Re: [mv] UserTags not working - FIXED

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******

I installed Minivend 4.03 and now the usertags work fine!  I wish I could 
offer an explanation.  I had performed a complete reinstall of version 4.02 
- deleting all files and directories and starting with the distribution 
archive - twice, and the problem persisted.  Perhaps my copy of the archive 
was damaged in some subtle way?  Or maybe this relates to the "init.pl" 
error, which has been fixed in 4.03.

Wait!  Don't draw the curtain yet!  When I start Minivend with MINIMATE 
enabled, I get this message:

www-pws7: {60} % mvend4/bin/minivend -start -u
Low traffic settings.
Calling MiniMate....
Out of memory!
Out of memory!
Out of memory!
Callback called exit, <GLOBAL> chunk 1139.
END failed--cleanup aborted, <GLOBAL> chunk 1139.
Out of memory!
Segmentation fault
www-pws7: {61} %

Taking this at face value, I disabled Minimate in minivend.cfg, and the 
server started up without trouble.  I've tested the demo catalog and 
everything seems to work ok.  Here's a look at the server running:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
visprox  14102  0.0  0.3 10376 1472  ??  Ss    7:51PM    0:00.11 minivend

The memory consumption looks normal, and if I am reading it correctly, the 
sever has plenty of memory to spare.

What are the additional memory requirements for running Minimate?  If the 
ISP has restricted memory usage for this account, I will have to ask them 
for more headroom, and give them a realistic number.  Or does anyone think 
that something else is going on here?

Thanks!

- Ed L.





At 10:13 AM 3/28/00 +0200, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from jojo@buchonline.net     ******
>
>On 27 Mar, Ed LaFrance wrote:
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance 
> <newmedia@newmediaems.com>     ******
> >
> > At 05:27 PM 3/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >>******    message to minivend-users from Bill Randle
> >><billr@exgate.tek.com>     ******
> >>
> >>Ed,
> >>
> >>You didn't mention if you modified any of the demo pages or are using 
> them "as
> >>shipped". Usually, when I see unprocessed tags show up in the page, it's
> >>because of a bad [if][/if] - either mismatched, or a typo somewhere.
> >
> > Bill -
> >
> > No, I had not edited anything - the demo installed with the usertags not
> > working.
> >
> > I still have some kind of permissions issue with this install.  I cannot
> > stop or restart the sever without getting the "Could not lock file:
> > Permission denied" error.  Instead, I have to use the unix "kill" command.
>
>This is very strange! Are you sure, your minivend is running in FreeBSD?
>If yes, ask your ISP. Somethings is wrong in his setting of his system.
>I would suggest you, your ISP has to check all perl modules _is_
>installed for minivend.
>I´ve given a person an account in my web machine and he has installed
>minivend beside of my own minivend with no problem (start, stop,
>restart, etc.).
>Did your ISP use the "chown -R user:group <path-to-minivend>" all your
>minivend files (important) for you?
>
>
> > Since I posted the usertag question, the whole install is coming
> > unraveled.  I started poking around in minivend.cfg and catalog.cfg and
> > strange errors are showing up in the catalog. I am not doing anything that
> > I don't do all the time with other 3.1x installations and am using all the
> > same tools, but all of a sudden the catalog cant find the cart, can't find
> > itself... wierd stuff.
>
>Hmmm...this is happen with MV 3.1x or with MV 4?
>
> > I am doing a new install. If you have experienced any of these things and
> > have any ideas, please let me know.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>         Joachim
>
>
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