181316 - "Quantifier follows nothing" from globals.pl line 690 on account creation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Mr. Jan Walter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 

"Quantifier follows nothing before HERE mark in regex m/* << HERE / at 
globals.pl line 690." error message when someone tries to create an account. 
There are about 30 accounts in the system and they run without problems, but 
this one seems to keep failing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log out of current account
2. Go to create new account and enter info
3. Click submit

Actual Results:  
Following text was returned from server (note that the text did not include the 
originally configured admin email).

Content-type: text/html

<H1>Software error:</H1>
<PRE>Quantifier follows nothing before HERE mark in regex m/* &lt;&lt; HERE / 
at globals.pl line 690.
</PRE>
<P>
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (<a 
href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a>), 
giving this error message 
and the time and date of the error.



Expected Results:  
Create the account.

Comment 1

[Mr. Jan Walter]

Additional info:

Restarted mysql and apache, same problems, checked all tables, still same 
problem. I'll keep trying to figure out what's going on on my end since I don't 
think this bug is all that reproducible.

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

What is your emailregexp param set to?

Comment 3

[Mr. Jan Walter]

I have it set to ^[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+$ - that's the default no? Really weird. I 
even reset it, no avail. I am going to diff the pl files with the original 
distro, see if something got mess up in there.

Comment 4

[Mr. Jan Walter]

OK, more info, hopefully useful: 
 
I tried adding the user manually rather than having them sign up and now I get 
the message: 
 
Quantifier follows nothing before HERE mark in regex m/* << HERE / at 
/home/apache/htdocs/bugzilla/editusers.cgi line 478. 
 
Presumably the same regex. Anyone ever heard of =~ expressions in Perl 
failing? It would be that, or some garbage is being returned from the MySQL 
table, but I looked at it, and no problems that I can see. myisamchk and so on 
pass fine. The only anomaly is that I have one user with a '-' behind the @ in 
the email address, but that should not be all that uncommon :-| 
 

Comment 5

[Mr. Jan Walter]

OK. Solved. Sorry about this.

What is was was an invalid group regex i had set up; I forgot the '.' before 
the '*' for one of the global groups here. I don't know why I did not note this 
before, just above the problem line is the sql code grabbing the regexes.

Flames welcome.

Comment 6

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

*** Bug 208986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[timeless]

I consider this a bug.