Preview Error - Broken Pipe - Any Known Cause

Lynchy

I have a user reporting he receives the broken pipe error while trying to preview a page in TeamSite our .tpls have not chnaged recently and others are able to preview without incident... I have killed the perl process and deleted the manifest files and then preview works for a short time and then breaks again.... Anyone else seen this type of behavior... And can it be caused by something happening on the client machine???

Also does anyone have an explanation regarding the zz_tst_username_****_lock files? I understand the manifest file but I have not been able to find any documentation on the _lock files...

As always thanks in advance for your repsonse...

Later

Migrateduser

How about the perl scripts getting called & running in the bkground. If something is invoked specifically for this user. I think the manifest file gets created during the preview & gets locked during the TPL execution. As the perl process is not able to finish successfully, the preview files are locked & can not be overwritten. I think the user will be able to run TPL’s, till the setting for “preview_history_limit” in iw.cfg is reached. Once all of the preview files are locked (with one perl process for each), it then results in error message as it is unable to overwrite the oldest one. Looks like for some reason particular portion of your perl/tpl code is not able to come out of the execution & get stuck until process is ended externally & manifest is deleted.

Check your perl/tpl script for,
- any incorrect declarations of variables
- infinite looping issue

I really doubt if this is related to user workstation. May be you would like to,
- try running block by block of code
- check using iwpt_compile for more debugging information.
- replace tpl code with some thing simple, “Hello World” kind of tpl
- unlikely, but take a quick look at the user, group & WA permissions.

HTH
Anand