it a shot and report back how it works. Once we can get it going, we can turn our attention to the more important task of making it look good.

At my implementation of WP2.2.1 a person can apparently register to comment, and the message faithfully says an email will be sent, but it never is.

The person registering does have their name and email address recorded in WP as a subscriber, but their email (and password) response is not sent.

If people attempt to contact me via the contact form it also doesn’t work (although it does appear to – ie the handshake page is launched). I’ve had people try to register or send messages from around the world in case it was some sort of config issue with my laptop.

I’ve been a WP user for a couple of years now and it’s never missed a beat. Other than installing the 2.2.1 upgrade there’s been no other changes, no new plugins, nothing I can think of. Could my host have changed something, could fantasico have done something unusual with the upgrade, could WP be – gasp – buggy? Say it ain’t so.

I’m running akismet, Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer, bad behaviour, and spam karma 2 – yes, I’ve had spam or two before – and I wonder if one of these has become over enthusiastic in their guard duty. Seems unlikely. Ok, geeks and gurus, your thoughts?