An Important Question Setting
Imagine that you have a config patch I.Am.The.Only.One.config with:
<setting name="Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" value="false" />Then for some environments you add
Nope.You.Are.Not.configwith:<setting name="Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" value="true" />You probably wanted it to be:
<setting name="Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" set:value="true" />but you forgot.
To Be
Sitecore can handle a duplicate setting. It will complain on startup:
WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ...but then it will pick one of the two values and it will keep going just fine.
Not To Be
If you now go to
/sitecore/admin/updateinstallationwizard.aspxand try to install an*.updatepackage (any package really, the contents doesn’t matter) you will be very surprised to see that you can’t get past the Install screen. The iframe will behave as if your sitecore site was no longer running and couldn’t be accessed.In your log file you will find:
... WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ... WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ... WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ... WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ... WARN A duplicate setting "Question.ToBeOrNotToBe" has been detected ... ...A lot. I counted some 1500+ lines and then nothing. Void. Application pool got overwhelmed by the question… with all symptoms of a stack overflow.
440534
We were able to reproduce the described behavior and have registered it as a bug. Thank you for reporting the issue. To track the future status of this bug report, please use the reference number 440534
As a workaround, please remove the duplicate setting from the config files.
Found this one a few months ago – took me a few tries to realize what was going on. Oddly enough – sometimes it isn’t overwhelmed immediately if it’s a very small package or your site has recently recycled. Sitecore has made some very TDS-unfriendly changes in V8 unfortunately.
Hi Chris,
I have been using TDS with SC 8 for a while on a project. Can you tell me what changes you are referring to? Maybe we can come up with a solution that helps you out.
Thanks!