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Grex > Helpers > #140: Grex System Problems - Spring 2005 | |
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Grex System Problems - Spring 2005
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Mar 22 12:11 UTC 2005 |
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".
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naftee
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response 1 of 457:
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Mar 22 15:43 UTC 2005 |
so like what's up with the huge help banner thing that greeted me. I was so
scared I had to whack the space-bar several times to wake myself up.
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i
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response 2 of 457:
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Mar 22 20:08 UTC 2005 |
Agora has a big welcome/help banner that only shows up the first time
you enter the conference. When the seasonal agora rolls, though, the
system probably isn't clever enough to check whether you're an existing
user (of the prior-season agora).
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naftee
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response 3 of 457:
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Mar 22 21:24 UTC 2005 |
Ahh, indeed.
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gull
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response 4 of 457:
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Mar 23 00:18 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk and fronttalk both hang when I try to enter the conference. I'm
posting this from Picospan, which does work.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 457:
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Mar 23 01:27 UTC 2005 |
FrontTalk is working for me.
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daan
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response 6 of 457:
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Mar 23 10:40 UTC 2005 |
The 'HELP' option from the 'menu' program does not work:
tail: /usr/local/lib/menus/dialogs/help_doc: No such file or directory
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johnnie
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response 7 of 457:
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Mar 23 16:11 UTC 2005 |
I'm finding it impossible to access agora via backtalk. No problems getting
inot other confs. Entering this via telnet, which seems fine...
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gull
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response 8 of 457:
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Mar 23 16:44 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk is working for me now. I think it was having problems with the
new conference, but once Picospan had me registered in it, everything
worked.
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twenex
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response 9 of 457:
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Mar 23 17:30 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk crasheth for me:
ERROR: terminated by signal 11
executing "get_conf_note" on line 159 of pistachio/confhome.bt
Version: Backtalk version 1.3.20
Stack:
(Agora)
( has )
10
( )
(items)
(: )
10
( brand new, )
0
( with new responses.<P>)
(<FORM ACTION=read>\n<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=100%>\n<TR><TD
VALIGN=top>\n)
MARK[0]
(1-$)
User Dictionary 0:
dumb=[...] pw_url=(/cgi-bin/pw/backtalk/) dumbbrow=0 vlinkcolor=() bodytags=()
best=[...] alinkcolor=() highcolor=(FF0000)
fw_button_src=(SRC=/backtalk-1.3.1\
8/image/pistachio/brd/button.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16 BORDER=0 ALT="=>">)
global_header={...} regbutton=(bgn) respnumber=() delim=(,:;/ )
entrance_button=(<IMG SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/entrance.gif
HE\
IGHT=16 WIDTH=57 BORDER=0 ALT=Entrance>) itemlist_button=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1\
.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/itemlist.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=54 BORDER=0 ALT="Item
L\
ist">) offbutton=(ggn) logout_url=(/cgi-bin/backtalk/) nni=10 bestsort=5
anon_url=(/cgi-bin/backtalk/) itemnumber=() breg=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/im\
age/pistachio/bgn/) adm_url=(/cgi-bin/adm/backtalk/) textcolor=() linkcolor=()
nonextconf_button=(<IMG SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/ggn/nextconf.gif
\
HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=71 BORDER=0 ALT="No Next Conference">) minbrow=0 nnr=0
bgcolor=(FFFFCC) help_button=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/he\
lp.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=32 BORDER=0 ALT=Help>) curr=[...] bgimage=()
button=(<I\
MG SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/button.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16
BORD\
ER=0 ALT=->>) admbutton=(brd) confhome_button=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/im\
age/pistachio/bgn/confhome.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=68 BORDER=0 ALT="Conference
Hom\
e">) boff=(<IMG SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/ggn/) global_footer={...}
thissort=10 nit=10
button_src=(SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/button\
.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16 BORDER=0 ALT=->>) badm=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/i\
mage/pistachio/brd/) bodyline=(<BODY BGCOLOR=FFFFCC>\n)
noreadnew_button=(<IMG\
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/ggn/readnew.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=65
BORDE\
R=0 ALT="No Read New">) confname=(agora) skip=0 fw_button=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-\
1.3.18/image/pistachio/brd/button.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16 BORDER=0
ALT="=>">)
no_button=(<IMG SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/ggn/button.gif HEIGHT=16
\
WIDTH=16 BORDER=0 ALT="--">) nextconf_button=(<IMG
SRC=/backtalk-1.3.18/image/\
pistachio/bgn/nextconf.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=62 BORDER=0 ALT="Next Conference">)
login=(<PRE>Welcome to the Spring 2005 Agora!\nYour Host: Katie Geddes\n\nNew
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Users: Welcome to Grex!\n\nThis conference has been restarted. Type
"joi\
n winter" for the old version.\n\n</PRE>\n) readnew_button=(<IMG
SRC=/bac\
ktalk-1.3.18/image/pistachio/bgn/readnew.gif HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=65 BORDER=0
ALT="\
Read New">)
System Dictionary:
anonymity=0 since=@0 author_erase=1 texttype=() amadm=0 mayhide=0
http_headers=1 fw_retitle=1 blindfold=0 resp=0 editdate=@0 hidden=0 id=()
http_expires=@0 uid=-1 newbie=0 linktonew=1 sessions=0 homedir=()
yapp_format=0 mayread=1 mayedit=0 ifav=1 expire_session=3600 mayretire=0
canspell=1 flavor=() lastdate=@0
scriptdir=(/usr/local/lib/backtalk-1.3.18/scr\
ipt) parentresp=0 saverep=0 fishbowl=0 maxresp=0 spell_lang=() expect_resp=0
userlist=0 authorid=() spell_ignore=() authorname=() fw_erase=0
author_retire=1 csel=() http_location=() maypost=0 conf=(agora)
copyright=(Cop\
yright 1996-2004, Jan Wolter and Steve Weiss) conflist=(/bbs/conflist)
authoruid=0 conftitle=(Agora) [=mark isel=() linked=0 `=mark loglevel=0
cpass=() secret=0 canattach=0 fwlist=(katie) canemail=0 auto_recompile=1
progname=(backtalk) grouplist=0 exec_limit=0 forgotten=0 maxread=0 mark=mark
showforgotten=0 mayseefname=1 publicflavors=(public) author_kill=1
http_no_cache=0 urlarg=(agora) bbsdir=(/bbs/) dbtype=() fw_hide=0
allowgraphics=1 alias=() stack_limit=0 nopwedit=1 attachments=() gid=-1 item=0
author_retitle=1 author_hide=1 frozen=0 scriptname=() mayfreeze=0 editfrozen=1
fw_edit=0 linkdate=@0 mayretitle=0 cgiquery=() newuseropen=0 amfw=0
post_log_file=() secure=1 rfav=2 http_content_type=(text/html) maxitem=10
author_edit=0 mayresp=0 readdate=@0 author_freeze=1 allowanon=1 title=()
mayseealias=1 maykill=0 noskip=0 confdir=(/bbs/agora53) particip=(.agora53.cf)
erased=0 date=@0 favicon=(/usr/local/www/favicon.ico) timezone=() text=()
retired=0 loginlen=8 rsel=(new) mayerase=0
Environment: DOCUMENT_ROOT=/usr/local/www
HTTP_ACCEPT=text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,tex
t/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-gb,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3 HTTP_CONNECTION=keep-alive
HTTP_HOST=www.cyberspace.org HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE=300
HTTP_REFERER=http://www.cyberspace.org/ HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050115 Firefox/1.0 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
REMOTE_ADDR=81.179.66.29 REMOTE_PORT=48852
SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/local/libexec/cgi-bin/backtalk SERVER_ADDR=216.86.77.194
SERVER_ADMIN=webmaster@cyberspace.org SERVER_NAME=www.cyberspace.org
SERVER_PORT=80 SERVER_SIGNATURE=<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.29 Server at <A
HREF="mailto:webmaster@cyberspace.org">www.cyberspace.org</A> Port
80</ADDRESS> SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.16
OpenSSL/0.9.7c GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1 SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING= REQUEST_URI=/cgi-bin/backtalk/peek:agora
SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/backtalk PATH_INFO=/peek:agora
PATH_TRANSLATED=/usr/local/www/peek:agora
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remmers
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response 10 of 457:
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Mar 23 17:48 UTC 2005 |
That was very entertaining. I especially liked the
"HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE=300" bit.
I was experiencing extreme Backtalk slowness in Agora a few minutes ago
(but not in other cf's), but it seems to have cleared up.
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richard
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response 11 of 457:
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Mar 23 18:40 UTC 2005 |
both yesterday and today I have been all but unable to get into agora via
backtalk. The other conferences come up right away, but agora doesn't seem
to come up at all
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drew
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response 12 of 457:
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Mar 23 19:32 UTC 2005 |
Since the move to Co-lo, there have been numerous CRC errors and such
during downloads via lsz through direct-dialed connections, that almost never
occurred before the move. I think the last time I downloaded with lsz was day
before yesterday.
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richard
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response 13 of 457:
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Mar 23 22:55 UTC 2005 |
re #11 agora seems to be coming up fine now
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rksjr
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response 14 of 457:
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Mar 24 22:40 UTC 2005 |
Grex Web Server Statistics at:
http://www.cyberspace.org/stats/
is currently reporting for time ranges no later than:
October 03-October 09 2004
Is it possible to access current data at some other URL?
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aruba
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response 15 of 457:
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Mar 25 03:52 UTC 2005 |
I suspect that whatever script that was, it doesn't work correctly on the
new operating system.
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jep
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response 16 of 457:
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Mar 26 05:23 UTC 2005 |
I haven't been able to access Backtalk from either home or work all week.
I still can't tonight.
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slynne
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response 17 of 457:
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Mar 26 11:45 UTC 2005 |
That is weird jep. I havent had any trouble with backtalk at all. I am
using it right now as a matter of fact.
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juicy
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response 18 of 457:
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Mar 26 13:10 UTC 2005 |
picospan quit randomly on me a moment ago
byte 1655 [Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]zsh: terminated bbs
... but seems fine now (0805 est)
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jep
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response 19 of 457:
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Mar 26 16:30 UTC 2005 |
Last night when I posted resp:16, I was seeing a big delay upon
logon. I left the browser window open and used putty to connect
instead, and a few minutes after I complained, Backtalk came up and
was fine from then on. It's working fine now, too.
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gull
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response 20 of 457:
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Mar 26 21:52 UTC 2005 |
Re resp:19: For some reason, backtalk can't seem to handle initializing
this conference. If you visit this conference first in Picospan, it
works after that.
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slynne
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response 21 of 457:
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Mar 27 00:47 UTC 2005 |
I have never visited this conference in picospan and I havent had any
trouble
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russ
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response 22 of 457:
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Mar 27 13:56 UTC 2005 |
It appears to be time - if not past time - to block the IP addresses
used by a certain set of twits.
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other
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response 23 of 457:
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Mar 27 16:01 UTC 2005 |
Vanilla interface of Backtalk does not seem to respect user filter
options.
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naftee
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response 24 of 457:
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Mar 27 16:10 UTC 2005 |
someone should fix the vanilla interface on GreX :(
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