I don't know where to start looking to resolve this, so trying here first. If here's somewhere more appropriate, feel free to point me in that direction!

I love the features of CKEditor, but it would appear to be causing problems when saving a new story on my site. It would appear to cause the system to spawn many new HTTPD processes and eventually to hang. It does actually create the new node, as once the server has been rebooted it is there, at the top of the list as one would expect, but this behaviour really makes it unusable for me.

As a side issue, and I realise that this bit is not a problem wit CKEditor, but if there is a way of configuring its behaviour it would help me - when I finish a sentence, I put two spaces after the full stop. CKEditor turns the second of these into an HTML &nbsp, which is correct behaviour. But the Drupal Atom module appears to be unable to handle this properly and so feeds fail to validate if they have an undecalred &nbsp entity in them. Is there any way I could tell CKEditor, for the time being at least until Atom is fixed, not to insert the &nbsp?

The first of these though is by far the most important issue as it is currently unuseable with my site.

I am running the drupal module 6.x-1.0 on a Drupal 6.14 install on Debian 5, Apache 2.2.9.10 - any advice would be appreciated.

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jockox3’s picture

jockox3 commented

If it gives any clues, the same behaviour does not appear to happen when posting a comment using the CKEDitor.

escoles’s picture

escoles commented

just to clarify: have you tried disabling the module to see if the behavior persists?

wwalc’s picture

wwalc commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I believe this issue has nothing to do with CKEditor module. Please try disabling all contributed modules apart from CKEditor and start enabling them back one by one to see what's reall causing this problem.

If apache hangs then it looks like there is some infinite loop in the code (probably...).

Setting as won't fix because I really doubt that this issue is caused by CKEditor module.

Regarding problems with Atom module - make sure you have reported it, otherwise it might be never fixed.

To get rid of nbsp I guess the best way would be to write your own simple module that filter this out.