357728 - Magically disappearing Wiki page at OpenWrt

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jeff D. Hanson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7

When accessed directly, the page loads normally.  When accessed from the main page (http://wiki.openwrt.org - OpenWrt WhiteRussian Configuration) it's blank.  When loaded directly again, it's still blank.  The only way to load it again is to clear the cache and restart the browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration and observe a correctly loading page
2.  Go to http://wiki.openwrt.org (link at top of page or direct URL entry)
3.  Scroll down to "1.1.2. WhiteRussian RC5 (Stable) Configuration" and click any link to the URL in #1.

Actual Results:  
Blank page thereafter

Expected Results:  
Same rendering as initial load.

To eliminate the problem, clear the cache (Tools > Clear Private Data) and restart the browser.  Also reproduced on the following systems:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061023 Minefield/3.0a1 (safe mode with a new profile)
It did crash initially when I first attempted to clear the cache on the original system.

Comment 1

[Jeff D. Hanson]

Attachment: OpenWrt pages archive

Comment 2

[Jeff D. Hanson]

Attachment: IGNORE - attached to wrong bug

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Ok, on first load, I can see the page with http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration
On reload, I get a blank page, and when I do a shift->reload, I get to see the page again.
I can see this behavior even in Mozilla1.7.

Moving it to Core->Networking

Comment 4

[Jackie Liu]

I get this behavior with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061121 Minefield/3.0a1" also.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in Mozilla, I see this also happening with IE7 on reload occasionally.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I use the openwrt wiki frequently and this works for me

Comment 7

[Jeff D. Hanson]

I'm glad this bug has been resolved in Mozilla.  I'm also glad that the OpenWrt wiki hadn't changed in the last 6 years so it could still be tested against.  I didn't test it myself as I switched to Ubuntu and Firefox a few years ago.