With green and red vote widget, only getting spinning wheel... have to reload page..

I can not confirm this. Can you try this on a new drupal install? (aka test vote up/down alone and then test with panels)

I'm having a very similar trouble with votes on comments at http://beat.com.au

i'm using vote up/down version 6.2 though, not the 6.3 branch.

i see the ajax spinner, and i have to refresh the page to see any change in the vote.

im pretty sure i remember this working a few months ago, and then it seems to have broken at some point since..

maybe there's a conflict with some recent update to a common module?

anyway, i did a quick firebug of the POST request, but i'm not familiar with how ctools implements ajax, so i'm hoping somebody can shed some light into what is (or isn't) happening here..

HEADERS:

Date Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:14:18 GMT
Server Apache
X-Powered-By PHP/5.2.8
Expires Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:14:18 GMT
Cache-Control public
Content-Length 978
Keep-Alive timeout=5, max=100
Connection Keep-Alive
Content-Type text/javascript; charset=utf-8
Request Headersview source
Host www.beat.com.au
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept application/json, text/javascript, */*
Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive 115
Connection keep-alive
Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
Referer http://www.beat.com.au/content/2011/01/11/black-swan/film-natalie-portma...
Content-Length 64
Cookie XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

POST

Parametersapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
ctools_ajax 1
js 1
page_id page-d1d061d021673b51dbbdfb2d7ac60336
Source
js=1&ctools_ajax=1&page_id=page-d1d061d021673b51dbbdfb2d7ac60336

RESPONSE

[ { "command": "settings", "argument": { "basePath": "/", "admin_menu": { "margin_top": 1 }, "externalpdf": 1, "googleanalytics": { "trackOutgoing": 1, "trackMailto": 1, "trackDownload": 1, "trackDownloadExtensions": "7z|aac|arc|arj|asf|asx|avi|bin|csv|doc|exe|flv|gif|gz|gzip|hqx|jar|jpe?g|js|mp(2|3|4|e?g)|mov(ie)?|msi|msp|pdf|phps|png|ppt|qtm?|ra(m|r)?|sea|sit|tar|tgz|torrent|txt|wav|wma|wmv|wpd|xls|xml|z|zip" }, "heartbeat_language": "en" } }, { "command": "replace", "selector": "#widget-comment-18726", "data": "\n\x3cdiv class=\"vud-widget vud-widget-beatvotes\" id=\"widget-comment-18726\"\x3e\n \n \n \x3cdiv class=\"beatvotes-votes-display\"\x3e1\x3c/div\x3e\n \n \n \x3ca href=\"/vote/comment/18726/1/vote/beatvotes/31c5f580d564912c44995dc2e5bf7b4c\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"vud-link-up ctools-use-ajax\"\x3e\n \x3cdiv class=\"up-active\" title=\"Vote up!\"\x3e \x3c/div\x3e\n \x3c/a\x3e\n \n \n\x3c/div\x3e\n\n" } ]

Same problem here with 6.x-2.4 on D6.19. Seems a duplicate ticket with this one: http://drupal.org/node/1075650
In my case it does not work with up and down widget on teasers and nodes. Website freezes completely with Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Sorry I can note reproduce the problem mentioned with 6.x-2.4, nor with 6.x-3.x

I am trying vote_up_down alone, if someone can reproduce this on an isolated environment(vote_updown alone with not other modules) please re-open.

This sounds like an interoperability problem with other module, but first I need to know if someone can reproduce the bug isolated.

Forgot to post my solution. Here is: I emptied the Ctools cache tables and it works again.

i'm suspicious that this error was being caused by a conflict with some setting in Boost. I'm going to have another crack at this sometime soon.