Please Post Forums Issues - February 2006

[Andrew Merritt_2]

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP, and haven't noticed any problems with this forum that are linked to the browser.

Andrew

[Hein van den Heuvel]

It's back... 'system unavaiable' after a post.
Two replies this morning, twice that message.
Both times the reply did make it in, but the topic does not get bumped to the top of the pile it seems.

With Firefox i can just go back a page, and capture the text 'just in incase', then click on the topic link to se whether the reply made it in.

fwiw,
Hein.

[Pete Randall]

For the last hour or so (7:30 - 8:30 EST), I've been pretty much locked out of the forums. System unavailable, connection refused, etc.

I had been thinking that it was better for a few days, but, apparently, here we go again!

:^(


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And, of course, I got the usual "system unavailable" trying to post the previous.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Dan & Cheryl:

You run a very interesting site. Within the last half-hour or so, I saw another "time warp". If you don't believe me, find one of your databases with a thread by Duncan Edmonstone, titled "Where have all the treads gone?" or something to that effect.

As in times past (yes, pun intended) I made an entry therein.

Your comments?

Regards!

...JRF...

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - Time warp again :)

Main page had this for points:

1 A. Clay Stephenson 62856 pts.
2 Steven E Protter 50359 pts.
3 Pete Randall 39901 pts.
4 James R. Ferguson 38551 pts.
5 Patrick Wallek 32129 pts.
6 Stefan Farrelly 31445 pts.
7 Michael Tully 30676 pts.
8 Sridhar Bhaskarla 29182 pts.
9 harry d brown jr 28268 pts.
10 Bill Hassell 27335 pts.
11 Jeff Schussele 24911 pts.
12 Sanjay 22047 pts.
13 Robert-Jan Goossens 20970 pts.
14 S.K. Chan 20936 pts.
15 Leif Halvarsson 19566 pts.
16 Kurt Beyers 18825 pts.
17 T G Manikandan 18533 pts.
18 procura 16967 pts.
19 drew dimmick 16924 pts.
20 Shiju Wilson 16219 pts.
21 Geoff Wild 14405 pts.
22 Alex Glennie 13457 pts.
23 melvyn burnard 12839 pts.
24 Uwe Zessin 12658 pts.
25 RAC 12551 pts.

I had several of these:

Server Error
The following error occurred:
[code=CANT_CONNECT] Could not connect because of networking problems. Contact your system administrator.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please contact the administrator.

Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

Blazingly fast right now!

Rgds...Geoff

[melvyn burnard]

Emailed Dan et Cheryl re the last hour or so of issues.

[melvyn burnard]

Just an update, it seems they ar elooking into this

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

Thanks Melvyn

Really appreciate you updating us on the status of this ongoing issue.


De

[Pete Randall]

Well, *that* was interesting.

I just experienced the aforementioned "time warp". I was unable to connect at all using Netscape on HP-UX, so I thought I would just double check using IE on XP. The Forums came right up, but there was Duncan's "where have all the threads gone?" thread sitting right on top with a latest reply date of 02/09/06. I opened it, noted James' response from earlier and added one of my own. No amount of reloading or refreshing could get it back to a current date. Then, a few moments later, my Netscape session managed to connect, and now, if I refresh the IE session, it's back to current.

This place is just plain weird!

;^)


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

The time warp is a test database, thats been oft repeated, though who gets to see it and who gets error messages is a mystery.

Performance until 10 seconds ago has been abysmal. This forum is making the Israeli government agencies look fast. It takes a lot of work for ANYTHING to make the Israeli government look fast.

How about it. Escalation please.

SEP

[John Collier]

Wow. Haven't had to come here in a long time, but I think it is time to second the request for escalation.

The site is virtually unusable for a majority of us (it would seem). Pete's response was from 0700, and here it is 12:05 (CST) and the site is still stingy with it's data.

I don't get as much time to come here as I used to so it is especially frustrating to me when I can't even use the time I have to the best.

How about it? Is that escalation possible? Even better yet, how about an ETR??

[Jeff Schussele]

Yep - I just checked the Servers -> 900 page & the latest post was from Sep 2005.
Although another quick test just now was back to current.
Would whomever is playing with the DB *please* stop?

Warped,
Jeff

[Geoff Wild]

Maybe, if there is a person playing with the db, they have root access?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1000095

Rgds...Geoff

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Cheryl/Dan,

Can someone tell me why this page

http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1000380&admit=-1335382922+1139581861067+28353475

has been removed?
It was simply a setboot/fastboot question.
Maybe our DB gremlin is back at it....

Cheers,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Well...well...it back now.
I guess we're in for another roller coaster day %^()

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Well, it look's like you need to buy more mouse food.

...JRF...

[OldSchool]

system unavailable.... connection refused....and I can't count the times in the last couple of weeks that I've had to back-up, cut and paste a reply because of authentication denied...

[Steven E. Protter]

I hesitate to post this:

Pat on the back, great day. As an experiement I decided to stop double clutching and all but one post went through. The double clutching thing is a hard habit to break.

A sign of improvement, no change in my ussage patterns, except increased posting in a failed effort to hit 60K before I get trapped on an airplane 13 hours on Thursday.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=140137

How did you guess I hadn't had my coffee yet? I went and immediately had some.

Thanks to the HP team, I know you are working hard.

A thanks to all forums participants, last week was the best week ever for me in removing stats collection is distortion in 2004.

SEP
Shmuel to the NDS Israel crowd.

[Steven E. Protter]

I post a compliment the database isn't working.

Front page point totals are off, the person I gave a bunny a few minutes ago did not have his total reflect it.

I earned a bunny while reading my own thread because I can't resist itrc threads and my total did not update.

I have to double clutch while posting and the browser hangs while posting points.

Oh, and zero for me on all posts, but how about we run through the issues threads and submit points.

SEP

[Steven Clementi]

I know this may be a simple issue compared to the other issues as of late, but I just noticed that I had a typo that could be rather confusing to some. And rather then re-opening the thread, making a new post (or just posting after the fact) I was wondering if somone could simple change 2 character....

In my closed thread...
" http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=946030 "
...in the closing message, i posted 3.1.2. It should be 2.6.2.

If not, I will just post a follow up correcting myself, just let me know.


Steven

[Pete Randall]

Approximately 6:15 through 6:30AM EST, "system unavailable" and/or absolutely horrendous response times - measured in minutes!

If only Steve (SEP, that is) hadn't posted that compliment!

:^)


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And, of course, I got "system unavailable" trying to post that last!


Pete

[melvyn burnard]

Modified Steven's closing thread as per request