I am regularly encountering the following error when users try register on one of my sites.
I also encounter it from time to time when tying to 'Edit text' in a module - Sometimes just by clicking on the 'Edit' link it actually does bring up the editor.

I am running a standard DNN 4.4.1 installation with SQL Server 2005. The only change I have made is installed the 'English(South Africa)' language pack and set this as the default once a user logs in. (The US date format in the forums was very confusing to local users here). The language pack updates the dates in the Forums to the correct format, but the 'What's new' roll bar at the bottom of the page still displays it in a non local time zone. I updated the web.config to use 'en-ZA' as the default culture.

Here is the error I get when there is a registration failure :

AssemblyVersion: 04.04.01
PortalID: 0
PortalName: xxx
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: 62
ActiveTabName: Register
RawURL: /Register/tabid/62/ctl/Register/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://xxx/Default.aspx?tabid=62
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 46bbdb9e-d9bc-4894-92f1-2a14a8883a16
InnerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: FreeTextBoxControls.Support.ResourceManager.LoadResource
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at FreeTextBoxControls.Support.ResourceManager.LoadResource(Hashtable target, String language, String cacheKey) at FreeTextBoxControls.Support.ResourceManager.GetResources() at FreeTextBoxControls.Support.ResourceManager.GetString(String name) at FreeTextBoxControls.Support.Helper.PopulateDefaultDropDownList(ToolbarDropDownList toolbarDropDownList, FreeTextBox freeTextBox, ResourceManager resourceManager) at FreeTextBoxControls.FreeTextBox.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: WWW1

Also the site log makes use of the default date and time setting instead of the localized versions.

Has anybody else encountered this problem or have any advice for me.
It will be much appreciated

Thanks,
Deon

this looks like an FreeTextBox issue, please note, that DNN 4.5.0 will switch default HTML-Editor to FCKEditor.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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