UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.classic UBB.classic 6 Support Error on answering to a post: Can't find string terminator "!" anywhere before EOF at CachePath...

hi there,

suddenly i do get this error on my ubb 6.5.0 which was running extremly stable for a bunch of years already, rebuilding stats didn't help, either switching cache-mode on and off again:

Can't find string terminator "!" anywhere before EOF at CachePath...

any help appreciated,
thanks,
chris

OPs. It's an UBB Classic, not a threads, maybe you'd like to move this post?

Please help..!
Whilest searching on google in found several other ubb-boards cached with exactly that error-message, so somehow this seems to be an issue which happened a couple of times and seemed to get fixed. so, any help really very appreciated because the problem gets currently worse, more and more threads are affected and damaged, newest postings can't get read and aren't displayed... ;-(

i'm afraid that infogroupee won't help even i did pay for a one-year-support/download-licence whilest waiting for the 'new thing' to get released which wasn't released that time - so i paid for _nothing_ and this might be my last chance contacting them and asking to help.

but you gurus out there for sure had previously seen an issue like that and might help me fixing? pleeeeeeeeeeeease...

thanks, it's really becoming pretty urgent :-(
chris

The error message should provide more information than ""; please paste the entire error. The data after the CachePath should just be file locations so something somewhere is awry. We'll need the full error, including the full path displayed with the message.

gizmo, thanks for your help, this is what we do get as an error message:

An error has occurred:

Can't find string terminator "!" anywhere before EOF at CachePath/search_index/forum28_recentmeta.cgi line 7309.

Please inform the board administration of this error so that they may fix the problem. Thank you!

There should be an option in the CP: "Rebuild forum metadata" try that, if it doesn't work, rename CachePath/search_index/forum28_recentmeta.cgi and then try and rebuild it again (basically what is happening is that the metadata in forum28 is corrupt)

There's a rebuild screen for several things, one is forum data, another is search data - I'd rebuild both.

That's something like what gizzy said Let us know if you need more assistance.

Giz and Allen, thanks a lot - i already tried rebuilding Stat and Search-Files especially for that category/subforum where the error occurs but this didn't help. So, now i'll try to rebuild Stats and Search-Files for everything and hopefully this time it will work ;-)

If it doesn't work, you may try taking my other sugguestion and DELETING (well, renaming) the file

Well, running the rebuilt of the stats file resultet finally in these bunch of error messages:

An error has occurred:

Can't find string terminator "!" anywhere before EOF at /usr/local/www/data-dist/technoforum.de/public_html/ubb/cache-AS88CL86/search_index/forum28_recentmeta.cgi line 7309.

Backtrace: cp.cgi:1015 -> sub main::refreshing

Backtrace: cp_lib.cgi:2036 -> sub main::__ANON__

Backtrace: cp_lib.cgi:1984 -> sub main::refreshwrapper_forumstats

Backtrace: cp_index.cgi:326 -> sub main::rebuild_forum_stats_core

Backtrace: cp_index.cgi:379 -> sub main::create_forum_summary

Backtrace: ubb_lib_2.cgi:258 -> sub main::refresh_recentmeta

Backtrace: ubb_lib_ci.cgi:14 -> sub main::rebuild_recentmeta

Backtrace: ubb_lib_ci.cgi:38 -> sub main::GetForumMetaTopics

Backtrace: ubb_lib_files.cgi:532 -> sub main::RequireVars

Backtrace: ubb_lib.cgi:878 -> sub (eval)

Backtrace: forum28_recentmeta.cgi:0 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::die

Backtrace: Carp.pm:82 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::fatalsToBrowser

Backtrace: Carp.pm:146 -> sub main::StandardHTML2

Backtrace: cp_lib.cgi:131 -> sub main::Tracer

so, which file should get deleted and can the delete of this file damage anything else?

thanks again for taking your time and helping me!
chris

Go into this folder:

/public_html/ubb/cache-AS88CL86/search_index/

delete everything within and then rebuild your search index(es), you should be good then

and for heaven's sake please upgrade to 6.7.3 - you're work won't mean much if someone deletes your forum

Specifically, the file is: /usr/local/www/data-dist/technoforum.de/public_html/ubb/cache-AS88CL86/search_index/forum28_recentmeta.cgi

But I'd recommend purging the entire folder and rebuilding.

And as sugguested, an upgrade is highly advised as it would allow users to remotely execute their code on your server which could do any number of nasty irrecoverable things (to your site or the entire server depending on security).

ops, i will consider to update soon. the workaround helped, thanks a lot!
cheers,
chris