Admin Console Stopped Working (2.0)

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kjb
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Joined: 07/27/2010
Points: 2

Hi Folks,

Everything was pretty much ok and I was seeing what Kaltura could do then after a week the admin part has a stopped working. I get the Admin Console login box, enter details, sumbit and i get directed to:

http://HOST/admin_console/index.php/user/login

With a blank page. Scouring round the logs the request doesn't seem to even hit the apache access or error logs and using firebug there is not a http response either.

Anyone any idea what might have got wrong?

K

Joined: 07/27/2010
Points: 1

I am in the same position, except I never had a working Admin Console.

Joined: 01/05/2009
Points: 1697

Hi,

Can you guys share a public link and / or more details on your deployment system?

Joined: 02/08/2010
Points: 8

The same thing has happened to me. On Friday I was able to log into the admin console, but today (Tuesday) I just get a blank page. Absolutely nothing has happened to the server in that time, there are no other users and no uploads occurred.

We're running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit), LAMPP 1.7.1, Kaltura CE 2.0.2 and have followed all the setup steps in Setting Prerequisites on CentOS 5.5 w/XAMPP. All was well (aside from the SMTP problem that I have posted about here http://www.kaltura.org/smtp-server).

The public URL is

http://sendivoge.brighton.ac.uk

which you may or may not be able to see depending on our current firewall rules. Going there presents you with the normal "Welcome to Kaltura Video Platform - Community Edition v2.0.2" page, but the console links (after it asks you to log in) just go to a blank page.

Cameron,
xxx.

Joined: 02/08/2010
Points: 8

Any thoughts on this? This is now my second complete install of the system. It works fine for a while and then I just get black pages after logging into the administration console. Restarting services or indeed the server makes no difference.

Cameron,
xxx.

Joined: 08/16/2010
Points: 20

try deleting all your browser cookies for that host, that was what helped me in that case.

Joined: 02/08/2010
Points: 8

A sound idea, unfortunately even using a browser from a machine that has never logged onto that server before I get the same problem (with cookies cleared just to be sure).

Cameron,
xxx.

Joined: 09/04/2010
Points: 5

I have the same problem - login user = blank page

Joined: 02/08/2010
Points: 8

For some reason the logrotate script was not touching

kaltura_api_v3.log

and it was growing until it hit the 2GB limit and then the Kaltura Administration Console and KMC both stopped working. Then for some reason it started and

kaltura_api_v3.log-yyyymmdd.gz

started appearing. The only thing I did to the install was fix a problem I was having with the logrotate script not being able to see

/var/log/hobbit

which I corrected by making a symbolic link from

/var/log/xymon

Don't see why it would help, unless the logrotate was bombing out, but now I have rotated kaltura_api_v3.log files and the consoles stay working.

Cameron,
xxx.

Joined: 08/16/2010
Points: 4

We had some issues but fixed them. Our issue must have stemmed from 1 of 2 things...Either our partner settings were incorrect>>they can be edited in the admin console, should be set to unlimited. The other thing is we had a server cluster go down. And although our other servers recovered with us only having to repair a SQL DB on our moodle server, our kaltura server would not let us log in to the KMC.

Luckily we had a snapshot of the Kaltura server so we just restored it. I would advise anyone out there using the CE to backup their server once they have the functionality (because this is always a best practice!)

Joined: 01/05/2009
Points: 1697

Guys, please try the fix on http://www.kaltura.org/setting-error-reporting-estrict-may-cause-apiv3-c...
please update on your status, if it helped or not.

Thx