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Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now

posted by martyb on Thursday May 23 2019, @12:30AM   Printer-friendly
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martyb writes:

We recently had reports of some 'wonkiness' on the site.

Reports started appearing in our #Soylent channel on IRC about 90 minutes ago. For example, the Main Page would load, but parts of the page (such as the slashboxes on the left-hand side) were missing.

I borked my first attempt, but on the second try successfully restarted apache and slashd on both of our front-end servers: hydrogen and fluorine.

All seems to be working correctly now. If this is not the case for you, you may need to clear the browser cache on your system and/or do a hard reload of the page (e.g. Ctrl+F5). If things are still not right, please reply in the comments and/or pop into channel #dev on IRC and let us know.

I'm not sure what precipitated the behavior; I'll leave that to TheMightyBuzzard or one of the sysadmin folk to investigate. I'm sure they'll fill us in on whatever root cause was found.

OTOH, one cannot entirely rule out a spurious gamma ray that flipped a key bit in memory that caused an avalanche of untrapped events.

You can now return to your usual, spirited discussions.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:05AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:05AM (#846459)

    one cannot entirely rule out a spurious gamma ray that flipped a key bit in memory

    If you had ECC memory, you could. If you are renting space in a datacenter, you actually already have ECC memory.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:17AM (6 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:17AM (#846464)

      Have we ruled out fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic fields?

      Or a comet passing too close?

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:47AM (4 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:47AM (#846477) Journal

        Wonk doesn't come from space, or magnetic fields. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/ [imdb.com]

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:51AM

        by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:51AM (#846538) Homepage
        Have we ruled out the fact that the site is written in Perl?

        Yes, blah blah, good programmers can write good code in any language, but if you're honest with yourself, some languages simply facilitate more bugs that are eliminated completely in other languages (static type checking and garbage collection being the two most prominent features that eliminate bugs).

        I understand that slashdot was Perl as well, and I'm not suggesting rewriting SN, but if you write stuff in certain languages, you're just going to have to accept weird bugs from time to time. I would definitely not write anything "important" in Perl or PHP for example. I would rather opt for Haskell, Go, Ada, or Rust.

        To conclude, I present a Perly gift:

           ''=~(        '(?{'        .('`'        |'%')        .('['        ^'-')
           .('`'        |'!')        .('`'        |',')        .'"'.        '\\$'
           .'=='        .('['        ^'+')        .('`'        |'/')        .('['
           ^'+')        .'||'        .(';'        &'=')        .(';'        &'=')
           .';-'        .'-'.        '\\$'        .'=;'        .('['        ^'(')
           .('['        ^'.')        .('`'        |'"')        .('!'        ^'+')
          .'_\\{'      .'(\\$'      .';=('.      '\\$=|'      ."\|".(      '`'^'.'
        ).(('`')|    '/').').'    .'\\"'.+(    '{'^'[').    ('`'|'"')    .('`'|'/'
        ).('['^'/')  .('['^'/').  ('`'|',').(  '`'|('%')).  '\\".\\"'.(  '['^('(')).
        '\\"'.('['^  '#').'!!--'  .'\\$=.\\"'  .('{'^'[').  ('`'|'/').(  '`'|"\&").(
        '{'^"\[").(  '`'|"\"").(  '`'|"\%").(  '`'|"\%").(  '['^(')')).  '\\").\\"'.
        ('{'^'[').(  '`'|"\/").(  '`'|"\.").(  '{'^"\[").(  '['^"\/").(  '`'|"\(").(
        '`'|"\%").(  '{'^"\[").(  '['^"\,").(  '`'|"\!").(  '`'|"\,").(  '`'|(',')).
        '\\"\\}'.+(  '['^"\+").(  '['^"\)").(  '`'|"\)").(  '`'|"\.").(  '['^('/')).
        '+_,\\",'.(  '{'^('[')).  ('\\$;!').(  '!'^"\+").(  '{'^"\/").(  '`'|"\!").(
        '`'|"\+").(  '`'|"\%").(  '{'^"\[").(  '`'|"\/").(  '`'|"\.").(  '`'|"\%").(
        '{'^"\[").(  '`'|"\$").(  '`'|"\/").(  '['^"\,").(  '`'|('.')).  ','.(('{')^
        '[').("\["^  '+').("\`"|  '!').("\["^  '(').("\["^  '(').("\{"^  '[').("\`"|
        ')').("\["^  '/').("\{"^  '[').("\`"|  '!').("\["^  ')').("\`"|  '/').("\["^
        '.').("\`"|  '.').("\`"|  '$')."\,".(  '!'^('+')).  '\\",_,\\"'  .'!'.("\!"^
        '+').("\!"^  '+').'\\"'.  ('['^',').(  '`'|"\(").(  '`'|"\)").(  '`'|"\,").(
        '`'|('%')).  '++\\$="})'  );$:=('.')^  '~';$~='@'|  '(';$^=')'^  '[';$/='`';

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:31AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:31AM (#846468) Journal

    Tried to make a journal entry a few hours ago, and tried again just now. The "save" button just comes back to the text edit box, and no journal entry is created.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:41AM (#846475)

    I was missing the stylesheets on some pages but not others.

    Also, I keep getting "Invalid form key" when trying to post.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @02:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @02:05AM (#846490)

    People fuck up. No need to ascribe to hardware what could easily be ascribed to human intervention.

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday May 23 2019, @02:24AM

    by looorg (578) on Thursday May 23 2019, @02:24AM (#846494)

    For me it was the subs queue page that was empty (not just the list was empty but the entire page was just black) and then I got force logged out and had to log back in again.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:32AM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:32AM (#846566)

    as per subject

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 23 2019, @12:31PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday May 23 2019, @12:31PM (#846612) Homepage Journal

    Had to go out of town for a few days and only took my phone, so you lot are on your own.

    martyb, slashd only runs on fluorine. If you managed to start it on hydrogen too, things will break.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:41PM (2 children)

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:41PM (#846670) Journal
      I just invoked your bounce script on those servers... my mistake thinking slashd was on both servers. Sorry for the confusion!
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @06:22PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @06:22PM (#846735)

        all comment sections are now flat

        • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday May 25 2019, @12:23PM

          by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @12:23PM (#847562) Journal

          all comment sections are now flat

          I've tried to reproduce this on two different browsers on two different OSs, both logged in and as an Anonymous Coward and cannot reproduce it.

          Please be sure you have cleared your cache, check your user settings (do not have "flat" selected as your preferred layout), and also ensure the URL you are using does not contain any layout specification.

          Clear your cache and try loading this article [soylentnews.org].

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