'Browse source' link randomly broken

[maxime.petazzoni@…]

Sometimes (pretty random, actually), the Browse source link is broken because de < and > characters of the A HREF are the HTML entities &lt and &gt. No idea why they got changed like this. See attached screenshot.

After the screenshot was taken, a reload of the page solved the problem. A few jumps later, the problem reappeared …

[maxime.petazzoni@…]

A screenshot of the bug.

[Christopher Lenz]

The only logical explanation for this behavior is that the requests are handled by server processes running different versions of Trac, which a restart should solve. I can't imagine you haven't restarted the server a couple of times since this problem appeared, but I really can't think of any other possible cause for this.

[sam@…]

Yep, the webserver was restarted many times. Actually, I fully restart Apache2 after each Trac upgrade. What bother me is the random caracteristic.

[vivek@…]

I see this too on occasion. Usually a reload fixes the problem but not always. And I do restart the server after upgrades, too.

I find it curious that it only affects the Browse Source button.

[sam@…]

The bugs comes from old unremoved files in the installation directory. Use the following to upgrade trac :

cd ~/trac
rm -rf build
rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
svn up
python ./setup.py install
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

[Christian Boos]

We all breath better now ;)

[leentje@…]

uh, i get this problem when using webadmin plugin… the admin link shows the same way like the 'browse source' link in the image added here somewhere. i'm running debian, with trac 0.9.6 … but could i have the same problem? if so, how should i fix this?

thanks in advance…