Monday 9th March: Problems with posting, searching new threads

peachy · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 08:40

Hi Folks,
It seems that Saturday's upgrade has introduced a bug. Those of you on a corporate proxy only (at work) may find that you get a timeout when either clicking "new posts" "today's posts" and also when posting (actually your post will probably post but you will get a timeout).

After the upgrade, as usual, I tested the changes with IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera. I did not test from my work laptop, a step I will take in the future.

This problem is affecting IE6, IE7 and Firefox so it's fair to assume all browsers. This is almost certainly a problem with the StC webserver.

This is obviously bad in that 8am on a Monday morning is the worst time for this to happen, we might need to live with this for today, but the silver lining is that I think I can now reproduce the same error that occurred for a couple of you in Firefox only before.

Apologies for the disruption today, I'll look into it at the first opportunity.

Peachy

Tilia · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 09:09

I'm surfing via company proxy now so let's test if this works. I had no problems clicking New Posts.

Edit: No problems. Surfing via IE

peachy · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 09:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tilia

I'm surfing via company proxy now so let's test if this works. I had no problems clicking New Posts.

Edit: No problems. Surfing via IE

ok, I'll get back to debugging webserver timeouts for dummies, chapter 7 "when it breaks at the most inconvenient time"

Sandgrounder · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 09:30

I'm surfing from my office's IE 7 and there seem to be no problems. Thanks for the heads-up though, Peachy. If it does start doing weird stuff I don't need to get paranoid that the boss is lurking...

I hope...

peachy · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 09:36

Any feedback positive or negative welcome. I can't be the only person with this issue.

Tilia · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 09:40

Maybe the stars have lined up against you. Get down, relax, have a coffee and the stars will be in your favour in no time :-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by peachy

I can't be the only person with this issue.

Sandgrounder · #7 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 10:05

Actually - don't know if it is just me but I noticed it on my home PC (running Firefox) and today in the office (IE7, as previously said) but the "Search Forums" drop-down box at the bottom of Today's Posts is missing.

I mean the box where you can jump to the various topics within the forum.

swissflygirl · #8 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 10:21

I'm at work and am having issues (we're on IE6 here) - 'new posts' or trying to open any thread takes a loooong time. Just letting you know, good to see this seems to affect only a few people, sure it'll get solved by tomorrow.

peachy · #9 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 10:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sandgrounder

Actually - don't know if it is just me but I noticed it on my home PC (running Firefox) and today in the office (IE7, as previously said) but the "Search Forums" drop-down box at the bottom of Today's Posts is missing.

I mean the box where you can jump to the various topics within the forum.

I switched off the jump box deliberately, it is not widely used and adds a lot of bloat to the page.

peachy · #10 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 11:06

ok, I've looked at this further and it is definitely due Saturday mornings upgrade. Since only a handful of us are affected I will roll back the change this evening when I have the time and access to address any issues that may arise.

Expect a brief disruption around 18:00 this evening.