Archive for the tag ‘bug’

  • trac: upgrading trac with easy_install fails with “unexpected HTML page found”

    Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 by stevie

    When installing or upgrading trac on a Debian-like linux machine you might want to use the easy approach of the python setuptools. Trac can be installed or upgraded by using:
    easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/branches/0.11-stable
    Since the release of Subversion 1.5 the version of easy_install included in the Debian repository ran into a compatibility issue.

  • trac: Solving sqlite-issues when upgrading from Debian etch to lenny

    Monday, February 9th, 2009 by stevie

    On my dev-server I had to upgrade to the newer version of debian lenny (which will be released as stable version this week).
    The upgrade went fine but after it was finished trac (0.11.2.1 ) refused to start, throwing the error message
    DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database

  • TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

    Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by stevie

    I recently found a document, stating it contains the most dangerous programming errors. The layout of this article is very … let’s say technical so I was about to close this one because it’s not very much fun to read it. But the first few lines took me in and I read the whole thing. [...]