Dealing with aftermath of upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2 : "no value sent for required parameter 'Object'" error message

Ruben · December 30, 2014, 9:38am

Hi,

I’m in the process of upgrading an RT4 installation to the latest release (and after that: to do some performance upgrading).

If I upgrade RT4.0.22 to RT4.2.9 the installation starts suffering from multiple errors. The result of the upgrade is “clickable” and most of RT seems to be working. I’m hoping that some pointers from people that are more savvy to RT4’s internals will help me resolve the issues I am facing.

The upgrade has been performed on a cloned VM (ubuntu 12). There - unfortunately - were/are no scary error messages encountered during the upgrade.

When we try to verify the upgrade it quickly becomes apparent that :

Clicking on “Display” ( the generated URL being : Login where XXX is the tickets ID) for an individual ticket results in this entry in the logfile:

[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at/ //opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at/ //opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:40 2014] [error]: no value sent for required parameter ‘Object’
Stack:
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:98]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:99]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:62]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:63]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/autohandler:66]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:681]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:369]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/autohandler:53]
(/opt/rt4/lib/RT/Interface/Web/Handler.pm:208)

I think it might have something to do with this comment:

MakeClicky handlers added via a callback are now passed an “object” key in the parameter hash instead of “ticket”. The object may be any RT::Record subclass.

on UPGRADING-4.2 - RT 4.2.17 Documentation - Best Practical , but I’m really kind of in the dark here.

The steps performed (on the clone of my current RT4 setup) were:

wget https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
tar -xvf rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
cd rt-4.2.9

service apache2 stop

make testdeps
make fixdeps

altering Makefile to fit our user-setup:

RTGROUP = rt
WEB_USER = www-data
WEB_GROUP = rt

make upgrade
make upgrade-database

rm -fr /opt/rt4/var/mason_data/obj
sed -i ‘s/LogToScreen/LogToSTDERR/g’ /opt/rt4/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm
chown www-data:rt /opt/rt4/var/data/gpg

service apache2 start

I’m apologizing for asking the obvious if I really should have been heeding instructions that are available more closely (please feel free to point that out very blatantly :P).

Any insights / thoughts on what might be going wrong here would be greatly appreciated (if any more information is required: i’m happy to provide it)!

Kind regards,

Ruben

Alex_Peters · December 30, 2014, 1:38pm

When you say “no scary error messages,” does that mean that you still
encountered some messages?

The file /opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary is a custom
override, most definitely copied from an earlier RT version. You will need
to identify what that override achieves differently to the stock version,
and either copy those changes into a copy of RT v4.2.9’s equivalent file,
write those changes into a callback instead, or just delete the file
altogether if it doesn’t seem to bring any benefit.

Altering the Makefile directly should never be needed; you should be able
to pass options to the configure script instead.On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 8:47 pm Ruben mail@osfux.nl wrote:

Hi,

I’m in the process of upgrading an RT4 installation to the latest release (and after that: to do some performance upgrading).

If I upgrade RT4.0.22 to RT4.2.9 the installation starts suffering from multiple errors. The result of the upgrade is “clickable” and most of RT seems to be working. I’m hoping that some pointers from people that are more savvy to RT4’s internals will help me resolve the issues I am facing.

The upgrade has been performed on a cloned VM (ubuntu 12). There - unfortunately - were/are no scary error messages encountered during the upgrade.

When we try to verify the upgrade it quickly becomes apparent that :

Clicking on “Display” ( the generated URL being : Login where XXX is the tickets ID) for an individual ticket results in this entry in the logfile:

[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:40 2014] [error]: no value sent for required parameter ‘Object’
Stack:
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:98]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:99]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:62]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:63]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/autohandler:66]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:681]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:369]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/autohandler:53]
(/opt/rt4/lib/RT/Interface/Web/Handler.pm:208)

I think it might have something to do with this comment:

MakeClicky handlers added via a callback are now passed an “object” key in the parameter hash instead of “ticket”. The object may be any RT::Record subclass.

on UPGRADING-4.2 - RT 4.2.17 Documentation - Best Practical , but I’m really kind of in the dark here.

The steps performed (on the clone of my current RT4 setup) were:

===

wget https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
tar -xvf rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
cd rt-4.2.9

service apache2 stop

make testdeps
make fixdeps

altering Makefile to fit our user-setup:

RTGROUP = rt
WEB_USER = www-data
WEB_GROUP = rt

make upgrade
make upgrade-database

rm -fr /opt/rt4/var/mason_data/obj
sed -i ‘s/LogToScreen/LogToSTDERR/g’ /opt/rt4/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm
chown www-data:rt /opt/rt4/var/data/gpg

service apache2 start

====

I’m apologizing for asking the obvious if I really should have been heeding instructions that are available more closely (please feel free to point that out very blatantly :P).

Any insights / thoughts on what might be going wrong here would be greatly appreciated (if any more information is required: i’m happy to provide it)!

Kind regards,

Ruben

Ruben · December 31, 2014, 10:16am

Hi Alex,

Thank you very much for your reply.

The only message I can distinguish from all of the output (that might be
of some interest) is :

[26871] [Wed Dec 31 10:07:03 2014] [warning]: The
RejectOnMissingPrivateKey, RejectOnBadData and AllowEncryptDataInDB
GnuPG options are now properties of the generic Crypt configuration. You
should set them there instead.
(/home/ruben/rt-4.2.9/sbin/…/lib/RT/Config.pm:765)

After some asking around it appears that the RT installation has -
indeed - been upgraded before, all the way back from the rt3 branch.

Deleting the file proves troublesome; other errors are introduced then.
I’m in the progress of comparing a vanilla 4.2.9 install with the result
of the upgrade that is currently failing and hope to achieve some
progress that way.

Ill relay my findings to this thread (for references sake).

Kind regards,

RubenOn 30/12/14 14:38, Alex Peters wrote:

When you say “no scary error messages,” does that mean that you still
encountered some messages?

The file /opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary is a custom
override, most definitely copied from an earlier RT version. You will need
to identify what that override achieves differently to the stock version,
and either copy those changes into a copy of RT v4.2.9’s equivalent file,
write those changes into a callback instead, or just delete the file
altogether if it doesn’t seem to bring any benefit.

Altering the Makefile directly should never be needed; you should be able
to pass options to the configure script instead.

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 8:47 pm Ruben mail@osfux.nl wrote:

Hi,

I’m in the process of upgrading an RT4 installation to the latest release (and after that: to do some performance upgrading).

If I upgrade RT4.0.22 to RT4.2.9 the installation starts suffering from multiple errors. The result of the upgrade is “clickable” and most of RT seems to be working. I’m hoping that some pointers from people that are more savvy to RT4’s internals will help me resolve the issues I am facing.

The upgrade has been performed on a cloned VM (ubuntu 12). There - unfortunately - were/are no scary error messages encountered during the upgrade.

When we try to verify the upgrade it quickly becomes apparent that :

Clicking on “Display” ( the generated URL being : Login where XXX is the tickets ID) for an individual ticket results in this entry in the logfile:

[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:39 2014] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1884. (/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1883)
[2334] [Wed Dec 24 15:05:40 2014] [error]: no value sent for required parameter ‘Object’
Stack:
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:98]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowSummary:99]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:62]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:56]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/Display.html:63]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/Ticket/autohandler:66]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:681]
[/opt/rt4/sbin/…/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:369]
[/opt/rt4/share/html/autohandler:53]
(/opt/rt4/lib/RT/Interface/Web/Handler.pm:208)

I think it might have something to do with this comment:

MakeClicky handlers added via a callback are now passed an “object” key in the parameter hash instead of “ticket”. The object may be any RT::Record subclass.

on UPGRADING-4.2 - RT 4.2.17 Documentation - Best Practical , but I’m really kind of in the dark here.

The steps performed (on the clone of my current RT4 setup) were:

===

wget https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
tar -xvf rt-4.2.9.tar.gz
cd rt-4.2.9

service apache2 stop

make testdeps
make fixdeps

altering Makefile to fit our user-setup:

RTGROUP = rt
WEB_USER = www-data
WEB_GROUP = rt

make upgrade
make upgrade-database

rm -fr /opt/rt4/var/mason_data/obj
sed -i ‘s/LogToScreen/LogToSTDERR/g’ /opt/rt4/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm
chown www-data:rt /opt/rt4/var/data/gpg

service apache2 start

====

I’m apologizing for asking the obvious if I really should have been heeding instructions that are available more closely (please feel free to point that out very blatantly :P).

Any insights / thoughts on what might be going wrong here would be greatly appreciated (if any more information is required: i’m happy to provide it)!

Kind regards,

Ruben