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Re: Fwd: Gitweb error

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 27, 2012, 21:39 UTC
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rajesh boyapati <boyapatisrajesh@gmail.com> writes:
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> We integrated git-web to our gerrit Code-review.
> I installed gitweb using the command:
> $ sudo apt-get install gitweb
> Then I configured gitweb to our gerrit using the command:
> $ git config --file $SITE_PATH/etc/gerrit.config gitweb.cgi /usr/lib/
> cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> Now the gitweb is added to gerrit.config and in gerrit config file, it
> looks like
> [gitweb]
>         cgi = /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> Then, restarted gerrit server.
This combination of gitweb (which version?) and Gerrit can be hard to
debug, unfortunately.
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> When I go to one of the projects in gerrit through gitweb and when I
> click "summary", I am getting the below error.
> If I click other tabs(log, shortlog, commit, tree,etc) after clicking
> "summary", I am getting following error in error-log.
> If I click other tabs(log, shortlog, commit, tree,etc) before clicking
> "summary", everything works fine.
> 
> Error:
> =================================================================
> [2012-01-25 18:50:32,334] ERROR
> com.google.gerrit.httpd.gitweb.GitWebServlet : CGI: [Wed Jan 25
> 18:50:32 2012] gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $head in string
> eq at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi line 4720.

Could you show this line and about 3 lines of context in your gitweb.cgi?

> [2012-01-25 18:50:35,658] ERROR
> com.google.gerrit.httpd.gitweb.GitWebServlet : CGI: [Wed Jan 25
> 18:50:35 2012] gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $commit_id in
> open at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi line 2817.
Same here.
> [2012-01-25 18:50:35,660] ERROR
> com.google.gerrit.httpd.gitweb.GitWebServlet : CGI: fatal: bad
> revision ''

It looks like gitweb incorrectly gets empty revision parameter... strange.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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  1. rajesh boyapatiJan 27, 2012
  2. Jakub NarebskiJan 27, 2012
  3. Jakub NarebskiJan 29, 2012
  4. Jakub NarebskiJan 30, 2012
  5. gitweb: Deal with HEAD pointing to unborn branch in "heads" viewJakub Narebski, Feb 3, 2012
  6. Jakub NarebskiFeb 7, 2012
  7. gitweb: Harden parse_commit and parse_commitsJakub Narebski, Feb 8, 2012
  8. Jakub NarebskiFeb 9, 2012
  9. gitweb: Silence stderr in parse_commit*() subroutinesJakub Narebski, Feb 11, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2012
  11. Jakub NarebskiFeb 13, 2012
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