Please Post Forums Issues - October 2004!

[Fred Ruffet]

I've just had the same error (twice) as Victor said :
Error while posting the reply.

Regards,

Fred

[Rick Garland]

Been trying to submit a post but I keep getting the error message "error submitting new post".

[Pete Randall]

I've had trouble posting replies all day today, both with Netscape and with IE. I hit the submit button and after 30 seconds or so I get "error while posting reply". If I hit the back button and resubmit it will eventually work, sometimes after many tries. Frustrating!


Pete


Try #4

[Bharat Katkar]

HI Dan,
i noticed one thing today about the magical replies.
Rabbits comes up after the thread is closed irrespective of whether the points are assigned or not. If the Owner of the thread is not satified and closes the thread then may be you will see RABBIT.!!

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=728424

Don't know if it is already discussed.
Regards,

[Ganesh Babu]

Can someone move this thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=701042

to windows 2003 category..

Ganesh

[Steven E. Protter]

First two posts need to go. Third post with attachment needs to stay.

The HP-9000 server with my attachment was booting, stripping the post of its attachment.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=728878

The double post was a result of the ongoing error when posting issue.

SEP

[Jan van den Ende]

Dan,

I also ran into
"Error while posting the reply."
dozens of times the last hours!
Something definitely NOT a-okay.

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi Dan,

I've come across the same issues with replies over the last 2 days. The one thing that I figured out just now when replying to a post was that it failed when somebody else was replying to the same thread. When I tried again after they had posted it was fine.

Don't know if this will help or even if it's related but there you go anyway.

Peter

[MarkSyder]

Just like everyone else, I've had problems replying today - three hours to reply to someone's problem!

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Simon Hargrave]

2 points: -

1. Replying seems to have got better this morning since being really bad this morning. Hopefully this is now fixed.

2. On the subject of people wanting subtle reminders on assigning points. Why not have it such that if a question is viewed within the forum that was placed by a used who has eg given points to eg <50% of their questions, it says so at the top of the message. That way when the questioner sees this when wondering why they have no answers, they may go and assign points ;) Clearly this "flag" should disappear once they have done the points thing.

[MarkSyder]

Sy (like your name but spelled different:)

I would be a bit wary of such a blatant comment about assigning points. What if, for example, a new user was posting his second question in a day and the first one was not yet resolved? It would be unfair on him if a notice appeared on his second question stating that he had not awarded points on any of his previous questions.

I believe we should be giving gentle reminders to people to give points, but in the end it should be to their own conscience.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Geoff Wild]

Can NOT POST...from 9am mst until now...

Rgds...Geoff

/me wishes the forums were on HP-UX...

[Steven E. Protter]

As the current third largest accumulator of points in itrc, I've stopped directly asking users to assign points.

If by checking profile, I find the user has a particularly agregious records, I may drop a comment such as "Stuart Browne deserves points for his answer" or somethng even shorter like that, "these other guys deserve points, blah, blah blah"

I still find it annoying that now a user can close a thread and get a bunny without assigning points.

We have to be postive with users. We have to give them a chance to learn the system if they are new. ITRC gains strength from every new member, and ever question that is asked. Repeat users will learn and most when they learn how the system works will go back and assign points.

I guess that's easy for me to say, but lets not get into a long debate on point assignment. We have several old threads that dealt with the issue until I got nauseous reading them.

Changing topics.

Went through a multi hour outage this morning. It was so bad, I emailed Dan just in case nobody knew it was down.

I'm very sure HP is working hard on the problem and want to confirm that the problem was happening to multiple users and was not browser dependent.

IE 5.5 on Windows 2000
Mozilla 1.6 on HP-UX.

Have a GREAT weekend everybody.

SEP

[Simon Hargrave]

I agree with Mark about the newbie getting "give points" messages too early. As well as notifying for <50% answers given points, there should be a lower limit on this. eg it doesn't start until say 20 or 50 answers or so.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Dan,

I still get the "Error while posting the reply" message.

Nov 1, 2004 14:50:40 - 15:25:40 GMT

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[Steven E. Protter]

Posting errors growing frequency.

Mozilla 1.6
HP-UX 11i

SEP

[Hein van den Heuvel]

>>> I still get the "Error while posting the reply" message.

Same here. I started to make very sure to have a copy of the intended reply text at least in the paste buffer, and often in a textpad file. I lost a few too many.

This morning a straight re-reply worked.

Last Friday, several retries all failed. When I exited IE completely (all windows), and restarted it worked. Now this may have been a coincidence, but for now i woudl suggest this as workaround: Internet Explorer: 'close group', restart, re-reply.

fwiw,
Hein.

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

I'm having difficulties in posting replies. I have success in doing a refresh, but first times and some times second to fourth tries are a bust. Sometimes doing a re apply doesn't work.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Dan,
Im also having trouble sending replies...
And so just created a duplicate in
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=731251

Can someone remove a copy?

Is the system slow or am I in trouble somewhere?
I reply but the window doesnt seem to refresh (no aknowledge...) so I cancel and start again and the second time it passes I get the aknowledge message but now there are 2 copies...
Sorry for that

All the best
Victor

[Gary Cantwell]

Hi Victor,

removed your duplicate,

Cheers,

Gary

[Steven E. Protter]

A HP-9000 server that is not my own is emailing me.

http://www.diageo.com

Best guess is someone downloaded my checkhardware.sh script and didn't redirect the email locally.

If anyone can get hold of the offer and let him or her know that a disk may have just failed on his or her HP-9000 server, I'd appreciate it.

I don't want to contact the company directly or hit reply because I don't want to get anyone in trouble.

Regards,

SEP

[Jan van den Ende]

"Error while posting the reply"

Occurs VERY frequently. Then intermittently one successfull post, followed by many erros again.

And especially during European morning time,
"Server not available". Looks like solved +-when Eastcoast wakes up (??)


Both situations happening Sat 30/10, Sun 31/10 and Mon 1/11.

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Fred Ruffet]

Tru64 related thread in HP-UX forum :

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=731970

Regards,

Fred

[Fred Ruffet]

Here is an example of the strange behavior mentioned some days before :

The thread I pointed at has been close by author, without any reply from anybody. It appears with the bunny icon, but it is not "solved"...

Regards,

Fred

[Steven E. Protter]

Fred,

Thats a feature.

When you close a thread there is a box to click indicating that the problem is solved. Click that, the thread gets a bunny.

If I'd been on the team I'd have argued against that or have that click automatically assign 8 points to any unassigned questions.

But thats not the way it was implemented, and from what I can gather the system is working as it was designed.

SEP