Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fury on February 09, 2006, 01:12:05 am

Title: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Fury on February 09, 2006, 01:12:05 am
Earlier today I noticed HLP had problems accessing MySQL database; the mysqld server process was not running. After starting MySQL again, I noticed most of the forum database was gone. Timing matches with weekly maintenance window, it is likely that the database was corrupted because mysqld server process crashed while there was scheduled maintenance running. Naturally we will investigate the reason for this crash. I used the latest backup of the forum database to restore the forums, unfortunately all posts that were posted since last friday are gone.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: BlackDove on February 09, 2006, 01:19:05 am
*blink*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Prophet on February 09, 2006, 01:23:48 am
Well this sucks...
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Nix on February 09, 2006, 01:25:04 am
At least it wasnt the whole board over a joke of sorts....
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: StratComm on February 09, 2006, 01:27:29 am
Well.  Not what I was expecting to see, and most unfortunate at that.  Glad to know we keep accurate backups though.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: kode on February 09, 2006, 01:28:19 am
In the admin forum:
"Let's see how much we can **** over the community by making the board go down!"
"Yeah, let's!"
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Wanderer on February 09, 2006, 01:30:26 am
Seems that everything changed since friday is gone... No more access to TBP forums for me :(

EDIT: Wow.. that was fast... problem fixed :yes:
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: BlackDove on February 09, 2006, 01:44:01 am
*points and laughs at Wanderer*

hahahahahahaha...

...

*realises his precious postcount is gone*

:(

Meh, don't think I could give a **** myself, BWO hasn't progressed dramatically in the past week, neither has TVWP, I'm cool.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Mefustae on February 09, 2006, 01:47:37 am
My God! I've... i've travelled through time!!!!
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: StratComm on February 09, 2006, 01:49:29 am
You're ok unless you start seeing posts from the future.



:nervous:
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: CP5670 on February 09, 2006, 01:52:44 am
crap, quite a few things have disappeared.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Grug on February 09, 2006, 02:00:13 am
Um yay. A whole weeks worth of internal discussion gone. =/
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: CP5670 on February 09, 2006, 02:16:56 am
When is this "maintenance window"? Is that the cause of the daily downtimes we've been having for the last week?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Prophet on February 09, 2006, 02:28:20 am
Naah... It's just Fury showelling spam from the forum filters... It has to be done weekly or the lover levels will be flooded and become unuseable.  :D
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: kode on February 09, 2006, 02:37:11 am
You're ok unless you start seeing posts from the future.



:nervous:

I effin wish I rather was.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: IPAndrews on February 09, 2006, 02:39:18 am
Holy textual carnage Batman!
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Sigma957 on February 09, 2006, 02:45:01 am
I wondered why I could not log on earlier today.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Col. Fishguts on February 09, 2006, 03:29:22 am
*points and laughs at Wanderer*

hahahahahahaha...

...

*realises his precious postcount is gone*

:(


Stop stroking you e-penis and get back to work on BWO *whisplash*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: BlackDove on February 09, 2006, 03:31:41 am
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That hurt.

Yeah, no good news on that one for you chief, I have no computer to work on it, so I'm FREEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee......for about two weeks until the new arrives anyway.

Did you hear that? FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

*runs off into the night, butt naked yelling FREEEEEEE with an axe*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Nuke on February 09, 2006, 03:34:15 am
well i better start another d2 thread again
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Mefustae on February 09, 2006, 03:38:33 am
*runs off into the night, butt naked yelling FREEEEEEE with an axe*
*Mefustae nicks Sandwich's Browning, takes aim, and fires at the fleeing BlackDove
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Skippy on February 09, 2006, 04:16:08 am
I hope it's not my fault  :blah:
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: madaboutgames on February 09, 2006, 04:45:44 am
So is there any chance of our post re-apearing? Or have they gone where they have never gone before?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Col. Fishguts on February 09, 2006, 04:49:33 am
*runs off into the night, butt naked yelling FREEEEEEE with an axe*

Smithers, release the dogs !
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Fury on February 09, 2006, 05:26:07 am
In the admin forum:
"Let's see how much we can **** over the community by making the board go down!"
"Yeah, let's!"
Yes, we do this just to tick you off.

When is this "maintenance window"? Is that the cause of the daily downtimes we've been having for the last week?
Every 7 days. The maintenance means scheduled optimize of the forums database and error check, maintenance is skipped if there are more than X number of people online. During database maintenance, forums probably won't respond.

So is there any chance of our post re-apearing? Or have they gone where they have never gone before?
Unfortunately no chance of recovering any posts that were posted since last friday.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Unknown Target on February 09, 2006, 05:36:20 am
Tell me again why you guys switched to this board?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: an0n on February 09, 2006, 05:45:02 am
Aw, nurts.

All my witty banter in Char's "I'm a whiney little girl" thread - lost.....
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Fury on February 09, 2006, 05:47:48 am
What does this have to do with what forums are used? Should mysqld process be terminated unexpectedly, any data being modified at that point will most likely be lost. As to why the process was terminated, will be investigated.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: vyper on February 09, 2006, 06:13:11 am
There go our interesting discussions contained within the Go France thread.

Hmm...
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Sandwich on February 09, 2006, 06:24:41 am
Wowsers. Me not being here in the past week actually came in handy! I don't feel any sense of loss at all! :p
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Fineus on February 09, 2006, 06:26:18 am
You did this!!
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: TrashMan on February 09, 2006, 06:26:27 am
I take it you will allso fix the forums going down every other day?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: madaboutgames on February 09, 2006, 07:03:52 am
Unfortunately no chance of recovering any posts that were posted since last friday.
Quote

Great :lol:
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: aldo_14 on February 09, 2006, 07:08:41 am
EEp.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 09, 2006, 07:22:53 am
Wow. That seriously played with my mind.

*goes to prevent Charismatic's thread from being closed again*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Col. Fishguts on February 09, 2006, 07:34:12 am
I miss the "Allow me to introduce myself" thread :(
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: kode on February 09, 2006, 08:22:35 am
In the admin forum:
"Let's see how much we can **** over the community by making the board go down!"
"Yeah, let's!"
Yes, we do this just to tick you off.

I was kidding. joking. you guys in former russia know about joking, no?

It is beginning to become a lot silly, however. wasn't the whole damn point of skipping servers increasing the damn uptime?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Primus on February 09, 2006, 09:14:17 am
Wowsers. Me not being here in the past week actually came in handy! I don't feel any sense of loss at all! :p
Pretty much same thing for me :D
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: an0n on February 09, 2006, 09:26:31 am
I was kidding. joking. you guys in former russia know about joking, no?

It is beginning to become a lot silly, however. wasn't the whole damn point of skipping servers increasing the damn uptime?

In former Soviet Russia, joke tells you.....
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Prophet on February 09, 2006, 10:05:40 am
Former Russia? :wtf:
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: achtung on February 09, 2006, 10:42:51 am
I say, switch again, but this time use the host sectorgame does.  It seems reliable.
http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/
Third one down looks about right.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: an0n on February 09, 2006, 10:46:23 am
They could use my server, but they don't trust me.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Ghostavo on February 09, 2006, 10:47:28 am
I say, switch again, but this time use the host sectorgame does.  It seems reliable.
http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/
Third one down looks about right.

No experience necessary?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: achtung on February 09, 2006, 10:54:15 am
hehe, whoops, didn't notice that.  But seriously the specs look about right, I think.  Of course I don't know how much bandwidth and space HLP eats up.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: fearian on February 09, 2006, 11:02:53 am
for FREDs sake; I had to reregister!  also I lost my introduction tread - I practicly wrote an essay on how I discovered the magic of freespace!

*sob*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: Flipside on February 09, 2006, 12:50:14 pm
I look at it this way, in 2 weeks time, you won't be able to remember a single thing that you posted and has been deleted, you probably can't remember everything that was posted and deleted even now ;)
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: CP5670 on February 09, 2006, 03:14:44 pm
Well, I had some PMs I still remember. :p
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: MicroPsycho on February 09, 2006, 03:25:24 pm
whoa...this is good for me, I can re-release my models when they are fixed an no one will be the wiser!

if at first you don't succeed, erase any evidence that you tried, and I didn't have to erase it!
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Charismatic on February 10, 2006, 04:44:48 pm
[rageandrant]Godamit HLP you mother****er; i had a personal topic i was hopeing to check on. You know how much work it took to write that first post\thread? Bah. Bastards.    *Shakes fist at internet*Meh. Glad to know me\my topic was remembered and liked:P But still im so pissed at HLP right now.. where is the nearest "HLP *****ing thread"?
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: aldo_14 on February 10, 2006, 05:33:03 pm
[rageandrant]Godamit HLP you mother****er; i had a personal topic i was hopeing to check on. You know how much work it took to write that first post\thread? Bah. Bastards.    *Shakes fist at internet*Meh. Glad to know me\my topic was remembered and liked:P But still im so pissed at HLP right now.. where is the nearest "HLP *****ing thread"?

Here, evidently.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 10, 2006, 08:52:25 pm
[rageandrant]Godamit HLP you mother****er; i had a personal topic i was hopeing to check on. You know how much work it took to write that first post\thread? Bah. Bastards.    *Shakes fist at internet*Meh. Glad to know me\my topic was remembered and liked:P But still im so pissed at HLP right now.. where is the nearest "HLP *****ing thread"?

Calm down. Seriously.

There's no reason to get your knickers in a knot about this. It's just a forum. There is Real Life™, and there are other forums, namely ones like GTD Bastion which need more attention.

Instead of worrying about a thread full of cynicism about relationships and some scattered advice, how about just handling the problem in Real Life™ first before coming to us? We're a close community here, but we're no substitute for people in the real world.
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threads disappear to?
Post by: Charismatic on February 10, 2006, 10:22:20 pm
Yeah i know; and i am working on it. Meh. Give me time. *is calmer*
Title: Re: READ: Where did all the latest posts and threa
Post by: CP5670 on February 11, 2006, 12:26:30 am
I just go to the AT video forum when this place goes down. The AEG guys all came out of hiding a few days ago and there has been no shortage of flamewar drama over there since then. :D