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, Funny) by NickM on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:01PM (4 children)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:45PM (3 children)
I checked the slashcode regarding journals, it looks like The Mighty Buzzard isn't up to date on proper sanitizations.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)
IIRC it's inherited [slash] code that TMB has been hacking, so it might not be his code you're seeing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:43AM
Yep, we need to know the lines in question so the right people git blame.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:35PM
You're mistaken. User data going into the DB is all in prepared statements that automatically sanitize everything as far as the DB is concerned and HTML sanitization is done at page rendering time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.