this board is a giant bug !

These are old bug reports that have been closed.
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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
this starts to annoy me :evil:

George, I beg you, do something >_<
Last edited by Sheltem on Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
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What do you think about the endless stream of spawns ?

What about modding wandering spawns which dont attack the player directly ?
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me too!






ANTI-STRESS KIT

1. Place on firm surface.

2. Follow directions below

BANG
HEAD
HERE


just happened while I was trying to preview my post.
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Yeah, every other page load.. or more. :(
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It was working fine for a while and now this started happening again, this is getting depressing.
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Hi all,


Noticed that sometimes. First time, was about to mail George that the site was on outage and then it came back ^-^ Annoying and better solved but not too bad once you know of it...

What annoys me more in this board is that, when ctrl-clicking on links to topic, it opens the topic on a new tab, but also on the original tab, which was not the intended result. And that is not random, it happens all the time...

Sorry Sheltem for squatting this post, I think I'll open one...

EDIT #1 : here it is, and I linked to yours !

EDIT #2 : since 0500 GMT+1 (time I get up ^-^) this morning, I observed it's beginning to become more frequent. Now I usually have to refresh from 3 to 10 times to get a page displayed. Really becoming an annoyance :(
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George, cant you tell us why this server is constantly producing DB-Errors ?

Please, ...
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What do you think about the endless stream of spawns ?

What about modding wandering spawns which dont attack the player directly ?
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i just got the error 3 times trying to view this topic, not including refreshes, then another 1 for this post!
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Topic Review wrote: phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

What's happening?




maybe a virus?
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VIRUS!

Call the Virus Busters!

(Shoots viruses with Tev7)

If I may go off topic here, I'd like to tell you a story.


One day I was using my terminal and suddenly, this thing pops up, SpywareSherrif derivitave. Well, I entered into combat with the villian, smashing registry recources, vaporising files, and clearing cookies, but i never managed ti catch the fiend. Then I'm in a dark registry key, searching for some hint of my enemy. Suddenly, I see him, tampering with IE! I erased the attacker, but it was too late to save my Home Page setting. From this day on, every time I open IE, about:blank comes up.

THE END
A true story.


By the way, trying to post, view, edit, and hopefully not repost, I encountered about fifty critical errors, the "Cannot connect to database" one. Maybe there's something wrong with George's MySQL?
[schilcote] It doesn't have to be good, it just has to not be "wow is that the only thing you could think of" bad
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if this continues then we should start visiting UTF more often and whoever the administrator is (i think fossaman) should check his mail more often for registrations
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this is getting serious i managed to get here after approx 40 clicks :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

ANTI-STRESS KIT

1. Place on firm surface.

2. Follow directions below

BANG
HEAD
HERE

just happened while I was trying to preview my post.
*tries it*

ahhhhhhhhh what a feeling ......... o..f...
o...f...
PAIN!!!!

but it calms down the anger
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Wow... You need to relax... You have issues. However, i think PHPbb is having issues... More then the Db... Unless this forums is getting a ton of hits even so it should handle it.
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maybe there's few hundred spam bots crawlin roun onna da forum? taht wud doo itz.
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Hi all,


As for what I know... I have several phpBBs on my site, including one that hits around ten hundreds a day with thrice the articles in this one, and there's no problem of this kind.

The only anomaly I noticed here was the large number of users, and particularly inactive ones : 3/4 of around 1000 never posted anything. Are they genuine human lurkers or spambots defeated by another barrier farther down the road ? I don't know. On my board, I have only 1/8 of members with 0 posts on 200 members and I check spam filters every so often so I know my spam barriers are effective against bot registration.

So is there a huge bot inflow, mostly blocked but that drains the server and could explain both the errors and the high number of inactives ? Only George could tell us with the admin stats...

Noticed another thing... Most users online is 157 when it is 17 on mine. Just don't know what to do with that but it could be related... Maybe peak hours ? It's over the par with the # of users, but not with active users. Maybe after all we're a bunch of lurkers here ?
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