Hmm, weird.



Well, thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.  Although I am kind 
of curious why 8m isn't quite enough memory, but that's okay.  I upped 
it to 16m, and hopefully that is enough.

You just need to up PHP's memory_limit setting.

This just happened while I was typing in the last message.



I pressed Home again, and it came up, with the following message in error_log:



[client 139.169.132.64] PHP Warning:  Unknown(): A session is active. 
You cannot

  change the session module's ini settings at this time. in Unknown on 
line 0, re

ferer: 
http://circe/horde/services/portal/edit.php?Horde=d29533113a9c563592f9010

2650ae50e&col=0&row=4&action=expandRight



Then I logged out, then logged back in, and the portal page is empty, 
like the preferences didn't get saved at all.



So, I'm not sure what to make of that.



Thanks for the help, and I'm sorry I'm bothering you guys.

I found an error in the httpd error_log.



Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12 bytes)

[client 139.169.132.64] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 
8388608 bytes e

xhausted (tried to allocate 12 bytes) in 
/var/www/html/horde/lib/Horde/NLS/coord

inates.php on line 3111, referer: 
http://circe/horde/services/portal/edit.php?Ho

rde=d29533113a9c563592f90102650ae50e&col=0&row=4&action=expandRight

Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12 bytes)



Any idea why this is happening?  This seems to be what is causing the 
inability to change anything.  I just completely reinstalled, and a 
couple of modules (klutz, agora, ansel, along with the normal 
turba,chora, etc).  I was editing the layout, in this order:



google search, address book

calendar: past events, calendar: monthly events

calendar: month view, random fortune

sunrise/sunset, moon phases

comics (expanded)



Then pressing home doesn't bring up anything, just stays on the layout 
page, and the error happens in the error_log.



Just trying to narrow this problem down.



Might be a different problem then with horde, but I've never 
encountered it with any other software (I use openwebmail also, and it 
works fine), so I'm not sure...

That should give an unserialize error then.

You are probably overflowing the pref_value field in your backend, 
thus chopping off the serialized data. Jan, maybe try it by 
artificially truncating the pref_value you have for the portal 
preference?

Hmm, okay, well, it has happened on both systems I installed it on, 
and I still can't  update the portal.



I will try again, by completely removing the installation and dropping 
the database, and reinstalling completely, and see if it fixes the 
problem.

I can't reproduce this. I added the blocks you mentioned, and still am 
able to add more blocks and display the portal.

Start with a blank horde page.  Select layout, add a bunch of blocks 
two columns wide.  After about, say, 6 rows, it will no longer 
display.  I had this:



google news, address book

calendar events, calendar monthly summary

calendar month view, random fortune

sunrise/sunset, moon phases

current time, current trouble tickets

news content slashdot, news content security focus (empty)



Now, you can't select layout anymore.



I managed to add another one (comics) after those, before layout was 
unavailable, and now the horde page itself won't show up anymore, and 
I can't change it because layout doesn't work.  I may have to try to 
remove it in preferences for a temporary fix (reversion).