Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

[tinker]

I expected some announcement. Although I suppose you have to sleep sometime.

[Snowhog]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

The announcement was displayed when attempting to connect. He had to replace a failing hard drive.

[tinker]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

Errr, to replace one HDD in the RAID array took so long, even if it wasn't hot swapable?

I think I'll wait till Open Source answers. But thanks anyway Snowhog.

Did you also see the message from the Windows IIS server?

[Snowhog]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

Did you also see the message from the Windows IIS server?

I saw the message when attempting to log on to www.kubuntuforums.net (specifically). As to the length of delay, well that's for OS to comment on.

[Open Source]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

I am trying to find out what actually happened as I did nothing to the site, and other sites on this server were still up. I will let you know when I find something out.

Thanks,
OS

[toad]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

wasn't me

[aged hippy]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

I expected some announcement. Although I suppose you have to sleep sometime.

Maybe that was the problem....

[tinker]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

I am trying to find out what actually happened as I did nothing to the site, and other sites on this server were still up. I will let you know when I find something out.

Thanks,
OS

Unfortunately, there will be little that might help you troubleshoot in what I observed but here it is.

My first attempt, the site wasn't found. Later, there was a 404 from an IIS. Later still the informational message about drive replacement was displayed.

I don't know exactly when it went down, I don't know exactly when it came back up. However, I did ping the site periodically for over 16 hours while it was down.

toad might be onto something, hope you have everything patched up to date.

[Qqmike]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

Down, I think, approx 28 hours for me, that I could tell. At first, I thought the gods (of the Penguins, of course) were punishing me for not yet getting up to snuff on 8.10, complacent with 8.04. As the downtime went on, I panicked with not much to do and realized I might have to go about getting a real life. What a relief it's back up. I promise to look into this 8.10-thingy soon.

[Little Bear2]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

i may have some info for you it may be the host had the error

[dibl]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

Please tell, LB -- what do you think?


p.s. @Qqmike, WHAT -- is this not the real life?

[Qqmike]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

dibl: "p.s. @Qqmike, WHAT -- is this not the real life"

Oh, good, I'm OK then, no problems ... right where I should be, whether it be up or down ...

[Little Bear2]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

dibl like to kow what i think or know about the error on the forum

[dibl]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

@LB, I'd like to hear your theory on what happened to take the forum offline yesterday -- do you think the hosting service got hacked?

[Snowhog]

Re: Errr, Open Source, whats been going on with the forum?

I noticed yesterday morning when I got up - about 8:00am or so - and couldn't connect. It didn't come back up for the better part of eight hours. My first post yesterday was recorded as November 07, 2008, 04:52:20 pm. I wasn't on the Forum the day before, so can't say when the problem first showed up.