Ajax request failed (on start up)

Could you please attach the error output?
You get this by clicking on the white icon in the ajax notification box.
thanks.

Forget it, I have already deleted chive from my server

I've been experiencing a similar bug for ages. This could be the same one, so I guess I'll just post here. The "error output", as you call it, is:

["information_schema","mysql","pf"]

That seems to be a JS array of the names of all databases.

Strange. So you got an "Ajax-Request" failed notification and the only text in the notification area was the array ("information_schema","mysql","pf"]) ?

I suppose yes.

Without observing any activity here, I decided to investigate this bug myself. I found out that it happens because jQuery expects the AJAX response to be XML and fails to parse it as XML. I tried fixing this by adding an appropriate argument to the relevant $.post() call; that is, I changed line 77 in js/sideBar.js to

  }, "text");

Which fixed this particular error. However, those errors keep appearing all around, probably because of similar things in other requests.

I suppose this should be helpful.

Some more investigation completely solved the problem.

In fact, the AJAX request didn't specify what the response should be treated as, so jQuery inferred that from the response's Content-Type: header.

I assume that the Content-Type: header wasn't sent anywhere by the server-side script for that response, so the default one was sent by PHP.

Which, on my server, is application/xhtml+xml.

So, I guess, either the explicit "text" argument should be sent for every request, or an explicit Content-Type: header should be sent for every AJAX response.

Thank you for your investigation, this is an important piece of information :)
The default data-type behaviour of jquery.post is "Intelligent Guess". It is really strange that you get this error and I'm not able to reproduce this issue in any browser.

Do you use firefox or have firefox installed?
Could you please run chive with the firebug-extension enabled and provide the following infos:

 - Does firebug show any javascript errors?

- In Firebug`s "Net" Tab, look for the request which goes to "http://YOUR_SERVER/chive/trunk/schemata" and post the Response-Headers and the Response Tab content. I have attached a screen-shot so that you can see how it looks on my machine.

This is the screenshot which shows the schemata request in firebug.

Excellent work - now everything makes absolute sense.
I'll target this for the 0.4.2 release.

Thank your very much for helping to track this down!

Here's the screenshot. As you can see, on my server the default Content-Type: is application/xhtml+xml.

It can easily be fixed by creating a .htaccess file with php_value default_mimetype "text/html", but it's quite ugly.

You are right, that would be ugly. I'll send the appropriate headers in chive.

The bug is fixed in trunk now. All Json-Responses from chive will now send a json response header.
Please report if you encounter any problems.