Problem with phpBB and the Forum

Post by **Mille** » November 19th, 2007, 9:03 am

In art workshop some people had problems with triple post in one of my high sea threads. In consequence i couldnÂ´t answer in the forum, and now one of the two threads is gone.

This seems strange:(((

Post by **Kestenvarn** » November 19th, 2007, 11:26 am

Just deleted the extra posts for you.

It was giving me errors while doing so, but seems to have gone through alright.

Post by **ivanovic** » November 19th, 2007, 11:38 am

Even if phpBB says that there was an error, often it does just work as expected so in short:

Do not repost if phpBB is so kind to tell you that there was an error. First check if the post was really not accepted.

Post by **Mille** » November 19th, 2007, 12:43 pm

Kestenvarn wrote:Just deleted the extra posts for you.

It was giving me errors while doing so, but seems to have gone through alright.

Thank you:)

Post by **Kestenvarn** » November 19th, 2007, 12:43 pm

Also, it is not accepting the changes to an Edit Post during these errors.

Post by **Mille** » November 19th, 2007, 12:46 pm

Kestenvarn wrote:Also, it is not accepting the changes to an Edit Post during these errors.

Yes - That i just wnated to say:)

Post by **Mille** » November 19th, 2007, 12:48 pm

Mille wrote:
Kestenvarn wrote:Also, it is not accepting the changes to an Edit Post during these errors.
Yes - That i just wnated to say:)

Additionally the frontpage actualizes not correctly and soemtimes there appear really strange empty posts in the forum overview with stupid timastamps as 1970

) DonÂ´Â´t know if this helps

Post by **Kestenvarn** » November 19th, 2007, 1:20 pm

Those sound like awesome timestamps.

longhair · Post by **longhair** » November 19th, 2007, 2:25 pm

PHP (and UNIX in general) starts counting from midnight on January 1, 1970 (GMT). The time system is based on counting the number of seconds from then. If PHP encounters an error with the time, it will return -1 (PHP 5 does this anyway - not sure about 4) instead of the severa billion seconds it should return. Of course, that gives you 12/31/1969 23:59

Post by **doofus-01** » February 23rd, 2008, 4:32 pm

Hi,

I think this is on topic: I'm having trouble posting an attachment, .php script isn't being read correctly (gets downloaded as a text file). It's possible it's a problem on my end, but when this happened yesterday I once got an error page that said:

Code: Select all

Could not query total filesize

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 2006 MySQL server has gone away

SELECT sum(filesize) as total FROM phpbb_attachments_desc

Line : 1272
File : posting_attachments.php

Then I tried to post again and it went through. Not so lucky now.
Is there a problem with the site? Can anyone else post attachments?

I understand websites sometimes have problems, but if it's something wrong with my computer, being patient won't solve anything.

Thanks.

EDIT: And of course, after I post this and go back to give one last try, it works flawlessly. Sorry, never mind...

Post by AI » February 23rd, 2008, 9:04 pm

The server is just overloaded, so every once in a while, the database server or the webserver time out, giving you a whole range of errors depending on where on the site you are.