"Goto new posts" not working & PPRuNe pages not opening

[Alanwsg]

Sorry to post this here, can't find a suitable feedback or tech forum.

The "Goto first unread post" link for each thread seems to have stopped working for me, I just get a blank page.

[FJ44]

Same problem.

[popstar]

Same here.

[dazdaz1]

Works for me, W7/Firefox

D

[42psi]

W7 firefox 3.6.9 ..not working for me :{


edited to add .. something else also going on .. when I posted this I again got the blank page .. had to redisplay "new posts" before I could see it had indeed been saved ...

[dazdaz1]

I got a blank screen , displaying 'done' bottom left after clicking 'submit reply' had to reload page to see my reply on board. I blame the French

[Saab Dastard]

Don't worry, you are not alone, it seems to be a problem with the PPRuNe site.

It seems that an incompetent at IB was tinkering under the bonnet (or rather, hood, as they are in California) and has left a few important bits on the floor.

SD

[Rwy in Sight]

Since this morning about 80% of the PPRuNe pages I open either do not work (as "the page appear to be broken") or does not load and only a series of numbers appear on the address line of either the mozilla or the IE.

Anyone having the same problem?

Rwy in Sight

[Capetonian]

Since this morning when I click on the 'first new post' arrow I get a blank page. I'm using Firefox 3.6.9 and having no problems with any other websites I've used today.

[jimtherev]

Me too - tho' it isn't the same for everyone: new posts are being added by other more privileged folk!
Edited to add - SD has words of wisdom on another thread. (New pages not opening.)

[RedPortLeft]

It's not working for me (blank page) if I click the links from the pprune home page, but is fine from other pages (using Chrome)

[Krystal n chips]

Had a similar problem when editing posts....got a "page cannot be displayed" message....same when clicking on a thread without going into the forum.

My other sites seem fine....in the main..although a couple have returned the same message.

Interestingly enough, when I submitted this post, I got the above message and yet the post does appear in the forum

[BOAC]

Hmm - reminiscent of a certain other mod who used to 'tinker under the bonnet' and cause havoc:ugh:. At least the pprune clock is sorted - it reckoned I was up and posting at 0144 this morning - some chance!

Keef started a thread here earlier about the problem - it was reckoned to be a javascript problem.

[Neptunus Rex]

It seems that an incompetent at IB was tinkering under the bonnet (or rather, hood, as they are in California) and has left a few important bits on the floor.Surely PPRuNe cannot be employing PTF (Pay To Fiddle) 250 hour IT staff, whilst they learn on the job?
I think we should be told!

[Pontius Navigator]

Isn't the web wonderful, you have a problem and find that you are in a Maori war canoe without a paddle rather than a single seat kayak.

[ChristiaanJ]

Same as above, sounds as if somebody needs having "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" hammered into him with a very large very wet wad of printout.

CJ

[vulcanised]

Read new posts has been working for me all day but I am getting that blank screen when I've posted.

[Mr Optimistic]

me too on Opera

[G-CPTN]

Thought it was because I'm sitting (well, lying, now) in a cheap hotel using their free wifi.

I've had to stop trying to use Iplayer as it clogs the system.
There's a limit to the download (100 Mb or something) - how does one monitor how much various sites consume?
I visit some (other) forums that include photographs - that seems to be 'hungry'.

[ChristiaanJ]

G-CPTN,
No, it's not you, obviously... everybody is having the same problems.

CJ

[Mr Optimistic]

paints a sad picture: lying on the floor in a cheap hotel downloading photographs off the internet. Poor connectivity may not be the worst that could happen.........

[FullOppositeRudder]

When I first got to the computer 24 hours ago, none of the usual PPRuNe pages were available at all. :eek:

I was on the point of ringing the Prime Minister, when a second visit about 15 minutes later was rewarded with all of the usual favourites - and a profound sense of relief :ok:. The 'blank page after posting' problem was noted shortly after that.

There may have been a more serious problem earlier on, and what we see now are the 'aftershocks'.

FWIW

FoR

[kiwi grey]

If I click 'view first unread', on Firefox (v3.6.9) I get a blank page with a URL like "http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5927726#post5927726" with "Done" in the bottom left-hand corner. In IE I get an "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" message.

But if I navigate manually to the page, it displays OK, so I just have to guess then page back and forward through the thread until I find out where I was up to. :{

Also got the same symptoms with posting this message. Bah, humbug :*

[Bill Harris]

Same situation here. I thought that it was because I'm moseying around the Web with and old browser (IE6), but this is happening with old and new browsers.

FWIW.

--Bill

[WillingPilot]

Hello

I keep getting this when I try to see threads.

[spannersatcx]

I get this everytime I post a reply:

The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.

[Keef]

It's broken (a technical term).

Issue is finding a techie who can fettle it. Good ones are very, very rare.
There are lots who will tell you they are good, but they are the ones who break it and then walk away :(

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Issue is finding a techie who can fettle it. Good ones are very, very rare.
I'm good. But

(1) you might not like my prices, and
(2) I'm rather busy for the next couple of weeks.

[Parapunter]

Try not to clap yourself Gertrude, someone will likely throw you a fish.:rolleyes:

[Saab Dastard]

Guys, believe me we feel your pain. We mods are suffering even more pain.

It appears that IB have walked away for the weekend.

Nothing likely to be done until they deign to put in an appearance on Monday morning - that's morning in California, btw.

Why is it that their tinkering always happens on a Friday? :hmm:

SD

[Tarq57]

FWIW I have no trouble opening Pprune pages using Firefox, but email notifications containing a link to the new reply to a subscribed thread fail to display anything beyond a blank page.

[Edit] and posting a reply (just noticed it with this post) returns the same blank page after submission.

[RedPortLeft]

Why is it that their tinkering always happens on a Friday?

IT SOP.

Most likely the person that did it will also be on holiday for 2 weeks and no-one else knows what they did ...

[mad_jock]

hee hee bet its a half arsed cron job gone wrong. Mind you I have done a couple of them myself. A fellow pilot once manged to rm -rf as root at a trading bank. Screwed the banks trading database and the cron job triggered before the daily backup.

It was after this event he was forced to pull forward his aviation career by a few months.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Most likely the person that did it will also be on holiday for 2 weeks and no-one else knows what they did ...
Yup. Last emergency web site fix I did was one of those. Did a "no cure no pay" fixed price deal, and had it working in a few hours. And they bought me a curry.

[Cacophonix]

Try not to clap yourself Gertrude, someone will likely throw you a fish.I am sure that Gertrude was not phishing for compliments. ;)

Having had the irritation and misfortune to have to direct a team of 'web development specialists' in the past I have learned that most of them wouldn't understand configuration management, unit or regression testing if it crawled out and bit them on the arse. Cue web developer and, most likely, some nincompoop with a smattering of Java, C#, Python (blah, blah, blah) will attempt to wreck your site for you.

[mad_jock]

I don't think direct is the correct term for dealing with web developers in the main.

Herding? might be more correct

[Gertrude the Wombat]

in the past I have learned that most of them wouldn't understand configuration management, unit or regression testing if it crawled out and bit them on the arse. Cue web developer and, most likely, some nincompoop with a smattering of Java, C#, Python
Clearly I don't count as a "web developer" then.

Seems to me that to build a web site you need "artists", whom you don't let anywhere near the software, "designers", whom you don't let anywhere near the software, and "software engineers", whom you do. I'm one of them (mostly working outside the area of web sites). So I can do an excellent job on making the software work properly, but wouldn't dream of doing any of the arty work, because I'd be crap at it.

[Basil]

A url such as:

.pprune.org/jet-blast/427173-mysogyny-what.html#post5929784

will take you to the desired page.

The website search facility seems to be generating, e.g.

.pprune.org/jet-blast/427053-you-chunker-traditionalist-post5929854.html#post5929854
if you remove:

-post5929854

you will be left with:
.pprune.org/jet-blast/427053-you-chunker-traditionalist.html#post5929854

which sort of works but does not take you to exactly the desired posting.

[mad_jock]

You also need a systems peep to make sure they don't have enough rope to hang themselves and the wire is plugged in the wall.

Your developing what?
And you want admin rights?
Local or server?
Actually the answer is the same either way. :mad: off.

[Tee Emm]

Besides having identical problems as described above I get a message saying I must wait anything from 10 seconds to 120 seconds before re-posting and I haven't even tried to re-post but just clicked on to a user-name to check public profile and then get the message.

[jimtherev]

Just having an uncomfortable little wriggle that this may have been triggered by complaints by Keef and myself that the 'go to last post' icon is inconsistent in its execution. Could it be that someone at IB saw this and said to him/herself 'well, that's easily fixed' and b***ered us all up.
Nah, it couldn't be that.
could it?

[Keef]

Anything's possible...

... indeed, likely.

[Saab Dastard]

Could it be that someone at IB saw this and said to him/herself 'well, that's easily fixed' and b***ered us all up.

Not really - even with a direct line to the IB sysadmins we mods can barely get them to accept that the problems we report are not figments of our fevered imaginations.

SD

[jimtherev]

Not really - even with a direct line to the IB sysadmins we mods can barely get them to accept that the problems we report are not figments of our fevered imaginations.

SD
Do I detect just a tidge of paranoid despair here, Mr Saab? Mind you, 'twould be perfectly understandable in view of the sterling work you do. :)
Carry on modding.

(Thread drift. Now how would one cast that movie?)

[Bill Harris]

And I got the dreaded "page cannot be displayed" screen when I tried a Reply last night. Let's see if this works...

Using an ancient IE 6.0, BTW.

--Bill

[Loose rivets]

Posts...erm, post, but all I get is a white screen. I go to the post by another means, and it's there!


Can't get a link to embed in a new post however. Same white screen, and even opening another browser and looking at it with that, doesn't help.

[PPRuNe Pop]

"Internal server error" when making a post. Can't be sure if it is a PPRuNe thing (there are some issues at the moment) or something to do with my pooter. Any help please.

PPP

[Loose rivets]

I'll see what happens when I try to answer.


This appeared - URLs seem to sit in the box, but don't go. However, the post- posts. I'm having to wait another 37 seconds. why oh why? Takes all the fun out of quick repost


http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5931329&posted=1#post5931329

Oddly, that embedded link worked. Mostly they just give the WSOD.

[Temet_Nosce]

Not working for me on Firefox 4.0b5...

Come on guys, how long do we have to wait for this to be fixed??

[Army Mover]

Tried Opera, IE7, Chrome and Safari, all with the same error result; just tried it from my work PC with the same result.

[tomotomp]

Anyone else having difficulty with the go to first new post button:confused:.

[BOAC]

Recommend stronger prescription:). Oh, and I cannot access that post at all!

Anyone rung California to see if they are up yet?

[tomotomp]

BAOC which post are you refering too:confused:

[Senior Pilot]

Probably this one (http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5931620#post5931620) :ooh:

[Keef]

Still not working here, but the sun must be close to waking up in California. Whether or not California will consider this problem worthy of attention, we must wait to see.

I've got phpBB setups running in several places, and they "just work". Maybe this software is just too complex to be workable...

[Keef]

Just having an uncomfortable little wriggle that this may have been triggered by complaints by Keef and myself that the 'go to last post' icon is inconsistent in its execution. Could it be that someone at IB saw this and said to him/herself 'well, that's easily fixed' and b***ered us all up.
Nah, it couldn't be that.
could it?

I'm beginning to think that Jim has it. I notice that when I post a reply in a thead that I've read, and then go back to the front page and round again to check the reply, it shows "unread posts" even though the only unread one is mine.

[Loose rivets]

Odd how different people are having different issues.



Happened again then. Had to go out of post, and reselect the thread from the top. There it was.


Just this up top. No warnings etc., of any kind.

http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5932222&posted=1#post5932222

[MidlandDeltic]

Yep - still happening here to, in both Firefox and IE7.

Knowing tech support, first line of response will be "we can't replicate that here" :E

MD

[SpringHeeledJack]

Yup, it's been happening for the last 2 weeks and has now migrated into posting! When i hit the 'submit reply' button the next page is now a whiteout in the middle of a snowstorm in Siberia. I only know that my post has gone through if i hit the back page button twice, get the original composed message box and i scroll down to see my new post there.....There's something going on at IB, tinkering with the matrix :suspect:



SHJ

[TopBunk]

Seems to be working again now for me (Firefox+ Vista)

[Keef]

Yes, fixed here too.

[jimtherev]

Someone's woken up in California.:)
Alleluia, Amen.

[Loose rivets]

Testing testing


Hooooray!

[G-CPTN]

Now they've changed the title of the URL that I have saved so that I get the message 'Invalid forum' . . .

Why can't they leave things alone?

Old URL was http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast-16/
now http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/

Edited to add:-
Now 'they' have changed it back to http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast-16/
and http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/ doesn't work! :ugh:

[BOAC]

Why can't they leave things alone? - it's a nerdy thing. It stops them doing nasty things to women and children. I believe 'sublimation' is the correct term.

[Bill Harris]

Works with the ancient IE6.0. Knock on wood...

[Temet_Nosce]

All working again - well done :D :E

[Rwy in Sight]

Confirm. And God it was a long and difficult weekend by itself and without PPRuNe it was more so.


Rwy in Sight

[LH2]

I notice that mad_jock got himself successfully banned. Why do I get the feeling it must have been something he posted here that must have upset some drone in California? :ok:

[Saab Dastard]

mad_jock's 1-day ban has nothing whatever to do with this thread or the recent IB c0ck-up.

SD