Pita/etherpad-lite — Issue #512: Cannot read property 'author' of undefined
Author: avorio
Created: 2012-02-27 16:14:18+00:00
State: open

Hello there,

I'm running Etherpad Lite git version 64f0467. It is running fairly well, except for unexpected crashes. The system is restored and back to normal after I reboot the server. After checking the log files, this is what it reported last:

```
[ERROR] console - ^[[39mTypeError: Cannot read property 'author' of undefined
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js:740:58
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:494:21
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:194:13
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:118:13
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:129:25
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:196:17
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:499:34
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:199:13
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:105:25
at /web/extras/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:196:17
^[[32m[2012-02-27 15:56:11.194] [INFO] console - ^[[39mgraceful shutdown...
^[[32m[2012-02-27 15:56:11.257] [INFO] ueberDB - ^[[39mFlushed 1 values
```

Does anybody have any idea of what's going on, and how to fix this?

Many thanks!

a.