Error: Illegal or empty (text)

[scott at ruralnetwork.net]

You can see if your perl was built with threading support with this command: 

perl -V| grep usethreads 

If it was, you should see some output like: 

usethreads=define 

 --
Scott Langley
scott at ruralnetwork.net
Systems Administrator
Rural Network Services 


Diane Xu writes: 

> The Perl version I'm using is 5.8.0 (sorry, I mistakenly said it was
> 5.6.1 in my previous email).  It comes with OpenBSD 3.3, so I don't know
> whether it is compiled with threading support enabled.   
> 
> Postgresql 7.3.2
> Apache     1.3.29 
> 
> -diane 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott at ruralnetwork.net [mailto:scott at ruralnetwork.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:04 AM
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> Subject: [freeside] Re: Error: Illegal or empty (text) 
> 
> I'm encountering the same issues - intermittently - with the Postgresql
> 7.4, 
> Apache 1.3.29, and Perl 5.8.3 that come with the installion of Mandrkake
> 10, 
> while trying various versions of the CGI module - and with Apache::ASP.  
> 
> I'd be curious to know which versions of Postgresql and Perl you are
> running 
>  - and whether or not your Perl is compiled with threading support
> enabled.  
> I'm going to try re-compiling my Perl with threading support disabled
> and 
> see if that solves the problem.  
> 
>  --
> Scott Langley
> scott at ruralnetwork.net
> Systems Administrator
> Rural Network Services  
> 
> Diane Xu writes:  
> 
>> I believe I did fill out all the necessary fields.  For example, the
>> error showed up when I tried to create a new agent type.  With exactly
>> the same input, I was failed on the first time but succeeded on the
>> second.  And this happened several times already.  I tried to go down
> to
>> the code, and I found cgi->param('error') flag was up whenever this
>> happened.    
>> 
>> diane  
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeremy Davis [mailto:jeremy at manageisp.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:15 AM
>> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>> Subject: RE: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)  
>> 
>> Nope you are running the right version of CGI.pm.  Maybe you are not
>> filling
>> out a field that needs to be filled in.  
>> 
>> Jeremy  
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Diane Xu [mailto:diane.xu at atssolutions.net]
>>> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:30 PM
>>> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>> Subject: RE: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)  
>>>
>>>
>>> I checked my CGI.pm version, it is 2.8.1.  Is it too old?  And I also
>>> found some other CGI.pm files inside of freeside, do I need to take
>> care
>>> of them too?  Thanks a lot.  
>>>
>>> -diane  
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeremy Davis [mailto:jeremy at manageisp.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:50 PM
>>> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>> Subject: RE: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)  
>>>
>>> I know this is limited, but this all I have.  There is a perl module
>>> called
>>> perl CGI.  The file is CGI.pm.  When I was installing something via
>> CPAN
>>> that had a dependency of CGI.pm, it was upgrade to a version > 3 .  I
>>> downgraded it back to 2.89 and it worked again.  I tracked the
> problem
>>> to a
>>> CGI.pm method, so I just took a shot in the dark.  I am a python and
>> php
>>> coder myself so my knowledge of perl is limited to 50 line utility
>>> scripts.  
>>>
>>> Jeremy  
>>>
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Diane Xu [mailto:diane.xu at atssolutions.net]
>>> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:41 PM
>>> > To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>> > Subject: RE: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for your reply.  Can you tell me in more detail?  How to
>> "back
>>> > down" cgi.pm?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > -diane
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Jeremy Davis [mailto:jeremy at manageisp.com]
>>> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:02 AM
>>> > To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>> > Subject: RE: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)
>>> >
>>> > I had to back down the CGI.pm module when I had the same problem.
>>> >
>>> > Jeremy
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > -----Original Message-----
>>> > > From: Kristian Hoffmann [mailto:khoff at pc-intouch.com]
>>> > > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:18 AM
>>> > > To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>> > > Subject: Re: [freeside] Error: Illegal or empty (text)
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Check your services definitions (View/Edit Services).  It sounds
>>> like
>>> > you
>>> > > have a blank service name.
>>> > >
>>> > > -Kristian
>>> > >
>>> > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Diane Xu wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Hi there,
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > When I added new services, sometimes (not always) I got the
>>> > following
>>> > > > error message:
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Error:  Illegal or empty (text) (error code
>> illegal_or_empty_text)
>>> > svc
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I did check the input fields, they were valid input.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I got the same message when I tried to add other things
>> (packages,
>>> > > > agents, agent types, new customers, etc.)  too.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Can anybody help me on this?  Thanks a lot.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > (I'm using OpenBSD 3.3, apache 1.3.xx, and freeside 1.4.1)
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > -diane
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> >  
>>>
>>>
>> 
>