Random Images not working for anonymous visitors

It's not clear to me what the actual bug is and which steps you took to reproduce the bug. Can you elaborate on that, please?

I'm experiencing a similar problem - Random Image block works for admin users, not for anonymous users - but the JS/CCC compression settings have no effect. I was able to get the block working for anonymous users once by "Disable Developer Modules" in the administrative menu. Switching developer modules back on stopped random images for anonymous users, so I thought I duplicated the issue. But then switching "Dev Modules" off another time did not re-enable random images for anonymous users. And since then, I've never been able to make the Random Image Block work for anonymous users.

Even closing down and/or changing browsers will not generate a random image. Anonymous users see the same image over and over again.

When changing the "Enable/Disable Developer Modules" setting, a green window indicates I'm enabling and disabling "imagecache_ui" and "views_ui." But that's surprising as the installed modules are not dev modules:

ImageCache 6.x-2.0-beta10
Views 6.x-2.12

I have a second site that has Views installed, but not ImageCache, and the Random Image Block works fine for anonymous users.

Any thoughts about what's going on?

http://www.classicjets.org/ - Random Image Block does not work for anonymous users
http://www.rcb.org/ - Random Image Block does work for anonymous users

Should have renamed the issue when I posted the previous issue report

Trial and Error finally uncovered a solution - Random images are now appearing for anonymous visitors as well. The settings that seem to work for me on the Site Configuration | Performance page:

Caching Mode: Normal
Page Compression: Enabled
Block Cache: Disabled
Optimize CSS files: Disabled
Optimize JavaScript JS files: Disabled

I don't believe I've solved the root cause of the problem - It makes no sense that the "Random Image" block works for admin visitors but not for anonymous visitors unless Block Cache is turned off. But at least the website is working again.

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them!

It turns out my Feb 8 "fix" didn't fix anything - I was purging the cache to get the images to change. The "Random Image" block works for authorized visitors but not for anonymous visitors.

Does anyone have a site with that block that I could visit?

If you have page caching on, then anon visitors will see the same identical page over and over until the cache is refreshed.

I have the same problem, works for authorized users but I only want it on the landing page opposite the login link; so I need it to work for unauthorized users.

Anybody?

Caching Mode: Disabled
Page Compression: Disabled
Block Cache: Disabled
Optimize CSS files: Disabled
Optimize JavaScript JS files: Disabled

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> Views 6.x-3.0

IIRC Views 3 has built-in caching of some sort. Might that be the cause of the problem?

Might be, although I'm not getting any image at all, if it were caching wouldn't I keep getting the same image?
Anyhoo how would I go about checking if it is Views caching?

(Sorry not much of a programmer and new to Drupal)

Can anyone actually try debugging this?

- is the block being rendered or loaded from cache?
- is the cache failing?
- if the block is being rendered, does its query return something
- etc etc.

I don't know how to debug or find out any of that but if someone else can that'd be great...

For the record; by allowing permission for anon users to 'Access Content' the pics appear, also allowing them access to the whole site which, in my case anyway, is unacceptable. (Not sure if that was obvious)

> by allowing permission for anon users to 'Access Content' the pics appear

If users don't have the 'access content' permission then they can't access content. That includes image nodes.

So can I allow access to just image nodes while leaving the rest behind the login wall?

I have allowed 'view original images' for anon users. This does nothing. Can I insulate all other nodes somehow?

You need to look at one of the various node access modules.

@ joachim: That worked for me - thanks for your repeated help.
For others with this problem here's the breakdown.
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Installed and Enabled module 'Content Access'
http://drupal.org/project/content_access

Enabled 'Access Content' for Anonymous Users in the regular Drupal Users Permissions.
I then allowed Anonymous Users to view images in
Administer > Content Management > Content Types > Image > Edit
Click the tab 'Access Control'
Enable 'View Any Content' for 'Anonymous User'.

Then go and disable the same option for all other content types.

Thanks all who helped, and the rest of you enjoy!