Empty threads (no posts)? wtf?

dj_ivocha on 29/4/2004 at 13:24

See the following image:

(http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ivoch/crap/temp/ttlg1.png) Technical and troubleshooting forum main screen.

Note the 3 new threads.

(http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ivoch/crap/temp/ttlg2.png) Trying to open the first of them... ("ADSL and thievery...", by Convict)

(http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ivoch/crap/temp/ttlg3.png) Trying the second one... ("Pls help with ADSL...", also by Convict)

Eh? :confused:

Only these two thread won't show anything, all other (including the last new post in the screenshot) open normally, showing all posts inside. (http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ivoch/crap/temp/ttlg4.png) See here for example.

[EDIT] Ah, and I tried refreshing/reloading the page... no dice. Tried opening threads on other forums on TTLG, everything else seems normal.

[EDIT 2] A small typo fixed.

David on 29/4/2004 at 18:22

We know about it and are looking into it. Something funky is going on with the database.

Wuggles on 29/4/2004 at 20:35

The same thing causing "No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster" messages probably.

David, when you guys upgrade to vB 3, is it going to use the existing database or will it just import the tables?

dj_ivocha on 29/4/2004 at 23:23

Ah, ok, I thought my pc has gone weird :).

Wuggy, I haven't noticed the problem you are mentioning. When does it happen?

MsLedd on 29/4/2004 at 23:58

I believe the empty threads (made within a minute of eachother, by the same user) were entered in while I was trying to de-bug something else (with the forums still running) and that's why they went wonky.

The "No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster" thing happens periodically when the threads/posts automatic update-thingy hasn't kicked in properly, or it's in the queue.

Anywho... I did some major gremlin search and destry this afternoon, so hopefully things will be as they should be (at least for a few hours). ;)

mopgoblin on 30/4/2004 at 00:18

I don't know if it's related, but last night (a bit more than twelve hours ago, I think) I got a "CGI Timeout" message when replying to <a href="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82165">this</a> thread. I don't recall the exact message, but it was something about exceeding the amount of processing time allowed, and that the server had deleted the process. The post did show up, but it didn't affect the "Last Post" columns in either the TEG forum or the main index, nor did the thread move to the top of the forum. It did appear when searching for my own posts.

Wuggles on 30/4/2004 at 01:12

The CGI timeout issue has been known for quite awhile now, and it seems nobody can figure out whats causing it or how to fix it! When you got the message, enough had happened so that your post was uploaded, but not enough to update the 'last post' table data.

ataricom on 30/4/2004 at 03:22

Yeah, just hit reload and be on your way.

EDIT: Hah! I caught one!! I assume (http://www.geocities.com/ataricom2/cgierror.html) this is what you were refering to.

mopgoblin on 30/4/2004 at 04:04

No, that's not the one - I get a few of the "CGI Error"s per day, while I don't think I've seen the timeout before. Not when posting, anyway. I think it was quite similar, though. And I am certain that something very similar to "The server has deleted the process" was in there somewhere.

Wuggles on 30/4/2004 at 10:19

Ataricom, yes, thats the one.

Mopgoblin I don't think I've seen what you're talking about. Take a screenshot next time.