Metacat

Jeanette has reported an issue where the KNB data registry is hanging when a small file is being uploaded (see attached screenshots).

In the JavaScript console, she saw a Bad Gateway error. With a quick web search on this, it looks like the Bad Gateway response is usually thrown when Apache calls a sub processor like the perl interpreter and doesn't get a response back (timeout), or some other non-response error. We need to track down what is happening in the Perl code to induce this. Here's the Slack thread:

Feeling the "hanging submission page" pain right now. What do I do? Abandon? Wait and hope? 
According to my local file these files should only be 831KB so I'm not sure why it thinks they are so huge

chris [1:15 PM] 
@jeanette which server is that?
KNB?

jeanette [1:16 PM] 
yeah, production

chris [1:16 PM] 
ok

jeanette [1:16 PM] 
I bailed out after seeing the timeout error

chris [1:16 PM] 
that’s an odd one. i’ll look

jeanette [1:16 PM] 
but still not the easiest thing to figure out from a user perspective

chris [1:16 PM] 
totally

jeanette [1:17 PM] 
I think this has happened to me before, and I think it is triggered by 
writing metadata ->
add a file -> 
accidentally submit before adding all files -> 
go back and edit record -> 
add more files -> 
submit again -> 
page hangs forever
I also think I have heard of a similar workflow causing an error for ADC users