RT 5.0.0 Can't locate object method "ColumnMapClassName" via package "RT::SavedSearch"

[Tom_Wardrop]

Hi all,

After upgrading to RT 5.0.0 from RT 4.4.4 we’re seeing the following error on the home page where the “Saved search” dashboard widget should be:

“An internal RT error has occurred. Your administrator can find more details in RT’s log files.”

The log file shows the following:

[130972] [Tue Aug 11 01:22:02 2020] [error]: Can't locate object method "ColumnMapClassName" via package "RT::SavedSearch" at /opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/CollectionAsTable/Header line 74.

Stack:
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/CollectionAsTable/Header:73]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/CollectionList:143]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/SavedSearches:59]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Widgets/TitleBox:61]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/SavedSearches:67]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/Elements/MyRT:99]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/index.html:78]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/sbin/../lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:710]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/sbin/../lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:389]
  [/opt/production/rt5.0/share/html/autohandler:53
(/opt/production/rt5.0/sbin/../lib/RT/Interface/Web/Handler.pm:209)

Any ideas? I can’t even see which saved search is the problem so don’t know where to begin troubleshooting.

[knation]

How did you get the RT5 source code? It seems you may have RT4 source code there

[Tom_Wardrop]

@knation I pulled the tarball linked to from the Best Practical website. This URL to be precise: https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-5.0.0.tar.gz

Seems to reflect what’s in the github repository: https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/blob/stable/share/html/Elements/CollectionAsTable/Header

[jjohnson]

@Tom_Wardrop

ColumnMapClassName

This happens to me as well - I’ve temporarily disabled the Saved Search portlet for now. Something I am planning to debug at some point soon. This is a fresh RT 5 install from the 5.0.0.tar.gz distributed directly from BP.

[jjohnson]

I have the solution for you.

https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/5.0/fix-saved-search-component.diff

This is directly from a fix branch in BP’s GitHub, so the official fix is likely coming soon, but this does fix the problem for now.

[jjohnson]

https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/5.0/fix-system-saved-searches-in-dashboard.diff may be of interest to apply as well.

[Tom_Wardrop]

Applying those diffs resolved the error, but the rendering is still borked:

[jjohnson]

Ah. You’re right, it looks the same here too, actually. Very ugly.

I just “fixed” it with following tiny patch:

--- share/html/Elements/SavedSearches.old
+++ share/html/Elements/SavedSearches
@@ -57,2 +57,3 @@
%   }
+%   $title =~ s/([\\'])/\\$1/g;
%   $title = $m->interp->apply_escapes($title, 'h');

I found the display was correct in the Dashboards, and noticed this was what they did in “share/html/Dashboards/Elements/ShowDashboards”, so I just copied the (brutally simple) solution over – it seems like an oversight, and someone inadvertently left it out of SavedSearches.

Edit: Be sure to do the usual clearing of the Mason cache and restart the server after applying.

[rabin]

Same error for me,

I was able to apply the 2nd patch (https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/5.0/fix-system-saved-searches-in-dashboard.diff),
but it seems it’s not enough, as I still get the error above.

The link above (https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/5.0/fix-saved-search-component.diff) is not pointing to any diff file, was it merged ?

PS.
My base install is 5.0.0 as well.
clean install and only DB migration.

[GreenJimll]

Did you flush the Mason cache and restart your web server after applying the diff?

[rabin]

Yes, this is what I did

rm -frv /opt/rt5/var/mason_data/obj
rm -frv /opt/rt5/var/nginx/fcgi.storage/*
systemctl restart nginx rt-server

where rt-server service unit will restart the rt-server.fcgi server

[rabin]

I just tested 5.0.1beta1,
and it seems that this issue is now resolved.

[hmoffatt]

I had the same issue @rabin - the patch was not enough. I will try 5.0.1 beta

[Abin]

How to apply those diifs? It’s just a file that i need to overwrite by them?

[rabin]

I’m not sure if you need this diff/patch if you can just update to version 5.0.1

[Abin]

I don’t know if my boss will accept a beta version but i’ll see with him.
Anyway, alt least a found a solution to my problem. Thanks for the support!

[knation]

The 5.0.1 release is out, so you don’t need to install the beta

https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-5.0.1.tar.gz

[Abin]

Working on it! Thanks.