Browser error when adding content to a panel

When you get an error like this, you should check your apache/php or watchdog log and see if there's an actual crash there.

I am having a similar error and it is the result of the ajax module (assumption based on this error NOT occurring prior to ajax install). While mine is throwing no errors, when I try to change content, in IE, all theme formating goes out the window. In FF, it slaps everything on top of everything else, but holds *some* theme iformating. (see attached images)

This has only happened since installing AJAX mod and I have removed it completely but the problem persists. I can't check the apache logs as this is on a (semi) production site hosted elsewhere.

I am getting TONS of errors in log that I *think* pertain to this, one listed below:

Location: http://www.futuresite.villacollectionsdesign.com/admin/build/pages/nojs/...

Referrer: http://www.futuresite.villacollectionsdesign.com/admin/build/pages/edit/...

Message: Parsed JavaScript file misc/collapse.js.

While AJAX mod was not crutial to the site...this module is, and ANY help would be appreciated greatly!
Thanks in advance :)

So far, I have tried truncating all cache tables in DB as well as panels_display and panels_pane with no luck...
edit to add:

deleted the following from system table with no effect:

sites/all/modules/ajax/ajax.module
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/captcha/ajax_captch...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/comment/ajax_commen.
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/disable_redirect/aj
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/fckeditor/ajax_fcke...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/loggintoboggan/ajax...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/quicktabs/ajax_quic...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/thickbox/ajax_thick...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/tinymce/ajax_tinymc...
sites/all/modules/ajax/ajax_ui/ajax_ui.module
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/webform/ajax_webfor...
sites/all/modules/ajax/plugins/wysiwyg/ajax_wysiwy...

#2: Er, that says there is an error in a file but it doesn't really say what the javascript error is. That isn't enough information to even guess what might be wrong.

My apologies... from the javascript error log in firefox:

http://www.futuresite.villacollectionsdesign.com/sites/all/modules/ctool...

Line: 149

#page-manager-edit .ctools-collapsible-container {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  *float: left; /* LTR */
  width: 100%;
}

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'vertical-align'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.futuresite.villacollectionsdesign.com/sites/all/modules/panel...

Line: 331

.panels-categories-description {
  padding: 0 1em;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: center;
}

-Seems to be a recurring issue: http://drupal.org/node/595442
-Looks like this is possibly an issue with Chaos tool suite *not* Panels
-Only effects users unfortunate enough to have installed the ajax module (perhaps a warning is in order?)

Edit to add:
Enabling javascript in my FF browser resolved the issue on the FF panels content edit page.
Javascript is enabled in IE and it still throws me to http://www.futuresite.villacollectionsdesign.com/admin/build/pages/nojs/... where i suspace /nojs/operation/ is the problem.

Well. Panels pane-adding system does not work with javascript disabled (Panels does not degrade gracefully) so that error does not tell me very much. :/

Unfortunately, without being able to actually see this error, none of the information I'm getting is giving me any ideas what is going on.

I'll try installing the AJAX module on a test site and see.

Hi@all,

I have a similar error. The error pops up as soon as I use a context in a Panel and then try to add some content to a region. After deleting the context-settings the error goes away and I can add new content to a region.

I think that my issue is similar to this because the error-message is very similar.

I set the priority tho normal because I can't use the context-functionality of the panels module.

Thanks,

dendie

I just use garland theme

Sorry hadn't checked back in a while. I was using a slightly customized Garland theme for both admin and user... I have set up a clean install with no AJAX and will report back on my findings later today after I install CT and Pans

Ok so fresh install with no AJAX and same problem occurs. As soon as I installed Panels and Chaos I get the dreaded 'no theme' panel screen. It occurs when custom theme is enabled for users/admin as well as when stock Garland is set for users and admin so it seems (at least for me) unrelated to theme.

Edit to add: if I force my way through creation of a panel page or panel node w/o theming / formating, the node created only loads w/o theme / formating as well whether panel page or node. Leaving that page returns formating and theme.

The ONLY watchdog error following Pan/Chaos install was a Nodewords error:

Type nodewords
Date Friday, January 15, 2010 - 05:51
User admin
Location http://www.thenewvilla.villacollectionsdesign.com/node/add/panel/flexible
Referrer http://www.thenewvilla.villacollectionsdesign.com/node/add/panel/flexible
Message User admin changed the meta tags for type 5 (86).
Severity notice
Hostname 72.240.190.41
Operations

however, I uninstalled nodewords but the problem didn't change and doesn't appear to be related. Again, AJAX is not installed, nor is jquery update or jquery UI (those were my previous suspects)

Lastly, it appears to be working now in Firefox browser; however NOT in IE8 (didn't create a full page/node in FF but will tomorrow and will update) java script IS however working in the IE8 browser as the lightbox images work correctly and they are java based if I am not mistaken so I don't *think* it's a simple matter of a java permissions problem in IE8

If I attempt to make a new View such as a block or a page, it freaks out and gives me the "An error occurred at /admin/build/views/ajax/add-display/videos" error. Click the warning and refresh the page and voila - you have a new block amidst all the errors.

I too am having this problem when creating new views now, just as you are.

Edit to add: Interestingly, as with panels, the Views loss of format and (presumably) failure to load java script does not occur in Firefox.

What is the complete list of contrib modules you are using?

CCK, Chaos, Image Cache, Location (only Location core functionality enabled atm), Nodequeue (installed after this issue), 404 Blocks, Advanced help, Diggthis, Global Redirect, Lightbox2, Menu Per Role. Mollom. Page Title, Path redirect, Pathauto, Persistent Login, Read More link, Scheduler, Search 404, SEO Checklist, Service links, Token, Trackback, Panels, Ubercart, Views, Yahoo YUI (installed after issue).

Ok this odd and somewhat unbelievable, but I installed Dynamic display block module and it fixed it...
oh, and in order to install DD Block I had to install JQuery Update module....

absolutely baffeled but pleased :)

Hmmm you may be onto something there... one thing I changed for the DD Block config was I had to rename my theme from 'villa-custom-01122009' to 'VillaCustom2010'. This was a big issue with DD Block because template preprocess functions do not recognize dashes or spaces in theme names in .php calls. Aside from just changing the theme name on line #2 of the .info file, I also had to change the name of the actual info file to match.

Originally I had just changed the name inside the .info to VillaCustom2010, but left the .info file titled villa-custom-01122009.info and many functions would not work correctly, after changing the .info to VillaCustom2010.info to match the change I made on line #2 of the .info file, everything worked correctly.

A word of warning, the change broke my theme as I was using a colorized/customized version of Garland and most of the graphics and css, etc is saved in /sites/default/files/color/villa-custom-01122009-d19de82a and references the old villa-custom-01122009.info that no longer existed, so I had to rebuild it.

On a side note, in retrospect, I need to figure out a way to customize a Garland theme for color and css and have it save to sites/all/themes/mycustom themename rather than in /sites/default/files/color/referencetocustomtheme, but that is another issue for a different forum :)

Hope my input can potentially help with your problem!

Oh now THAT is interesting! Hmm. Can you tell if this is recreatable just by making basically a blank theme in sites/default? I'll have to try that.

Ok you are definitely onto something here; as I said I had installed DD Block and my problem had resolved itself... well I hadn't been into panels since repairing my theme as described in #23 and now it is broke again. Also of some interest, while working with the DD Block, I had deactivated the YUI Editor module. I turned it back on today and once I do, it makes my panels home page lose it's formating. If I turn it off, the homepage is fine... so bizzare and ambiguous.

I see you made a custom theme in default like I did and got the same results. A clean install with the theme made in 'all' fixed my issue. I find it highly likely that somewhere deep in the jungle of Drupal code is a function that assumes custom themes do not and will not exist in 'default' and as a result breaks. I don't know the ins and outs like some do but this seems logical to me.

While that may be the case, I am not sure how to customize garland's colors etc w/o allowing it to create in /sites/default/files/color/VillaCustom2010-d19de82a.

I tried putting all my custom graphics and css in the VillaCustom2010 custom theme I have in sites/all/themes but it doesn't apply itself correctly. I have highly customized the garland theme's graphics (see: http://www.thenewvilla.villacollectionsdesign.com ) and I can't get it to work unless I choose my custom theme in admin/themes, customize the colors, then go and replace it's graphics and css in sites/default/files/color/VillaCustom2010-xxxxxxx

We are definitely narrowing the problem down to "custom theme problem" though.

You would think, but for some reason, Garland tends to push things off into a sub folder in defaults with your theme name and then a numberstring attached...I am planning to play around with it tonight.

Ok, this may be old but I was going back through this issue looking for anything I can latch onto to try and reproduce this issue.

Also I get this:
"Type page not found
Date Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 5:44pm
Location http://mysite.com/admin/build/views/edit/mjm_theme.css
Message admin/build/views/edit/mjm_theme.css
Severity warning"

Note that the path on this thinks your custom theme is in views. That suggests to me that whatever is adding that file name is doing so incorrectly as a relative URL rather than a full URL. That could be a bug in your theme. It's possible that messages like that break the Views AJAX calls when they get sent as output and the javascript on the client side cannot interpret them.

I tried putting all my custom graphics and css in the VillaCustom2010 custom theme I have in sites/all/themes but it doesn't apply itself correctly. I have highly customized the garland theme's graphics

That's because Garland uses color module. In order to create temporary files they *must* be in your 'files' directory. The webserver should not have write access to the actual themes directory, so it cannot create temporary files there. If you want to customize the graphics yourself, you should probably turn OFF the color module support and modify the default style.css to point to your images. But that's really not a good issue for this queue. That said, if improper color module support is causing errors which in turn cause the AJAX to fail, there's not a lot I can do about that.

I tried creating a blank theme in sites/default/themes and played around a bit with Page Manager and Panels. I ran into no AJAX errors, so I believe this to be a red herring.

There's one other thing you can do. Use Firefox and install Firebug. Turn on firebug for the site, and go to the console. Click on the add content item. In the console you should see something like this:

POST http://panels3.dev.logrus.com/panels/ajax/add-pane/panel_context%3Apage-membership%3Apage_membership_panel_context/center/view-panes 200 OK 792ms

If you click on it, there should be 4 tabs. One of them will be 'Response'. That should be the tab that opens up. That will tell you exactly what the server sent back. When it's working it should look like this:
[ { "command": "modal_display", "title": "Add content to Center", "output":

(That's just the first bit; it will be very long).

I am particularly interested in seeing this information when you get one of the failures.

I tried out the ajax module, and with it enabled I also did not get this behavior.

If you can edit your php.ini file, go look for the setting 'display_errors'. If it is set to On, try setting it to Off (you'll need to restart the server).

One other thing to check. The -dev version of CTools has some better error reporting during ajax operations. UPgrading to CTools and Panels -dev versions might get more information.

Using Panels 6.x-3.0

And also getting this problem. I'm however, getting a 404 error when I view the Firebug console.

It seems that some of the PHP content I'm trying to include is not making it past the URL encode. Perhaps that is the issue with some of these other errors?

Update: It seems that the execute() function trying to get Views data, is the culprit. If I only have:

$view->execute();

It causes the page to return a 404? I've tried this with in a few other node types with input filter set to php, and it dies reliably with a 404 every time.

Looks like I need to update and look into some other bug.

3.0 is 2 releases out of date. Upgrade before posting bug reports.

Hi, I have the same problem.

Someone have the solution since last post?

thanks

yes, I've tried to switch theme without any success

Hi, I have the same problem with clear install of latest Drupal + minimum number of modules
It just doesn't works if I add context for panel. If context is removed - it works smoothly.

Apache error log shows 503 error message for each ajax call with such error, but I can't find anything useful to investigate and resolve this.

Does anyone managed to investigate this?

503 error? That's usually mod_security -- and the latest CTools should have fixed the issues with mod_security. If there is a 503 error, then the error log should show a little more detail about why.

A 503 error is a PHP segmentation fault or in other words PHP crashed. We're using PHP 5.2.13
Errors occurs on both "CTools", the stable one and the latest development version available.

Is there any chance to investigate/fix this issue?

error occurs only if I create "Context" to add node creation form to my panel.
If context is removed then everything works smoothly.

I have a very likely the same JavaScript box with error message like on screenshot in the initial post of this thread.

Found also the same error report here:
http://drupal.org/node/696402

Finally managed to bypass that error manage using the patch proposed here http://drupal.org/node/696402, see post #14
Hope that will help someone.

Subscribing. This has started happening when adding content to any panel variant. Error message is along the lines of

An error occurred at /panels/ajax/add-pane/panel_context%3Anode_view%3A/top.

Error Description: 404: Not Found

Errors started occurring following an abortive upgrade from 6.3-3.3 to 6.x-3.x-dev, which replaced all of the existing variants in the panels editing area with the word 'variant' while losing all other information. Replacing with the old code led to this error popping up every time I attempt to add anything new. I'm going to remove the module completely and reinstall now, see if that helps.

OK, I may have hit errors caused by upgrading Panels without upgrading CTools in tandem. Sadly, drush didn't pick up or relay the error message that popped up when i tried it again through the front end. Problems solved now by putting latest dev of Panels and CTools in.

The last few posters seem to have managed to get past this. Let's mark it fixed on that basies because the issue is so long and confused it's difficult to follow.