Yesterday I blogged about two of the same errors. I concentrated at the error at the customer I described in situation two. The SharePoint Portal we made for this customer is a Publishing Portal for Collaboration and we tried to make more sites in this farm, one for every department. By making this publishing sites we used templates which were based on an example site. At every site the same error appeared. Besides the SharePoint test farm this customer also has a developing farm. This developing farm has been installed the same way as the test farm (also with kerberos authentication) and was not touched at all. So we tried something on this farm.
This SharePoint developing farm also has a Site Collection which is setup as a Publishing Portal for Collaboration. In this portal we made an example publishing site. By putting “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” in the URL we were able to make a template of this site. By default you can not make templates of publishing sites but by adding this to the URL you can.
With this template we made another publishing site and after “completing” the following error appeared.
You can see that the site is created (name “testjor”) but an error (in dutch “Fout”) appears. When hovering over the error the box appears.
Translated in English it says: There has been an error during compilation of the navigation for the requested URL /testjor. Exception message: List does not exist. In the selected page there is a list that does not exist. It is possible that this list is removed by another user. Stack-tracing: …… From here you can see the error code.
So we are almost sure that our solutions and backup/restore were not the cause of the previous error. Now we have to find out if this is a common publishing site error.
Do you know more about this error? please let me know.
Tags: error
December 9th, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Hello MarC,
we encoutered the same issue. Strange thing is we created three quite similar site collections (EN, DU and NL) and got this error when activating the publishing feature only on the Dutch one…
Did you find a solution to it yet.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Hi Frank,
We found out that we can (and are allowed to) activate publishing features at a site but it is not supported by Microsoft to make a template of a publishing site by typing /_layouts/savetmpl.aspx in the url. The error occured when we made a site based on such a template.
Hopefully this is helpful for you. Maybe you can try to also activate the publ. features in the other site collections and see what happens.
Please keep me informed when you are having a different approach / solution for this problem.