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alecken
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February 15, 2011
Question

I got blamed for what I did not do!

  • February 15, 2011
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I only made simple changes after a successfull test, The changes I made were on static texts only but then user reported an error and I got blamed for it because I was the last person to touch the codes.

The error do not point me to anything that I can understand and start making correction. Can someone help me, what this is all about?

Error message:

The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.

Null pointers are another name for undefined values.

that's it nothing else. No code or anything that point me to where should I make a correction.

Please help if any of you out there has ever faced this issue.

Thanks

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
February 17, 2011

Over and above wehat everyone else has said, this is a prime reason for using source control (and release control), rather than just making random and uncontrolled edits to a production server.

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Adam

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Dan_Bracuk
Inspiring
February 15, 2011

Are you sure you typed that first sentence correctly?  If so, you did things in the wrong order.

If you actually did test your work after you did it, look into what's different between your test environment and the production one.

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
February 15, 2011

As Owain said, you need to look into the logs or configure the settings so you have more information about these errors.

But I will go ahead and speculate one possible (if relatively unlikely) way that changing some static text could cause this error.

If the text you edited is contained inside of a <cfoutput>....</cfoutput> block on a CFML page.  And the text you entered contains any words with hash|pounds|# symbols around them.  ColdFusion is going to try an interpt text like that as a variable.  And presumably there are no variables existing for these random words and thus the error you listed.

But really finding the full error data will most likely lead directly to the real problem.

Owainnorth
Owainnorth
Inspiring
February 15, 2011

Why don't you try being more vague?

You'll need to try turning on ColdFusion debugging which will at least let you know what page and line the error is on. Or look in the CF error.log for more information.

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