[daisy] Error on Browsing for Images

[Bruno Dumon]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:39 -0800, Jill Giboney wrote:
> We are experiencing a problem on one of our Daisy installations. All of a
> sudden, none of the users can browse for images to upload.
> 
> This occurs after five to ten users have been editing for a few hours. All
> of a sudden, the users are no longer able to upload images. They get the
> message below at the point where they choose "upload a new image from your
> local disk":
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Problem in creating the Request
> 
> Message: null
> 
> Description: No details available.
> 
> Sender: org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet
> 
> Source: Cocoon Servlet
> 
> cause
> 
> Malformed stream: The system cannot find the path specified
> 
> request-uri
> 
> /TG-CustomerSchedules/new/edit/1e514c6f4235763a74752f780a2727767300867f/part
> -ImageData
> 
> Apache Cocoon 2.1.11-dev
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm wondering if this could be related to automatic removal/cleanup of
the temporary directory. When uploading images, these are first put in a
temporary directory (inside the sytem temporary directory). On some
systems there are scripts which automatically clean out the temporary
directory after some time, causing this exact problem.

Starting from Daisy 2.0, the temp directory is by default located in the
wikidata directory, rather than in the system temp directory, to avoid
cleanup problem. So the location of the temp directory is then:

<wikidata directory>/tmp

Maybe you can check that this directory is really used, this is the case
if you see a directory named "Jetty__8888__" inside it.

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