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Internal Server Error when trying to load interactive field extractor

snortymcsnort
New Member

When I click on extract fields from the drop down box on a search result I keep getting this error messsage

500 Internal Server Error AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'toPrimitive' I am getting these error messages in the web_service.log 2010-03-16 16:43:57,797 ERROR customlogmanager:22 - [16/Mar/2010:16:43:57] HTTP Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 606, in respond cherrypy.response.body = self.handler() File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in call return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/routes.py", line 307, in default return route.target(self, **kw)

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rquinn628
New Member

Hi,

I'm getting the same issue as well where before I was able to use IFX to extract fields. I'm running 4.1.1, build 78281

This is a demo version of splunk that I downloaded 2 weeks ago(yes, I'm a newbie).

I did a bit of googling and found what seems to be a similar issue with a fix. I'm not certain that this particular fix is relevant to this situation or not. It had to do with requesting a list versus a string.

The problem, and answer, could be found here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread185328.html

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Lowell
Super Champion

Can you post that into your question. It' will be much easier to read. (Click the "edit" link under your post.)

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snortymcsnort
New Member

OK I am getting these error messages
2010-03-16 16:43:57,797 ERROR customlogmanager:22 - [16/Mar/2010:16:43:57] HTTP Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/cprequest.py", line 606, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in __call
_
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/routes.py", line 307, in default
return route.target(self, **kw)

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Lowell
Super Champion

Sorry. I told you the wrong logfile. Try this search instead: index=_internal source=*web_service.log toPrimitive OR Traceback

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snortymcsnort
New Member

I am getting nothing in that search. I also could not find toPrimitive using grep on the python.log

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Lowell
Super Champion

Can you get more info about this and add it to your post? Do a search like this and report back the full traceback message: index=_internal source=*python.log toPrimitive

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