[ic] "Bad Counter Magic" (not FreeBSD related!) on 4.9.5

[Jonathan Clark]

> When a customer tries to place an order, they receive the
> following message:
>
> "Sorry, there was an error in processing this form action. Please
> report the
> error or try again later. (Bad counter magic '200302150000 ' in
> /home/invincible/interchange/catalogs/invincible/etc/order.number at
> /home/invincible/interchange/lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm line 2716 )"
>
> I've downgraded to the last release version of Interchange from the night
> build as of Wednesday due to experiencing a couple of issues
> (corrupt order
> entry screen, shows prices as £0.00 on search results (but okay on
> flypage.html) and it trashes the product database when uploading a text
> file, rm -f products.sql and restarting the server) and I've come across
> this now that I've downgraded.
>
> It's been quite happy to accept the above format for order.number
> before and
> there is not a trailing space after the last four digits in the
> file itself.
> Any suggestions how to get it back to it's previously happy self?

You didn't post your order.number. Does it have:

#COUNTER-1.0

on the first line still?

Did you upload it from a windows machine in binary mode (incorrect line
endings)?

Jonathan
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