Looks like there's an unexpected problem

[vinyl1]

I went on early this morning, and a number of forums were missing.

I hope they are able to recover everything and get running again.

[Boreas]

Completely down now.

"An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later. "

[vinyl1]

Yeah, that's what I see. Probably the database has to be recovered and restarted.

[CarlV]

Some of the stuff is going to be gone permanently maybe including D&S. There was an announcement Grumpy put on AK for all to read and the affected forums disappeared yesterday actually. Luther has been online past couple of days and since this is Sunday and he has a real job my money is he is doing other work on the site.

Carl

[vinyl1]

Er, they don't have database backups and journaling?

[CarlV]

Sure, of course.


Carl

[donquixote99]

Meh. I just uploaded a dozen pics to an album today....

[Boreas]

Meh. I just uploaded a dozen pics to an album today....

Farz I know, they never did get around to migrating everyone's attachments/photos over to the new site. I wonder if they've somehow lost all of that.

[CarlV]

Farz I know, they never did get around to migrating everyone's attachments/photos over to the new site. I wonder if they've somehow lost all of that.

migrating everyone's attachments/photos:confused:

My Member's Gallery pics are accessed off my Contol Panel with the new software and my attachments always were. Maybe Luther wrote a new Member's Gallery into the "new" software. It would make sense that's what he is doing today as he sure loves tricking things out. :)


Carl

[Boreas]

migrating everyone's attachments/photos:confused:

My Member's Gallery pics are accessed off my Contol Panel with the new software and my attachments always were. Maybe Luther wrote a new Member's Gallery into the "new" software. It would make sense that's what he is doing today as he sure loves tricking things out. :)


Carl

In the old software there was a category for the gallery and another for attachments (photos or documents you had attached to posts). I had been unable to locate the attachments from Day One so I looked in the thread where everyone bitched about the new software and read that it hadn't yet been moved over to the new site but that it was on the "to do" list. More recent posts to the thread were complaining that it still hadn't happened.

And what's the "Control Panel" you speak of? I don't have one.

[CarlV]

If I click on my name in the upper right corner where your username and avatar and stats are, mine here (http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?members/carlv.272/), it will take you to the page where there will be a tab, "media". clicking on it opens your "gallery".


Carl

[Boreas]

If I click on my name in the upper right corner where your username and avatar and stats are, mine here (http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?members/carlv.272/), it will take you to the page where there will be a tab, "media". clicking on it opens your "gallery".


Carl

Right. This isn't the "Manage Attachments" from the old software. That was the placed where you could access, within storage limits, every photo or document that you ever added to a post as an attachment. That's gone now and, despite assurances from the site management, they haven't been restored. I had a lot of stuff there that I'm sorry to have lost.

[icenine]

The transformation to Xenforo on Steve Hoffman's site seems to have gone well...it happened two years ago. I like the new AK software but kind of sad that New post pages end at only 9. On Hoffman's site they go on forever.

[CarlV]

How about that, I never looked for attachments and only found the gallery pics by accident last week. Ah well, I liked the original software with the Paragon best, gosh, I remember thinking we would never get to 1,000 members. :p


Carl

[Boreas]

Problems at AK. There has been no activity since early this morning,

[donquixote99]

Heavy SPAM last night apparently messed up the database. Sometimes people can post, but mostly they can't.

[donquixote99]

People can post to this thread, but no one knows anything....

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/post-not-posting.716489/

[Boreas]

Heavy SPAM last night apparently messed up the database. Sometimes people can post, but mostly they can't.

I wonder whether we'll lose any of the archive like we did before. Time to go back to Vbulletin, IMO. I just tried and failed to make a post.

[HarmanKardon]

They should better close the website entirely for a couple of days and fix the problem calmly!

Good Luck Grumpy, Wardsweb et al.

[mystic]

They should better close the website entirely for a couple of days and fix the problem calmly!

Good Luck Grumpy, Wardsweb et al.

Definite need of a tuning up @ the AK boards. the Music Forums have been dormant since 3am (FRANCE TIME) yesterday. Some of us are able to invoke the Post Reply feature in AK New Format (some irony there), and @ "conversations", though @ the latter somewhat intermittently. Frannie (bugle girl), John (Hyperion), and I discovered that "replies" work more consistently if one stiecks stricly to Morse Code and includes few to none "special characters" ("@!? etc.).

[mystic]

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[HarmanKardon]

I just tried to post this very important picture in the "post not posting" thread, but it did not display. Damned!

[mystic]

That's a darned cute photo, Chris. Lemme give posting it a try, although attaching special images, youtube links, etc., bombed repeatedly for me yesterday, but that was @ Music Forums, which died (roughly) 24 hours ago.

[mystic]

I just tried to post this very important picture in the "post not posting" thread, but it did not display. Damned!

Chris,

Go to AK New Format and see your cute photo. I was able to get it to load.

[HarmanKardon]

Mystic, Edwin, you're magic! :)

"Something's broken and the admins are working on it."

(RichPA)

[mystic]

Mystic, Edwin, you're magic! :)



No Chris, I adhere and appeal to a higher authority.

[BlueStreak]

I went on AK for about three minutes on Monday............

Meh.

I rarely ever use most of this stereo stuff anymore. I've been spending way more time (and money) on astronomy gear, since last fall.........

[HarmanKardon]

I feel bad. Very bad. Three days without AK - the withdrawel symptoms are starting to drive me crazy... :eek:

[bobabode]

Anyone with news, chime in.

[HarmanKardon]

I cannot post at all anymore, not even in that fucking Diaspora thread. Hey guys this really sucks. Ernie just posted a joke (apparently due to a lack of good news) over there, so I wanted to post a joke as well, but it did not display at all.

However, it is this one (Playboy, October 1971):

"Doctor!" squealed the lovely patient lying on her stomach. "You've got the thermometer in the wrong place!" "It is not the wrong place," the doctor informed her. "And it is not a thermometer."

[HarmanKardon]

And here is an encore for my dear PC friends:

(Playboy, October 1971)

"Good gracious," said the sweet young thing to the aging roué, "seventy is not old for a millionaire!"

And another one, same issue:

"A taxi-driver acquaintance tells of a horrowing experience he once had when he swered to avoid a child and almost fell off the couch."

[donquixote99]

News, posted on AK by Luvvinvinyl:
Luther and the server company are preparing to restore to an earlier backup. Expect some loss of content. I do not know the exact date and time, but I expect it will be early in the week.

[bobabode]

News, posted on AK by Luvvinvinyl:

Thanks Don!

[donquixote99]

This means if there's anything over there, posted from 'early in the week' to now, that you really want to keep, better make copies now. Site may go down for the restore without warning, site-wide alerts are among the things not working....

[mpholland]

Pretty sure a few lines of text from me won't be missed in the grand scheme of things.

[donquixote99]

Ditto. But some others might have things they want.

[Pio1980]

Any idea what's up.

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[Dude111]

I hope its nothing serious!!

[donquixote99]

Database can be restored. Real question is whether the underlying cause can be fixed.

[HarmanKardon]

It seems to be fixed so far. I lost 29 posts, probably some threads had to be deleted.

[donquixote99]

Alas, problems were starting to recurr, and AK is now offline.

[Pio1980]

As of, now.

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[HarmanKardon]

Yes - AK is kaputt again, however, I posted 36 times over there today.

[nailer]

I was thinking it could be an overload crash. :)

[HarmanKardon]

Are there more post whores apart from me?

[Pio1980]

Mmmm, dunno.

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[Pio1980]

It seems this forum is also up, down, up, and glitching.

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[Boreas]

It seems this forum is also up, down, up, and glitching.

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Yes, it was inaccessible for a few hours yesterday afternoon.

That aside, this is the second time that the new software at AK has crashed with major losses of data, not to mention all the data that failed to reappear after the switch (attachments). Plus there are numerous small glitches in the software like the one involving hypertext. It may now be time to look into going back to vBulletin.

[Pio1980]

V bulletin wasn't a day at the beach for admin either, iirc.

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[Boreas]

V bulletin wasn't a day at the beach for admin either, iirc.

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I don't recall any issues like the ones that have befallen AK since the switch.

[Twodogs]

Wouldn't hurt my feelings too bad if it all crashed and we could start over, with a rule against threads about hooking up two amps to one pair of speakers or vica versa. :)

[Boreas]

I don't recall any issues like the ones that have befallen AK since the switch.

Also, when some mods, ex-mods and members from AK started HiFiHaven, they went with vBulletin.

[donquixote99]

No, I want a rule against complaining about the content of threads, unless one is forced to read them. :) :) :)

[Pio1980]

Also, when some mods, ex-mods and members from AK started HiFiHaven, they went with Vbulletin.

The mods here seemed happy to be rid of it.

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[Boreas]

No, I want a rule against complaining about the content of threads, unless one is forced to read them. :) :) :)

Unless it's about Chinese turntables or the Technics SL-1200.

[Boreas]

The mods here seemed happy to be rid of it.

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It's what we're using on PC.

[Twodogs]

It's what we're using on PC.

Yeah, I like VB just fine. The one I can't deal with is that format they have at Audio Asylum, it drives me nuts.

[Pio1980]

It's what we're using on PC.

Yep, I'm obviously accessing via Tapatalk.

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[barbara]

Yep, I'm obviously accessing via Tapatalk.

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I use tapatalk too.
I like it... User friendly, always handy.

[Grumpy]

I don't recall any issues like the ones that have befallen AK since the switch.


Then you have a very short memory, or were not around for one of the many "great" server crashes we experienced. There's a reason why AK is missing several years worth of pictures and it begins with two letters VB.

We are working on the site and ask you all to be patient.

[Grumpy]

Also, when some mods, ex-mods and members from AK started HiFiHaven, they went with vBulletin.

That's their biz, not ours.

If we had a nickel for every new forum spawned from AK members I could probably retired years ago.

[icenine]

I hope PC goes with Xenforo. But I want a dislike alert added also;).

[donquixote99]

AK is back up. Problem reported to have been a server congfig issue, not related to Xenforo.

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/back-up-and-running-the-sequel.716484/

[HarmanKardon]

Server problems for more than six hours - what's going on over there?????

[JJIII]

Server problems for more than six hours - what's going on over there?????

Whatever it is, someone will blame Trump for it! :D

[HarmanKardon]

Watch out folks, today he destroys AK, tomorrow the entire world... :mad:

[nailer]

Whatever it is, someone will blame Trump for it! :D

For balance I'll blame Hillary. :cool:

[donquixote99]

It's back!

I hear Obama fixed it.

[HarmanKardon]

What a relief! The last about six hours were the worst in my life! :D

[bobabode]

It's back!

I hear Obama fixed it.

Thanks Obummer. ;)