#5038 Elections Archives - 500 errors
Closed: Fixed None Opened 8 years ago by jflory7.

= bug description =
Some of the Elections of prior times in the archives return 500 pages when you try to view them.

= bug analysis =
Potential cause unknown. Was noticed just recently in #fedora-mktg. How long they have been inaccessible is unknown.

= fix recommendation =
Unknown.


A possible clue:

I can not say it for sure, however as I was working with the voting app for the last two election periods, I observed some strange behaviour (unknown errors) when an Election had switched on integration with FAS. The app is trying to do some sort of validation of user names, checking their CLA's or something like this. During the check it typically fails. It also randomly makes the admin interface inaccessible. When the FAS integration is switched off, these kind of strange errors disappears.

Looking at the logs the error is: MemcachedKeyCharacterError: Control characters not allowed

I've merged upstream a change that drops the use of memcached, by just storing locally the names.

Ok a new version of our elections app has been deployed and it looks like it fixed this problem (by dropping the use of memcached from the app) :)

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