Ended up being the user-roles attribute got inadvertantly deleted in the cocoon element of the cocoon.xconf file. That linked example still works fine with 2.1

Jeff
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From: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:francesco.chicchiricco@everett.it]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:09 AM
To: users@cocoon.apache.org
Subject: Re: cocoon upload

On 22/feb/10, at 05:07, Jeff Schmitz wrote:

hello,
I'm trying to implement the file upload functionality outlined here:

http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/FileUploadsWithFlow

But when I try to upload, I'm getting the following error. It looks like some kind of config error, but I think I've set things up per the instructions. Any ideas?

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Hi Jeff,
assuming that you are using 2.1 (2.1.11?), I don't know how much updated is the link that you reported above.

I would suggest to start from the upload sample in the forms block (see [1]).

Cheers.

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/src/blocks/forms/samples/