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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Don't Panic -- software upgrades in progress
I am going to be performing software upgrades on the system that this site runs on, starting tonight and possibly continuing through the weekend.
There will be at least a few hours of downtime sprinkled through the process, possibly many hours if I screw things up along the way. I'm hoping to
not screw things up along the way.
For the technically inclined and curious, I am planning to 0) back up the forum database 1) switch the system kernel from 32 bit to 64 bit, 2) take
advantage of a free hardware upgrade at my VPS available only for 64 bit systems, and 3) upgrade the OS distribution from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. After
the hardware upgrade the site should be running on a solid state drive instead of traditional spinning platters, which may make it faster during
periods of heavy use.
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DrAldehyde
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Thanks for putting in the time.
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arkoma
Redneck Overlord
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Location: On a Big Blue Marble hurtling through space
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Best of luck wrangling those damned penguins! (Micro-WHO??) Thank You immensely for a wonderful website, by the way.
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Bert
Super Administrator
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Mood: " I think we are all going to die. I think that love is an illusion. We are flawed, my darling".
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In your honor, I shall make an Italian break-and-report cylinder shell. Containing substantial amounts of polverone...
Thanks for all you do.
Rapopart’s Rules for critical commentary:
1. Attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it
that way.”
2. List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. Mention anything you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
Anatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911-2007).
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elementcollector1
International Hazard
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Location: The Known Universe
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Not sure if this is even relevant, but I clicked on References and it took me to Legal/Societal Issues... one-time glitch?
Elements Collected:52/87
Latest Acquired: Cl
Next in Line: Nd
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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The bulk of the upgrade is complete now. I still need to check, possibly configure, email alerts again.
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alexleyenda
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Location: Québec, Canada
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Mood: Busy studying chemistry at the University
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ATM I am unable to use the U2Us, I guess that is caused by the updates. I tried several time, it always gives an error saying that my U2U is empty.
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plante1999
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There is still the emails for the one which gave it in their account details...
I never asked for this.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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alexleyenda, I sent you a test U2U message. I also checked the database and you definitely have U2U messages saved there. What happens when you try to
view your U2Us?
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woelen
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Location: Netherlands
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It seems that all users lost access to whimsy and references. The access lists are empty.
@Polverone: Can you have a look at it? I last checked the access lists a few hours ago, because I gave someone access. This morning they still were
OK, now they are empty 
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The Volatile Chemist
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Quote: Originally posted by woelen  | It seems that all users lost access to whimsy and references. The access lists are empty.
@Polverone: Can you have a look at it? I last checked the access lists a few hours ago, because I gave someone access. This morning they still were
OK, now they are empty |
That doesn't sound good... I wasn't on either list, but still...
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Zyklon-A
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Yeah, my access was lost to both Whimsy and Referances. How hard will it be to fix this?
[EDIT] U2U works fine. Will everyone need to request access again? Or is there a saved list of everyone who had it?
[Edited on 2-6-2014 by Zyklonb]
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Hexavalent
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Registered: 29-12-2011
Location: Wales, UK
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Same here, I got the "Sorry, you are not permitted to view this forum" as anticipated 
Regarding U2Us, I have sent myself a test message and all seems to be working fine; I can access my inbox, open and write messages just fine.
[Edited on 2-6-2014 by Hexavalent]
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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I don't know how the access lists were lost. I just dumped from the old MySQL database and restored to the new one. I was able to retrieve the acccess
lists from a database backup and I have restored them to the live db. Whimsy and References should work again if you had access before.
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woelen
Super Administrator
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Location: Netherlands
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The access list for whimsy is empty again .
I can give some more information now. I added a new member and after adding this new member, the list is empty. So, apparently in the software upgrade
something is broken and adding a new member to an access list makes it empty.
After this experience I did not add the new member to references, first this issue must be fixed.
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elementcollector1
International Hazard
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Registered: 28-12-2011
Location: The Known Universe
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Another glitch: Those mail icons on the left no longer work for me (tested on at least 3 computers) - they are eternally stuck at whatever alert level
they were before (blue, orange, yellow circle, etc.) no matter how many times I click on them and/or how many new posts are made.
Elements Collected:52/87
Latest Acquired: Cl
Next in Line: Nd
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Zyklon-A
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Posts: 1547
Registered: 26-11-2013
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Mood: Fluorine radical
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Another glitch: I can't post anything but a subject in the Fused Quartz furnace thread [http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=30471].
It says "Sorry you must enter a message and/or subject."
If I enter both, only the subject appears.
Tried on four different computers and a phone and iPod Touch.
[EDIT] Typo
[Edited on 4-6-2014 by Zyklonb]
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The Volatile Chemist
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Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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| Quote: Originally posted by elementcollector1 | | Another glitch: Those mail icons on the left no longer work for me (tested on at least 3 computers) - they are eternally stuck at whatever alert level
they were before (blue, orange, yellow circle, etc.) no matter how many times I click on them and/or how many new posts are made.
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Mine's been like that for a while, possibly the whole time I've been on here.
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Brain&Force
Hazard to Lanthanides
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Location: UW-Madison
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I can confirm it's just Whimsy, access to References has not been affected.
[edit] it appears several uploaded files have been corrupted as a result of the upgrade. I can't see many photos I uploaded here.
[Edited on 4.6.2014 by Brain&Force]
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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arkoma
Redneck Overlord
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all the sudden Brain & Forces mood looks like this:
Eksanit�ođil�sratoǵ!
(edit) didn't copy/paste correctly
(edit) didn't edit right either
[Edited on 6-4-2014 by arkoma]
[Edited on 6-4-2014 by arkoma]
"We believe the knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind should be accessible to all people around the world, regardless of their wealth, social
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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I found the problem with updating user access lists. With the PHP and MySQL upgrades, non-ASCII characters were no longer passed properly between the
database and the web code. A single non-ASCII character would cause the entire string to be blanked, and some users have such names. User names with
such characters also displayed improperly in e.g. the members list. I had to change MySQL settings and restore the user list from backups again. I can
confirm that adding another user no longer causes the list to be blanked.
Test: Schrödinger
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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The momentarily-screwy appearance of text was probably from while I was still switching encodings and settings over. There is definitely a problem
with at least some attachments. Checking if fresh attachments work...
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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And another test:
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Ok, attachment handling now fixed, one more upload test to be sure...
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Testing larger file size attachments. It should now be possible to upload files of up to 10 megabytes.
Attachment: Talk_05_Neese.pdf (3.9MB)
This file has been downloaded 2521 times
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