PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

[TheCotMan]

Ok. I think we have the thing we were missing before. Maintenance tonight at 10pm. (Pacific Time)
Forums may be unavailable for up to 2 hours.

Maintenance appears to be complete.

What's up with vb 3.0.7? 3.0.9 is out, unless you guys are just putting a fake version heh.

Now, would we do something like that? We are running version 0.0.0 now. ;-)

Thanks, CotMan! I'm getting those mail responses to subscribed threads that I haven't seen in six months.

No problem man. I'm happy that we were able to get it fixed too.

What's up with this new site certificate? Every time I log in now, it pops up.

This should be fixed for non https (meaning http) users. https users still have to deal with it for now. More on this later.

.. now.. where.. did we.. put .. that webserver anyways ...

I don't know where it went, but we found it.

I think this means all forum-related items brought up in this thread have been addressed.

I would like to encourage any of you who find bugs, or problems with the forums that did not exist before this maintenance to report them here.

Also, please report any outstanding issues for things that worked before the forums were moved (~July 22) but no longer work.

Thanks!

[Ridirich]

Thanks Cot, yeah it is. Firefox was wigging out. It said DC forums were trying to hack me...I told it to bite me.

[TheCotMan]

Thanks Cot, yeah it is. Firefox was wigging out. It said DC forums were trying to hack me...I told it to bite me.

Was this after the upgrade? What was the error, and what version of FireFox, and what OS and version?
Can you duplicate the error? How about after Quitting and restarting the application?

Thanks

[allentrace]

Was this after the upgrade? What was the error, and what version of FireFox, and what OS and version?
Can you duplicate the error? How about after Quitting and restarting the application?

Thanks

I know it kept asking me If i trusted your certificate for several days then it stopped a few days ago. Microsoft cannot verify the authenticity of this sites....blah blah blah.

[Ridirich]

Exactly. It stopped a few days ago. You fixed it.

No, it was not before firefoxes update, so whatever the last version was.

The message that came up was about the cert of auth, and that it could not comfirm that the cert was true and someone may be trying to hack my pc.

[TheCotMan]

Excellent. Thanks to you two for the feedback, and information on this problem being fixed.

Please report forum bugs/problems here:

[TheCotMan]

For those who were wondering why the forums were unavailable for 40 hours:
It appears there is failure in the the drive interface and/or drives on the server being used to serve the forums.
This failure seems to have lead to an OS failure and filesystem corruption as well as database table loss and corruption.
An advanced restoration of content from pre-upgrade, post system failure, and post-upgrade dumps have been used to make this revision of the database.

A backup of the database as of this post will be made, but this problem is not resolved. Do not expect reliability and uptime until the problem that caused the corruption is diagnosed and resolved.

If you find post-restore bugs or problems, please post them here. I think most PM and posts are up-to-date.

Thanks

[CP99]

For those who were wondering why the forums were unavailable for 40 hours:
It appears there is failure in the the drive interface and/or drives on the server being used to serve the forums.
This failure seems to have lead to an OS failure and filesystem corruption as well as database table loss and corruption.
An advanced restoration of content from pre-upgrade, post system failure, and post-upgrade dumps have been used to make this revision of the database.

A backup of the database as of this post will be made, but this problem is not resolved. Do not expect reliability and uptime until the problem that caused the corruption is diagnosed and resolved.

If you find post-restore bugs or problems, please post them here. I think most PM and posts are up-to-date.

Thanks

Thanks cotman, I was wondering, now I know.

[converge]

ok.. I'll be sure not to post anything of value then

arg... once again my full explanation of life as we know it (c) and the undisclosed documents of completely understanding women (c) have been lost forever. dammit.. that is the last time I type those out.

[allentrace]

and the undisclosed documents of completely understanding women

I think I have the Cliftnotes of those somewhere.....hang on.

[Ridirich]

Well, I must admit, I was upset when the boards were down....but ya know...they move alot faster now. Did you prune?

Anyway, thanks guys.

[TheCotMan]

Well, I must admit, I was upset when the boards were down....but ya know...they move alot faster now. Did you prune?

No pruning. Several attempts were made to restore as much data as possible from a variety of sources. AFAIK, no threads, or PM were lost, and none were intentionally pruned.

The problematic storage appears to be the cause. A few hours after the reboot, these problems seemed to stop, and disk access is as fast as it was, before the problems. (It is working now, but not fixed.)

We're doing extra backups once every one or two days. (Late night users may see messages about this as the forums get closed for a few minutes.)

Other updates:
One bug reported with the forum maintenance. (It is being examined.)
Quick-Edit and Quick-Reply are now enabled. (Seem to work)
THE PURGE is coming in 10 days. (Users with unconfirmed e-mail, but registered before Oct 1 and zero post count will be purged. Users with zero post count and no activity since before Oct 1 2003 will be purged.)

[TheCotMan]

The forums have been down for about 70 hours due the same problem as before. I mentioned before that the problem was not fixed, and to not expect things to be reliable. The problem is believed to be a Kernel/Driver issue with the hardware, and a new kernel and fresh OS install has been completed.
We'll be conducting automated backups more frequently and testing things out. If you encounter problems with this new install, please post them here so they can be addressed.

Thanks!

[TheCotMan]

E-mail problems have been reported:
Email notices on thread subscription, and e-mail password reset and e-mail Pm notices are broken because email doesn't seem to leave the box.

[TheCotMan]

Mail should be fixed, and at least works for me.