Version:	20869e29ed92aee19fda35a0d8c46b2a0caec358
Date:	2008-06-08 21:30:57
Original User:	anonymous
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When following the tutorial at http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/tip/www/quickstart.wiki, already in the second step (fossil ui <rep>) I can't see anything in any browser.

Here come the server console printouts:

Fossil version no such variable: manifest_version no such variable: manifest_date
Status: 200 OK
Cache-control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 87
<p><font color="red">no such repository: (null)</font></p><div class="content"></div><div class="footer">
Fossil version no such variable: manifest_version no such variable: manifest_date
<hr><p><font color="red"><b>ERROR: no such variable: manifest_date</b></font></p>

DRH replies:
I think this problem has been fixed in more recent versions of fossil. However, I am away from my office and cannot rebuild until this weekend. If you can download the latest code and recompile yourself, it might solve your problem.

On 2008-06-08 05:08:53 UTC anonymous added:
While using mingw compilled Fossil (version 3f706b92a5 from 2008-06-06) on Win XP SP2, server console printout produces similar output. It spawn empty browser window.

c:\soft\bin>fossil new myrep
fossil: unable to open database file

[sqlite table myrep is created anyway]

c:\soft\bin>fossil ui myrep
Listening for HTTP requests on TCP port 8080
Launch webbrowser: start http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Type Ctrl-C to stop the HTTP server
Status: 200 OK
Cache-control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 311

<p><font color="red">repository does not exists or is in an unreadable directory
: (null)</font></p>

Fossil version no such variable: manifest_version no such variable: manifest_dat
e<hr><p><font color="red"><b>ERROR: no such variable: manifest_date</b></font></
p>

On 2008-06-08 15:53:08 UTC drh added:
This problem should now be fixed. Either recompile using the latest source code or else download the latest precompiled binary. Thanks for the bug report. Please let me know if you find any other issues.

On 2008-06-08 21:30:57 UTC anonymous (claiming to be PF) added:
Thank you for prompt fix, your precompiled binary works nicely. (it was little intriguing to get past login page, till I figured out that I can update user table in my repository with login and pw values) Since then it seems to be working fine.

Maybe another issue would be with clone command. It seems not to clone and still complain about being not able to open database.

c:\soft\bin>fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil
fossil: unable to open database file

c:\soft\bin>fossil new myclone.fossil
fossil: unable to open database file

c:\soft\bin>fossil new myclone.fossil
fossil: table blob already exists

c:\soft\bin>fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil
fossil: unable to open database file
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