This is to inform you we *are* aware of a problem with the site.
Symptom: The "Most Recent Journal Entries" box that normally appears on the right-hand-side of the main page is currently not currently displaying.
We have tried a few things, but have had no luck so far. We will update this story when we know more.
Problem first became apparent at about 17:45 UTC today.
Workaround: Use Search to look at the most recent journal entries. Specifically:
We will update this story when we know more. I have done all I (martyb) know how; hopefully TheMightyBuzzard will show up before too long and get things straightened out.
[Update-TMB]: The local mysqld instances on both web frontends both decided to be On The Crack for some reason or other. The database itself running over on the db servers was just fine and a restart of mysqld (and bouncing of Apache/Varnish which has to be done whenever mysqld is restarted) on the web frontends put things back to normal.
The cause of mysqld's drug use is unknown and shall remain so unless it happens more than once.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:43PM (13 children)
https://soylentnews.org/journal.pl?op=top [soylentnews.org]
No names under Top Recent Posters By Date, and Top Posters By Number of Entries.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:11PM (11 children)
I'm suspecting a content encoding issue. If I click on your last journal and reply, the journal text itself doesn't show up. Click on this spammer [soylentnews.org] and then go to their last journal entry and nothing shows.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:16PM (10 children)
Funny that it will render when looking at his journal but not while posting a reply.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:52PM (8 children)
Yet the spammers Japanese text doesn't render when looking at his journal. Wondering if not all the code properly handles unicode or if there's another encoding managed to get to the db? I always use iconv, utf-8 in & out with //TRANSLIT flag to fix funky text encodings. The worst web app I ever worked on was a rent-a-coder mess with different encodings for every table. windows codepage, latin-1, utf-8, big whatever... like Pokemon they were trying to collect them all and without any kind of input validation. The fun I used to have explaining crap like that to clients...
(Score: 5, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:29PM (7 children)
1. That spammer journal is Korean, not Japanese.
2. It is a true spammer, advertising a gambling site. I'd call that a soylent squatting.
3. Very invalid Korean really can break some Unicode implementations, as well as some other scripts can.
4. Future wave of emoji accepted to the next standard may be dangerous too.
5. I didn't broke it :]
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:09PM
Those pesky
JapaneseKoreans. This is SN's Perl Harbor!(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:58PM (5 children)
Drop unicode, and all will be well
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:33AM (4 children)
Monolingual illiterate uneducated non-edificated ignorant Americans. I will now say, "fuck you" in a non-English language, and you will not even know you have been insulted!
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:15AM (1 child)
Though you don't need non-Latin characters to do that:
Twll din pob ast a phenci diawl ar ochr draw'r iwerydd!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:24PM
twll din fel ceg pot mwstard.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:31PM
Ow! Ouch! Oh the pain! Stop it! Stop it now!! Pesky gnat.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 26 2020, @01:46PM
日本人は本当の誓いの言葉が必要.
"Americans are stupid" is weak.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @08:26AM
Exaeta's last journal "bye" doesn't render when posting a comment. I don't think the comment I posted in reply ended up going through either.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:14PM
Interesting to note on that page, it is not parsing year for anything posted in 2020 even though the formatting for the year is still present. Not sure if that is important, but maybe it is a perl library thing?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base