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Legal forum?
- Thread starter ArmySon
- Start date
TheBluesMan
Moderator Emeritus
Been there on and off all morning. Must be you... 
we are under attack
there is a thread with a bogus date that makes any view other than show all posts not work
here is the thread called no: [Link to invalid post9.html
some one get ahold of a moderator
there is a thread with a bogus date that makes any view other than show all posts not work
here is the thread called no: [Link to invalid post9.html
some one get ahold of a moderator
Gunslinger
Moderator
I'm getting in with no trouble but like Son am seeing no threads at all. It is though they have all vanished.
Wait a second....I think I see Rod Sterling up there. Yep, it's him. Hold on and I'll go ask 'im......
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Gunslinger
I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
Wait a second....I think I see Rod Sterling up there. Yep, it's him. Hold on and I'll go ask 'im......
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Gunslinger
I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
TheBluesMan
Moderator Emeritus
Hmmm... Now I can't get there either... 
We're on it! Thanks for the tip.
We're on it! Thanks for the tip.
Rich Lucibella
Staff
Thanks. I'm on it.
Staff, please take no action. It's a broken thread that I need to check out.
Rich
Staff, please take no action. It's a broken thread that I need to check out.
Rich
This is the latest message I received when trying to access legal:
You are attempting to access a private forum. Please identify yourself below. Note that this identification screen will only be required once per browser session (per private forum, if you are accessing via forum passwords), assuming you allow cookies to be stored. We will store your private forum access privileges as a cookie (thus, we highly recommend that you do not disable your cookies in your browser!).
You are attempting to access a private forum. Please identify yourself below. Note that this identification screen will only be required once per browser session (per private forum, if you are accessing via forum passwords), assuming you allow cookies to be stored. We will store your private forum access privileges as a cookie (thus, we highly recommend that you do not disable your cookies in your browser!).
Rich Lucibella
Staff
Son-
I know. With everyone knocking at the door of Legal, the server began to smell of burnin' rubber! If I shut the Forum down, I can't get in to debug. By turning it "private" the server requests are turned back.
I think I have it. Stand by.
Rich
I know. With everyone knocking at the door of Legal, the server began to smell of burnin' rubber! If I shut the Forum down, I can't get in to debug. By turning it "private" the server requests are turned back.
I think I have it. Stand by.
Rich
Gunslinger
Moderator
Yeah Rich, that is pretty much Rod thought to.
Keiller TN
New member
I can't get into the forum either. I get a notice that I'm trying to access a private forum.
Jason Demond
New member
Now it's MIA!
Thank you Rick for getting on this.
Thank you Rick for getting on this.
Christina Whittington
New member
I guess this all explains why Genral doesn't have any topics right now.
When will we be back on? Anyone know?
CW
When will we be back on? Anyone know?
CW
Rich Lucibella
Staff
Here's the update.
UBB maintains all threads in discreet files. However, there's an index for each of the Forums that it looks to when reading(?) or writing to a thread. If that get's corrupted, it can end up in a runaway loop. The server doesn't like runaway loops.
The Legal Forum has a corruted index.
Normally, we can do a reindex to clean up the files. However, every time I try to do this in Legal, the update should stop at 7,100+ threads. I've watched it count as high as 40,000 today!. Well, there ain't 40,000 threads in there. My guess: Not only are the Members getting caught in this loop, but so is the index function. Not good.
I've done a manual inspection of the files and can find no problem.....generally, we'll see a thread with a size of 0....that's a dead givaway. We're not that lucky today.
At this point, I've hacked the index script to print the actual thread it's working on as it goes. Hopefully, it'll hit a certain number and then begin spitting that same number out over and over. Bingo, the culprit! (I hope)
Well, that's more info than you all required, but at least as much as you deserve for the quick alert and your patience. One of these days, I'm gonna enroll in a Perl course. This learning on the fly is a bear. Sure am glad I didn't pick this week to give up sniffin' glue!
Rich
UBB maintains all threads in discreet files. However, there's an index for each of the Forums that it looks to when reading(?) or writing to a thread. If that get's corrupted, it can end up in a runaway loop. The server doesn't like runaway loops.
The Legal Forum has a corruted index.Normally, we can do a reindex to clean up the files. However, every time I try to do this in Legal, the update should stop at 7,100+ threads. I've watched it count as high as 40,000 today!. Well, there ain't 40,000 threads in there. My guess: Not only are the Members getting caught in this loop, but so is the index function. Not good.
I've done a manual inspection of the files and can find no problem.....generally, we'll see a thread with a size of 0....that's a dead givaway. We're not that lucky today.
At this point, I've hacked the index script to print the actual thread it's working on as it goes. Hopefully, it'll hit a certain number and then begin spitting that same number out over and over. Bingo, the culprit! (I hope)
Well, that's more info than you all required, but at least as much as you deserve for the quick alert and your patience. One of these days, I'm gonna enroll in a Perl course. This learning on the fly is a bear. Sure am glad I didn't pick this week to give up sniffin' glue!
Rich