General UI Undefined Catalog - was [ic] Error while editing subset of variable entries

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Hi Folks,

I'm getting no where trying to diagnose why that since 4.8.5 many of the 
admin UI functions bust with a returned 'Undefined Catalog:' error.

Below is a past of what I see on the screen, what is captured in 
error.log and the TCP traffic from Ethereal...

Netscape 6.2.2 Browser window:

Undefined catalog: mv_data_table=area&ui_meta_specific=&ui_page_title=&ui_page_title=&ui_meta_specific=&ui_limit_fields=&ui_show_fields=code%0D%0Aname%0D%0Awhich_page%0D%0Aurl%0D%0Asearch%0D%0Apage%0D%0Aselector&ui_return_to=admin%2Fflex_select&ui_return_to=mv_data_table%3Darea&ui_return_to=ui_sequence_edit%3D1&mv_action=back&item_id=10&item_id=20&mv_click=Edit


IC Error log:

- - - [22/May/2002:11:42:29 -0700] - 
mv_data_table=area&ui_meta_specific=&ui_pag
e_title=&ui_page_title=&ui_meta_specific=&ui_limit_fields=&ui_show_fields=code%0
D%0Aname%0D%0Awhich_page%0D%0Aurl%0D%0Asearch%0D%0Apage%0D%0Aselector&ui_return_
to=admin%2Fflex_select&ui_return_to=mv_data_table%3Darea&ui_return_to=ui_sequenc
e_edit%3D1&mv_action=back&item_id=10&item_id=20&mv_click=Edit Runtime 
error: Und
efined catalog: 
mv_data_table=area&ui_meta_specific=&ui_page_title=&ui_page_titl
e=&ui_meta_specific=&ui_limit_fields=&ui_show_fields=code%0D%0Aname%0D%0Awhich_p
age%0D%0Aurl%0D%0Asearch%0D%0Apage%0D%0Aselector&ui_return_to=admin%2Fflex_selec
t&ui_return_to=mv_data_table%3Darea&ui_return_to=ui_sequence_edit%3D1&mv_action=
back&item_id=10&item_id=20&mv_click=Edit at 
/ibin/interchange/lib/Vend/Server.pm
 line 182.

Ethereal dump"
GET 
/cgi-bin/mmb2c/admin/flex_select.html?mv_data_table=area&ui_meta_specific=&ui_page_title=&ui_page_title=&ui_meta_specific=&ui_limit_fields=&ui_show_fields=code%0D%0Aname%0D%0Awhich_page%0D%0Aurl%0D%0Asearch%0D%0Apage%0D%0Aselector&ui_return_to=admin%2Fflex_select&ui_return_to=mv_data_table%3Darea&ui_return_to=ui_sequence_edit%3D1&mv_action=back&item_id=10&item_id=20&mv_click=Edit+checked+records+in+sequence 
HTTP/1.1
Host: xxx.yyyy.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) 
Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2
Accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, 
text/html;q=0.9, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif;q=0.2, 
text/plain;q=0.8, text/css, */*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en, pdf;q=0.50
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: MV_SESSION_ID=wAcS7HSE:yyyy.com; RoxenUserID=0xe
Referer: 
http://xxx.yyyy.com/cgi-bin/mmb2c/admin/flex_select?mv_session_id=wAcS7HSE&mv_pc=495&mv_data_table=area

HTTP/1.0 404
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 363
Server: Roxen Challenger/1.3.122

Undefined catalog: 
mv_data_table=area&ui_meta_specific=&ui_page_title=&ui_page_title=&ui_meta_specific=&ui_limit_fields=&ui_show_fields=code%0D%0Aname%0D%0Awhich_page%0D%0Aurl%0D%0Asearch%0D%0Apage%0D%0Aselector&ui_return_to=admin%2Fflex_select&ui_return_to=mv_data_table%3Darea&ui_return_to=ui_sequence_edit%3D1&mv_action=back&item_id=10&item_id=20&mv_click=Edit

I have examined the Server.pm at 182 and the error in a result of the state:
            my $g = $Global::Selector{$CGI::script_name}
failing.  The 'WHY' and the 'FIX' I cannot isolate because from the HTTP 
traffic, I see nothing wrong but looking at the Server.pm code, the 
error message should have a catalog name following the colon and it does 
not which would imply a problem with the CGI module, no?

Regards,

Barry

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Barry Treahy, Jr  *  Midwest Microwave  *  Vice President & CIO 

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