Posted by danryan on Mon, Jan 06, 2025 - 6:13am

I have been working with my new Backdrop site (a freshly upgraded Drupal 7 site) and have been having an issue editing the layouts "Manage Blocks" page

/admin/structure/layouts/manage/default

When I click any "add block" item, I only get a short whirlygig, and no pop-up. The "configure" links work.

I checked Permissions and all seems okay.

Help appreciated!

Dan

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Mon, Jan 06, 2025 - 6:59am by argiepiano

Hi Dan.

Can you check Reports > Recent log messages and see if there are any warnings or errors logged in there?

Also, check the Browser's console right after you click "Add block" to see if there are any Javascript errors reported there.

Also, try try clearing caches, quit your browser and reopen. The link uses Javascript to make an AJAX call to add blocks - sometimes Javascript and AJAX get a bit brittle and clearing caches and browser caches may help. 

Mon, Jan 06, 2025 - 3:31pm by danryan

Hi argiepiano,

I do get the following error message in the logs:

Error: Attempt to modify property "handler" on null in view->init_display() (line 514 of /home4/ceramic2/public_html/cab-bkdrp/core/modules/views/includes/view.inc).

Console checks and browser clearing had no effect.

Thanks!

Mon, Jan 06, 2025 - 6:39pm by argiepiano

Thanks. The error is most likely produced by a faulty view. That error may actually be interfering with adding a block, since views can create blocks.

Check each and every view in your site. You may want to open each view to inspect them and re-save them.  

Tue, Jan 07, 2025 - 4:16am by danryan

I have done as you suggested.

There are three view that I cannot configure or delete (see screenshot)

When I click "disable" on any one of them, I get the following error message:

The requested page "/cab-bkdrp/admin/structure/views/view//disable?token=4IC1FzQXArhevHfryn2sW34wV2dl8g74KhT9591kje8" could not be found.

Thanks!

Tue, Jan 07, 2025 - 5:39am by argiepiano

Hmmm.... those 3 views seem to be provided by a module. You will need to disable modules one by one to see if they go away. You may want to let us know what contrib modules are enabled by going to Reports > Debug information, copying the list and pasting here.

You may also want to go to your files/config_XXX/active folder and find all files that start with views.view.. Find those that look suspicious, or don't follow the pattern views.view.MACHINE_NAME.json or have an illegal machine name. You can simply remove them from that folder. 

Tue, Jan 07, 2025 - 10:26am by danryan

I have checked the files/config_XXX/active folder (nothing amiss) and disabled most modules.

Here is what is left in the debug info:

Backdrop CMS:                   1.29.2
Installation profile:           standard
PHP version:                    8.1.28
Drupal 7 compatibility:         on
Database server:                5.7.23-23
Web server:                     Apache
jQuery version:                 1.12.4
jQuery UI version:              1.14.0
CKEditor 5 version: 42.0.2      Used in formats: Filtered HTML, Full HTML

Themes
======
Default theme:                  Basis (basis) 1.29.2
Admin theme:                    Seven* (seven) 1.29.2
                               *used when editing or creating content

Enabled modules
===============

Core
----
admin_bar                       1.29.2
block                           1.29.2
ckeditor5                       1.29.2
color                           1.29.2
config                          1.29.2
contact                         1.29.2
dashboard                       1.29.2
date                            1.29.2
dblog                           1.29.2
email                           1.29.2
entity                          1.29.2
field                           1.29.2
field_sql_storage               1.29.2
file                            1.29.2
filter                          1.29.2
image                           1.29.2
installer                       1.29.2
language                        1.29.2
layout                          1.29.2
locale                          1.29.2
menu                            1.29.2
node                            1.29.2
options                         1.29.2
path                            1.29.2
syslog                          1.29.2
system                          1.29.2
taxonomy                        1.29.2
text                            1.29.2
update                          1.29.2
user                            1.29.2
views                           1.29.2
views_ui                        1.29.2

Contrib
-------
addressfield                    1.x-1.3.2
antibot                         1.x-1.2.1
captcha                         1.x-1.7.3
card_recipe                     1.x-1.0.1
entity_plus                     1.x-1.0.21
entity_token                    1.x-2.0.4
entity_ui                       1.x-1.0.2
flexslider                      1.x-2.0.1
flexslider_fields               1.x-2.0.1
flexslider_views                1.x-2.0.1
fontyourface                    1.x-2.8.2
fontyourface_ui                 1.x-2.8.2
google_fonts_api                1.x-2.8.2
imce                            1.x-1.0.1
libraries                       1.x-2.2.3
mailsystem                      1.x-3.0.8
masonry_gallery                 1.x-1.0.2
nivo_slider                     1.x-3.0.1
paragraphs                      1.x-1.3.2
rules                           1.x-2.14.2
views_slideshow                 1.x-3.3.1
views_slideshow_cycle           1.x-3.3.1

Tue, Jan 07, 2025 - 10:32am by danryan

Some more hints

I got this message when trying to run updates:

I think taxonomy may have something to do with the problem.

From the log:

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in taxonomy_field_views_data() (line 361 of /home4/ceramic2/public_html/cab-bkdrp/core/modules/taxonomy/views/taxonomy.views.inc).