TFL back online! - Page 2

**tyme** · January 17, 2009, 03:52 PM

The user control panel /private message database issue is fixed.

Playboypenguin · January 19, 2009, 04:22 PM

Is this new server really this bad? Seems that the only thing it does with any regularity is go down every weekend and at least one day during the week.

darkgael · January 19, 2009, 04:33 PM

Is it the new server? I've been trying since yesterday to access this forum. No joy until now. What happened?
Pete

rjrivero · January 19, 2009, 04:51 PM

When I traced the line, it timed out at 208.80.15.230

I don't know if this will help, but I offer it anyway.

RJ

btolliverjr · January 19, 2009, 05:14 PM

Is it just on my connection or has the forum been down lately. I wasn't able to connect to it all day yesterday?

Delaware_Dan · January 19, 2009, 05:24 PM

I have had the same problem all weekend

P99AS9 · January 19, 2009, 05:25 PM

It wouldn't let me in yestersat either. I don't think it's our connection.

TheNatureBoy · January 19, 2009, 05:26 PM

Same here in Virginia.

P99AS9 I don't get the Obama and Osama connection. What gives?

sserdlihc · January 19, 2009, 05:27 PM

check this out

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...d.php?t=330928

putteral · January 19, 2009, 05:27 PM

ME TOO

rjrivero · January 19, 2009, 05:27 PM

It appears it was down yesterday, and a good chunk of today. I did a trace, and it was definitely not from my connection.

curt.45 · January 19, 2009, 05:28 PM

it seems to be down a lot.

I don't think it's just you or me.

sserdlihc · January 19, 2009, 05:32 PM

It is their servers. S@#T Happens.

troy_mclure · January 19, 2009, 05:45 PM

the server is having inauguration day blues.

btolliverjr · January 19, 2009, 05:45 PM

Thanks guys. I figured so but just wanted to check.

P99AS9 · January 19, 2009, 05:45 PM

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P99AS9 I don't get the Obama and Osama connection. What gives?

One of Obama's friends (William Ayers) has bombed the pentagon, and so has many of Osama Bin Laden's friends (terrorists in Al-Qaeda).

540mope · January 19, 2009, 06:58 PM

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the server is having inauguration day blues.

millions of citizens are too

**Brian Pfleuger** · January 19, 2009, 10:05 PM

FiringLine needs to move to Mac!

hoytinak · January 19, 2009, 10:36 PM

Man, I really wish TFL could get fixed for good....I work nights and I'm actually having to do a little work to get myself busy instead of playing around on here.

LucifersPants · January 20, 2009, 12:33 AM

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The disk/raid driver was getting stuck, and the kernel wasn't rebooting from the subsequent soft lockup like it was supposed to.

After last weekend's fiasco we had a new linux kernel ready, so we're on 2.6.28 now.

I've also converted 2 of the 3 filesystems that were xfs over to ext3 (the database/web/root directories have always been ext3, but a few non-critical directories were xfs to speed things up). There's a recent xfs bug report I'm worried might have been the cause of these lockups.
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Next time just give it a good whack right at the epicenter of the fulcrum, always works for me.

**tyme** · January 20, 2009, 01:20 AM

Xfs apparently wasn't the problem. The remaining suspects include the kernel software raid driver, lvm2, and the kernel's softlockup detection/reboot code itself. If the kernel incorrectly detects a softlockup and tries to reboot and fails (seems unlikely), that could also explain the symptoms.

Second hand reports from the colo staff were that, a week ago Sunday, sysrq+t indicated the system was stuck in software raid code. However, neither Friday nor today have I been able to get sysrq hotkeys to work after the crashes. Just a message about a detected softlockup, and then one saying it's rebooting in 6 seconds... which it obviously didn't.

For now I've disabled the kernel panic and reboot after a softlockup. Since it wasn't successfully rebooting anyway, there's no sense in having that turned on.

The attachment upload issues and usercp problems were due to bad temporary directory permissions after switching those temp directories from xfs to ext3; those permissions are both fixed.

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Originally Posted by peetzakilla

FiringLine needs to move to Mac!

FreeBSD is a possibility. It's a trade off between the prospect of possible future downtime due to crashes and forced immediate downtime to switch OSes.

B.N.Real · January 20, 2009, 01:33 AM

Cripes,sorry for the new thread Bud.

Thanks for the relink here.

Glad to see the forum is still alive.

These days you never know with other gun forums getting whacked and all.

Playboypenguin · January 20, 2009, 01:52 AM

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I've also converted 2 of the 3 filesystems that were xfs over to ext3 (the database/web/root directories have always been ext3, but a few non-critical directories were xfs to speed things up). There's a recent xfs bug report I'm worried might have been the cause of these lockups.

Uhh...who's in the what now???

Rich Miranda · January 20, 2009, 08:32 AM

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....like taking my cat and stroking its fur from the tail to the head...

Eeeewww. That gave me the chills like when I imagine licking a paper towel.

Rich Miranda · January 20, 2009, 08:35 AM

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I thought it was maybe something I said...

Actually, it was. So we kicked out all the Aussies but then we felt bad and decided to let you back in.

January 17, 2009, 03:52 PM	#26
tyme Staff Join Date: October 13, 2001 Location: Novalis 978-0553586251 Posts: 3,014	The user control panel /private message database issue is fixed. __________________ "Want to keep guns out of the hands of felons? Make fewer felons in the first place." --Vanya "God doesn't make the world this way. We do." --Rorschach, Watchmen "You should know that if you don't do this thing, you won't be in any shape to walk out of here." "Would that be physically, or just a mental state?" --Miller's Crossing

January 19, 2009, 04:22 PM	#27
Playboypenguin Junior member Join Date: February 27, 2006 Location: Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 11,515	What the fudge? Is this new server really this bad? Seems that the only thing it does with any regularity is go down every weekend and at least one day during the week.

January 19, 2009, 04:33 PM	#28
darkgael Senior Member Join Date: February 9, 2006 Location: Homes in Brooklyn, NY and in Pennsylvania. Posts: 4,001	online? Is it the new server? I've been trying since yesterday to access this forum. No joy until now. What happened? Pete __________________ "Only hunting and mountain climbing are sports. The rest are just games." - R.Ruark NRA Life Member

January 19, 2009, 04:51 PM	#29
rjrivero Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2008 Location: NW Ohio Posts: 1,329	208.80.15.230 When I traced the line, it timed out at 208.80.15.230 I don't know if this will help, but I offer it anyway. RJ

January 19, 2009, 05:14 PM	#30
btolliverjr Senior Member Join Date: December 26, 2008 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 423	Forum Status? Is it just on my connection or has the forum been down lately. I wasn't able to connect to it all day yesterday?

January 19, 2009, 05:24 PM	#31
Delaware_Dan Senior Member Join Date: February 15, 2008 Posts: 1,304	I have had the same problem all weekend

January 19, 2009, 05:25 PM	#32
P99AS9 Senior Member Join Date: February 12, 2008 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 612	It wouldn't let me in yestersat either. I don't think it's our connection.

January 19, 2009, 05:26 PM	#33
TheNatureBoy Senior Member Join Date: September 6, 2007 Posts: 1,098	Same here in Virginia. P99AS9 I don't get the Obama and Osama connection. What gives?

January 19, 2009, 05:27 PM	#34
sserdlihc Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 2008 Location: S.C. Posts: 1,390	check this out http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...d.php?t=330928 __________________ Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Aupleius If someone doesn't like you, that's their problem! Milton Childress

January 19, 2009, 05:27 PM	#35
putteral Senior Member Join Date: May 17, 2008 Location: Homosassa,Florida Posts: 206	ME TOO

January 19, 2009, 05:28 PM	#37
curt.45 Senior Member Join Date: December 28, 2008 Location: Fort Wayne Ind. Posts: 780	it seems to be down a lot. I don't think it's just you or me.

January 19, 2009, 05:32 PM	#38
sserdlihc Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 2008 Location: S.C. Posts: 1,390	It is their servers. S@#T Happens. __________________ Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Aupleius If someone doesn't like you, that's their problem! Milton Childress

January 19, 2009, 05:45 PM	#39
troy_mclure Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2008 Location: gulf of mexico Posts: 2,716	the server is having inauguration day blues. __________________ There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

January 19, 2009, 10:05 PM	#43
Brian Pfleuger Staff Join Date: June 25, 2008 Location: Central, Southern NY, USA Posts: 14,670	FiringLine needs to move to Mac! __________________ Still happily answering to the call-sign Peetza. --- You do not HAVE a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body. ----- He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose. -Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.

January 19, 2009, 10:36 PM	#44
hoytinak Senior Member Join Date: July 5, 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 5,708	Man, I really wish TFL could get fixed for good....I work nights and I'm actually having to do a little work to get myself busy instead of playing around on here. __________________ "Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."

January 20, 2009, 01:33 AM	#47
B.N.Real Senior Member Join Date: February 22, 2008 Posts: 4,027	Cripes,sorry for the new thread Bud. Thanks for the relink here. Glad to see the forum is still alive. These days you never know with other gun forums getting whacked and all.