The front page won't display at all.

October 20, 2000 12:22 PM

The front page won't display at all. I've reloaded several time within the last five minutes, and am still getting the same ColdFusion error. Here it is:

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
An error occurred while evaluating the expression:
#newlinks.recordcount# IS "0"

Error near line 320, column 29.

Error resolving parameter NEWLINKS.RECORDCOUNT

ColdFusion was unable to determine the value of the parameter. This problem is very likely due to the fact that either:

1.You have misspelled the parameter name, or
2.You have not specified a QUERY attribute for a CFOUTPUT, CFMAIL, or CFTABLE tag.

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFIF), occupying document position (320:1) to (320:36).

Date/Time: 10/20/00 12:18:16
Browser: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686)

posted by waxpancake to Bugs at 12:22 PM (2 comments total)

There's some bug in Netscape's cookie handling, or my cookie setting that makes a single record in your metafilter cookie die once every so often. If you delete your metafilter cookies, and re-log in, it'll be ok.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:23 PM on October 20, 2000

I deleted my cookies, came back to metafilter, logged on, clicked on the "jump directly" link and got this:

Error Occurred While Processing Request

Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:

LastWeek = #DateAdd ('D', -#cookie.link_days#, Now())#

Error near line 37, column 7.


Cannot convert to number.

Please, check the ColdFusion manual for the allowed conversions between data types

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFSET), occupying document position (37:1) to (37:62).

Date/Time: 11/08/00 17:59:26
Browser: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; U)
Remote Address: 130.164.55.114
HTTP Referer: http://www.metafilter.com/login/Login_action.cfm

posted by veruca at 6:00 PM on November 8, 2000