This item is for system problems.  If something on Grex isn't working 
right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.), 
this is the place to announce it.  Except for security holes.  If you 
find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".

281 responses total.

the system..is down
the system...is down

Backtalk seems to be burping today, its had various periods where its locked
up or slow.  Picospan seems to be unaffected.

Right.  Only affects the new agora for me; other conferences are
as fast as usual in backtalk.  Seems to be a backtalk bug - very
slow to respond the first time you join a conference, okay after
that.  People have noticed this before.  Afflicts fronttalk too.

/a is full again.

/a is full again...how about a permanent solution instead of half-assing it?

You're the ones who're being half-asses.  Get a home directory on /c . 
And yes, newuser is working.

See, it's easy.
/c/a/s/asddsaasddsa

wow, ur so smart asd

pedophile

I can't connect to Grex at all via the WWW today.

re#6
I like my login and don't want to change it.

 I'll see if I can figure out if there is some compelling reason
 we can't just move a bunch of people en masse to balance things
 out a little bit.

You guys are all unlucky. :(

 I've made some space on /a temporarily (about 80MB, which should
 take a few days to fill up, giving us time to discuss a long-term
 solution.)

        thanks Mike

        thanks jor fees

Once again I'm unable to access the new Agora from backtalk or fronttalk. 
If I go there once in Picospan, it works from then on.

re #17 same here, I cant reach the new agora at all from backtalk

I am able to use Backtalk now, and have been able to do so all day 
today.

Don't know... I'm using backtalk right now to post this.

motd still says newuser is not working.
I got garbage when I dialed 484-0512 (did not check 0513) today.

Backtalk works for me now, but only because I used Picospan to get 
myself set up in the new conference on Friday. 

The garbage on dialing could have been because we had our IRQs reversed. 
Things are fine now.

I fixed the motd.

At least as of circa 3:08 p.m., the login screen remains uninformative 
that a newuser program is available:

>Trying... Connected to CYBERSPACE.ORG.
>
>
>OpenBSD/i386 (grex.cyberspace.org) (ttyp3)
>
>User not authenticated. Using plaintext username and password
>login:

Re. #25:
I.e., the number of newusers logging in could be increased by also 
restoring the notice to the login screen. Until then, the only newusers 
logging in will be those who are already aware of the newuser program.

Re. #27:
Even the website says that new accounts cannot be created :(

I had a ton of problems getting to the summer conf this time.  It 
doesn't appear to be letting me in from my conf list, but I can get to 
it through cyberspace.org, and then click on conf areas and agora.
WEIRD!

I"M GLAD YOU"RE HERE NOW< FURS

THANK YOU NAFTEE!

I still can't get into agora via backtalk.  I can get into any of the other
confs but not summer agora

How did you just post then?

He used The Force(tm).

Also known as "telnet".

This backtalk problem is weird, and seems to affect fronttalk as well. 
I wasn't able to access summer Agora with either the first time I tried.
 However, after joining Agora once with picospan, I could access Agora
just fine with backtalk.

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It makes sense that the problem would affect both, since fronttalk is
just a command-line front end to backtalk.

My guess would be that backtalk either isn't creating the .agora??.cf file,
or is creating it with the wrong perms.

repeated strange behaviour in mail....
  
situation ...sometimes two emails get 'stuck together' as one.
  
formerly, i was able to edit, put couple  blamk lines between emails
and assure that first line of 2nd email started with     From    blah@bletch
and since the parser looks for     From   (not From:)  saved stuff
workde JustFine (tm).  parser also looks for zero-character line ahead
of    From   .
  
now, however ............. <<grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr>>    edit says 'screw-you'
'i'm gonna stick a damn   >   character infrnt of your pissant   From   
trick and keep all th is shit stuck toegether just like i fscked it
up for you before!   Thhhhbpbpbpbpbpbpb!!
  
with all this upgrade stuff, how, when sendmail jams 2->1 what sort of
magicv incantations are necessary to unstick so that 1->2 ?
  

I've experienced the backtalk problem with agora.  Usually I ssh in and
blow away .agora* in ~/.cfdir.  Probably that's not a realistic option
for everyone since some people like to keep the status of the threads up
to date where I just mark everything as read after I visit each time anyway.

I've experienced the backtalk problem in a few other obscure conferences
over the past month or so.  I think either comics or games was one.  I
really don't remember.

It happened to me relatively recently when I was at the agora item
listing and I clicked on the 'mark all as seen', and as I was waiting
for it to refresh I middle-clicked to open in a new tab one of the items
that suddenly jumped out at me.  After I closed that item I couldn't get
back into agora until I blew away my agora prefs.  Maybe that will help
in tracking this down.

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