Am experiencing random, occasional (about once every couple of months) corruption of block settings after modifying something on the block admin page. Because it's so rare, it's not really possible to provide much supporting info. In ther most recent case, the probleem arose when user tried to change the title of a block.

Typically, blocks change location and weight, but are not usually disabled, and in particular the block visibility settings disappear, whether just to specify front page only or with some PHP visibility code.

It's Drupal 4.7.2 running on PHP 4.3.11 on a Raq at a hosting service. The MySQL database is 4.0.24 running on a separate server (wonder if this relates to the problem, because I have never had this probem locally when doing the development on a single machine with MySQL on same machine)

Has anyone else experienced this and got any fix info?
Also, is there a ready way to save all the current block settings and restore them, separately from an entire system backup/restore?

Thanks

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RobRoy’s picture

RobRoy commented
Component: blog.module » block.module
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Try upgrading to the latest 4.7.4 release as there were some fixes to block admin. Users can't change titles of most blocks in 4.7.x. Which block were people using when this error occurred?

It sounds like this is may be a duplicate issue of http://drupal.org/node/102477. Please continue there or set to active if you think this is a separate issue.

hardieas’s picture

hardieas commented

Error seems different (but may be related) as block disabling is not ocurring, but changes in position (i.e. left, right, center), weight, and block visibility code.
Gave one particular site admin user the permission to administer blocks. Mostly it's fine.
While I was developing the site and doing a *lot* of block admin, didn't have this problem, which leads me to think it might be to do with having the MySQL server on a different host. Does the block module make any read-after-write type checks when saving? Or, put another way, is there something it doesn't do that the other modules do do, because this problem hasn't (so far) affected any other areas of site operation.
Will attempt upgrade when I can. Assume it is not safe to upgrade just the block module???

hardieas’s picture

hardieas commented

Has happened again and, this time, most blocks got disabled.
I now believe that it is the same problem as described in the other node and may indeed relate to having more than one person with block admin permissions logged in at the same time.
Awaiting news if updated version of Block Module solves problem.