The Makefile is kind of obsolete, I switched to CMake. So the Makefiel is mostly there as backup. To compile elog, do

elog$ mkdir build; cd build
elog/build$ cmake ..
elod/build$ make install

that should also find your openssl library, since CMake is more clever.

I personally have not yet switched to MacOS Catalina, since I have too many 32-bit programs running there and wait until all of these get updated. Only then I will be able to test elog under Catalina.

Stefan

When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.

For example, configure a logbook with:
Message Width = 76
Message Height = 20

Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines.  The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly.  The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.

We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox.  Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly.

As an example, I created this same entry in the demo logbook using Safari.  As you can see there, the message is wrapped at the width that I set the text entry box.

https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Linux+Demo/9

> When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.
> 
> For example, configure a logbook with:
> Message Width = 76
> Message Height = 20
> 
> Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines.  The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly.  The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.
> 
> We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox.  Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly.

Hello,

I'm using ELOG with Ubuntu 19. When I create or edit an entry and I start writing, it hangs for few seconds, resumes, and all over again intermittently.

How can I fix it?

Best

Sara

OS: CentOS 7 x86_64 up2date with RPM 3.14 x86_64

• Connexion to ELOG
• open one logbook and click search,
• input "test" and click "Search" : BOOM
• Firefox can not connect anymore on ELOG.

The crash is met with several words now ("test", "post", "4.5", are the one i know). We use a mirror server and the problem appears also on it .

NB: the hangs appears on EL6 x86_64 server with customized RPM built by myself. I retry with 3.14 SRPMS avalaible from ELOG site with same results. Idem with last GIT version. So i tested on EL7 with official RPM x86_64 (not suitable for EL6 as it needs GLIBC_2.14) before to open this ticket.

Terminal traces on server side follows.

[root@localhost /]# /usr/local/sbin/elogd -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg 2>&1
elogd 3.1.4 built Sep 26 2018, 13:14:57 revision 966e3dd
File "/var/run/elogd.pid" exists, using "/var/run/elogd.pid.8080" instead.
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
CKeditor detected
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
ImageMagick NOT detected. Image scaling will not work.
Indexing logbooks ... done
Server listening on port 8080 ...
*** Error in `/usr/local/sbin/elogd': free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0000000001c59310 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x81679)[0x7f45a898f679]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x45e756]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4824b0]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4a69b1]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4a7023]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4a954a]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4ac9d3]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4035a6]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7f45a8930505]
/usr/local/sbin/elogd[0x4044d3]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-004e3000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 52822202                           /usr/local/sbin/elogd
006e2000-006e3000 r--p 000e2000 fd:00 52822202                           /usr/local/sbin/elogd
006e3000-007c4000 rw-p 000e3000 fd:00 52822202                           /usr/local/sbin/elogd
007c4000-0173a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
01a66000-01c8f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7f459bdea000-7f459bdff000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 84                         /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.8.5-20150702.so.1
7f459bdff000-7f459bffe000 ---p 00015000 fd:00 84                         /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.8.5-20150702.so.1
7f459bffe000-7f459bfff000 r--p 00014000 fd:00 84                         /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.8.5-20150702.so.1
7f459bfff000-7f459c000000 rw-p 00015000 fd:00 84                         /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.8.5-20150702.so.1
7f459c000000-7f459c021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f459c021000-7f45a0000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a010c000-7f45a0114000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 1598592                    /usr/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2
7f45a0114000-7f45a0313000 ---p 00008000 fd:00 1598592                    /usr/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2
7f45a0313000-7f45a0314000 r--p 00007000 fd:00 1598592                    /usr/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2
7f45a0314000-7f45a0315000 rw-p 00008000 fd:00 1598592                    /usr/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2
7f45a0315000-7f45a0321000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 22487                      /usr/lib64/libnss_files-2.17.so
7f45a0321000-7f45a0520000 ---p 0000c000 fd:00 22487                      /usr/lib64/libnss_files-2.17.so
7f45a0520000-7f45a0521000 r--p 0000b000 fd:00 22487                      /usr/lib64/libnss_files-2.17.so
7f45a0521000-7f45a0522000 rw-p 0000c000 fd:00 22487                      /usr/lib64/libnss_files-2.17.so
7f45a0522000-7f45a0528000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a0528000-7f45a6a52000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 50336362                   /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
7f45a6a52000-7f45a6ab2000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 22554                      /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.0
7f45a6ab2000-7f45a6cb2000 ---p 00060000 fd:00 22554                      /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.0
7f45a6cb2000-7f45a6cb3000 r--p 00060000 fd:00 22554                      /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.0
7f45a6cb3000-7f45a6cb4000 rw-p 00061000 fd:00 22554                      /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.0
7f45a6cb4000-7f45a6cd8000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 40935                      /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
7f45a6cd8000-7f45a6ed7000 ---p 00024000 fd:00 40935                      /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
7f45a6ed7000-7f45a6ed8000 r--p 00023000 fd:00 40935                      /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
7f45a6ed8000-7f45a6ed9000 rw-p 00024000 fd:00 40935                      /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
7f45a6ed9000-7f45a6edb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a6edb000-7f45a6ef2000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 22495                      /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.17.so
7f45a6ef2000-7f45a70f1000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 22495                      /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.17.so
7f45a70f1000-7f45a70f2000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 22495                      /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.17.so
7f45a70f2000-7f45a70f3000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 22495                      /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.17.so
7f45a70f3000-7f45a70f7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a70f7000-7f45a710d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 22497                      /usr/lib64/libresolv-2.17.so
7f45a710d000-7f45a730c000 ---p 00016000 fd:00 22497                      /usr/lib64/libresolv-2.17.so
7f45a730c000-7f45a730d000 r--p 00015000 fd:00 22497                      /usr/lib64/libresolv-2.17.so
7f45a730d000-7f45a730e000 rw-p 00016000 fd:00 22497                      /usr/lib64/libresolv-2.17.so
7f45a730e000-7f45a7310000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a7310000-7f45a7313000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 62649                      /usr/lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.5
7f45a7313000-7f45a7512000 ---p 00003000 fd:00 62649                      /usr/lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.5
7f45a7512000-7f45a7513000 r--p 00002000 fd:00 62649                      /usr/lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.5
7f45a7513000-7f45a7514000 rw-p 00003000 fd:00 62649                      /usr/lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.5
7f45a7514000-7f45a7522000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 321861                     /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1
7f45a7522000-7f45a7722000 ---p 0000e000 fd:00 321861                     /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1
7f45a7722000-7f45a7723000 r--p 0000e000 fd:00 321861                     /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1
7f45a7723000-7f45a7724000 rw-p 0000f000 fd:00 321861                     /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1
7f45a7724000-7f45a7739000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 40937                      /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.7
7f45a7739000-7f45a7938000 ---p 00015000 fd:00 40937                      /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.7
7f45a7938000-7f45a7939000 r--p 00014000 fd:00 40937                      /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.7
7f45a7939000-7f45a793a000 rw-p 00015000 fd:00 40937                      /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.7
7f45a793a000-7f45a793c000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 22475                      /usr/lib64/libdl-2.17.so
7f45a793c000-7f45a7b3c000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 22475                      /usr/lib64/libdl-2.17.so
7f45a7b3c000-7f45a7b3d000 r--p 00002000 fd:00 22475                      /usr/lib64/libdl-2.17.so
7f45a7b3d000-7f45a7b3e000 rw-p 00003000 fd:00 22475                      /usr/lib64/libdl-2.17.so
7f45a7b3e000-7f45a7d74000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 303887                     /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
7f45a7d74000-7f45a7f74000 ---p 00236000 fd:00 303887                     /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
7f45a7f74000-7f45a7f90000 r--p 00236000 fd:00 303887                     /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
7f45a7f90000-7f45a7f9d000 rw-p 00252000 fd:00 303887                     /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
7f45a7f9d000-7f45a7fa1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f45a7fa1000-7f45a7fd2000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 321856                     /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1

Abandon [sorry, French locale]

Logbook contains 445 entries (shown in ELOG window), 384 files and 4 folders (2017 to 2020).

Thanks for help as i start to be annoying to unuse search function.

Do you see the same problem on this server here?

If not, then it must be related to your specific configuration. You have to teach me how to reporduce the error in order to fix it. Best would be a minimal elogd.cfg which causes the error.

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

The problem seems to be specific with our logbooks. Maybe one of the file is corrupted or bad string encoding ?! But how to find the source of the problem ?

Any way to improve debug log ? (using debug level = 9 + logfile)

Also, do you have a procedure to debug ELOG with debuginfo package installed to have more informations in trace ?

.

Laurent

The only way for me is to reproduce it. Could be corrupted data file, or config file. Try with a new logbook with the same configuration, then add logbook files one by one until it happens.

Stefan