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I'm trying to import records after cleaning out a bunch of erroneous data, but when I finally got it set up and ran the import I got an Irrecoverable error and was instructed to file an issue with a backlog, but I'm afraid I don't know how to do this.
Could I have done something fatal when I cleared out the data? The importers worked fine for me the first time around.

thanks for any insight as to how to move forward.

well that's just it - I don't know how to do/find a backtrace. I've found error reporting in the Drupal side of things and there certainly seems to be a problem there. Could the following on-going errors (they've been repeating at intervals for I don't know how long) be screwing up my imports? they don't look related to me.

Thanks,
Andrew

Type   cron
Date   Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 8:27am
User   Anonymous
Location   http://sfpublicpress.org/poormanscron/run-cron-check
Referrer   http://sfpublicpress.org/
Message   Cron has been running for more than an hour and is most likely stuck.
Severity   error
Hostname   72.215.170.254

Type   php
Date   Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 8:42am
User   Anonymous
Location   http://sfpublicpress.org/taxonomy/term/14
Referrer   
Message   Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/views/includes/handlers.inc on line 807.
Severity   error
Hostname   67.195.115.105
Operations   

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Date   Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 8:42am
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Location   http://sfpublicpress.org/taxonomy/term/14
Referrer   
Message   array_merge() [<a href='function.array-merge'>function.array-merge</a>]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/views/modules/taxonomy/views_handler_argument_term_node_tid_depth.inc on line 103.
Severity   error
Hostname   67.195.115.105
Operations

AHA! - Thank you Dave,
this is the backtrace

/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Error.php, backtrace, 256
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/DAO.php, fatal, 707
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php, getFieldValue, 443
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser.php, import, 365
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/ImportJob.php, run, 257
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Form/Preview.php, runImport, 229
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Form.php, postProcess, 248
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/StateMachine.php, mainProcess, 166
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/QuickForm/Action/Next.php, perform, 63
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/HTML/QuickForm/Controller.php, perform, 203
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/HTML/QuickForm/Page.php, handle, 103
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Controller.php, handle, 249
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php, run, 209
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module, invoke, 332
, civicrm_invoke,
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/includes/menu.inc, call_user_func_array, 348
/home/publicp2/public_html/version2/index.php, menu_execute_active_handler, 18

I tried importing a smaller csv file file with fewer fields and that actually worked. The I tired another file that I'd been able to import a few months ago and that worked. So I've been planning to copy the data into a new csv file - reusing the structure/format of the earlier files that worked, but if there is another fix that would save me that copy/pasting (which is a shot in the dark) I'd love to hear it.

Thanks again,
Andrew