BuddyPress

Hrrm, is anyone else getting:

“There was a problem posting your update, please try again.” in a red box every time they try to post any sort of update in BuddyPress 1.2?

I’m running:
Wordpress 2.9.1
BuddyPress 1.2

…I’m not even sure where to begin troubleshooting.

My problem exactly, however today is the first time I have actually done something that displayed this error.

Why is this HAPPENING!?!?!?!? I am running on Win2k8 w/ IIS7 and FastCGI installed. I really want to get this resolved! Is this the location to post a support request? Is this a bug? What? Help please.

I just discovered this as well. Windows 2003 server. Buddypress 1.2 Wordpress 2.9.1

I have the same issue BP1.2 WordPres 2.9.2

Hrrm… I’ve found this old ticket:

http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1647

…and the advice is to “upgrade your db” whatever that vague phrase is meant to mean. I installed a fresh copy of both Wordpress Mu and BuddyPress from the ground up and still get the issue.

I opened my own ticket a few days ago:

http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1999

…if anyone has anything to add to it. I just can’t even begin to trace what the problem is.

did you try a fresh database as well?

i remember an issue while testing the trunk awhile back – turned out to be a change in the date format. You may have to dig deeper and see what information is being passed to bp_activity_add (or at least echo it out)

I’ve started with a fresh install of Wordpress Mu (new database and all) and still get this issue.

Thanks for the tip about bp_activity_add. I’ll start looking there.

I’m also getting a lot of:

“Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.”

…messages in orange boxes. Although I’m sure it should be listing some activity…

…ah-ha…

This is being caused by MySQL running in strict mode… …shutting off strict mode stops the issue (could be a temporary work-around for some people).

…does BuddyPress support strict mode?

If anything, there must be some bug in there which is trying to add improperly formatted data to the database…

How do you turn off strict mode?

To turn of strict mode in MySQL you’ll have to locate your MySQL instance’s .ini file and look for a line like:

sql-mode=STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,…

And remove “STRICT_TRANS_TABLES” and restart the instance.

Unfortunately the scope of this setting is for the entire MySQL server instance and can’t be done on a schema-by-schema basis…

I’d only do this as a workaround, though. My guess is that BuddyPress should be supporting strict mode, and there’s just a bug in there…

Ok, thank you. Yes, turning that off worked fine. Now, has the bug been reported?

Nevermind, I see that zooney took care of us 5 days ago. I guess (s)he said that in a previous post. Thank you.

I’ve reported it in this ticket:

http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1999

I’ve made a few updates to the ticket after I figured out it was being caused by strict mode… …hopefully someone closer to BuddyPress can sort this out, but I s’pose I’ll keep digging through the code to see if I can find the actual bug…