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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: Vidrazor on January 12, 2007, 12:43:58 AM
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phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I've been seeing this a lot here lately. It's happen to me at home on a PC with dialup and at work on a Mac porting via T1. It's intermittent, but sometimes last longer than I'd care to wait. What's up?
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http://forums.banditalley.net/viewtopic.php?t=8029
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What the message is telling us right now is that phpBB via the webserver is sending a query for a particular post, or forum, to the database server and it's not getting a response from the SQL server period. This is different than a delayed response, where it may just take some time to return with the page that we request.
This most commonly is a problem when the hardware/Operating system that the BB is running on gets bogged down, but has also been known to happen when there's something wrong with the code in tthe BB itself.
Reasons for getting bogged down are traffic - either to the one website, or because generally many websites are hosted on one box, a problem with the database - corruption, etc, or a rogue process that's using up most or all of the server's processor capability.
edit: Actually, I'm starting to wonder if our multitudes of spammers have done this....
God I'm a geek
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Thanks for the info. A few other things I've noticed lately is that a page never seems to finish loading (always a spinning wheel on Firefox telling you data is [supposedly] still coming in, I have to hit the STOP button to end it), and as of a few days ago, text that runs off to the right of the screen and the reply message box cursor being about half a character behind the point where your last letter is located. The reply box text also runs "off screen" on the right side of the reply text box.
Weird stuff kiddies... :wtf:
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That's bizarre. I use firefox under both windows and linux, and I haven't noticed what you mention. I'll watch for it though. What version of Firefox are you running? I have 1.5.0.7 under Linux, and 1.5.0.8 (Ooops,.. just upgraded this minute to 1.5.0.9) under windows. You're not using the new V2 are you?
I know that Pete must have done a board upgrade at some point, because our quoting stuff is fixed, perhaps the new version has the bugs that you mention under specific circumstances... ?
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I've been seeing this alot lately too.
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I've been seeing this alot lately too.
Of which? The phpBB critical error or the firefox issue?
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I'm on Firefox 2.x. on both platforms. Perhaps this is a Firefox problem? I'll add however that I'm only experiencing these things on this site only.
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I'm on Firefox 2.x. on both platforms. Perhaps this is a Firefox problem?
Could be. I can upgrade to 2.x and try I guess.
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I haven't had an error message all day today, but earlier in the week it was rampant... and this was with IE 6.0 @ work - and I was getting it at home with the latest version of Firefox, so I don't think it's a Firefox issue, or if it is, it's a bug in IE 6.0, too.
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I haven't had an error message all day today, but earlier in the week it was rampant... and this was with IE 6.0 @ work - and I was getting it at home with the latest version of Firefox, so I don't think it's a Firefox issue, or if it is, it's a bug in IE 6.0, too.
Well we're looking at 2 different things. The phpBB critical error is at the data centre where the site is hosted. Either the machine that the webserver or SQL server is on is bogged down, or there's a problem with the database itself.
I haven't had that error either today. This is a good thing. :)
Perhaps another site on the server was getting hit hard, and bandit alley was also suffering as a result?
Then there's the weird text issues that vidrazor is having in firefox.
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>>...but earlier in the week it was rampant... and this was with IE 6.0 @ work...<<
Ah, so that's it, then. Stormi's screwed up the entire site and is trying to cover her tracks... :lol:
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Ah, so that's it, then. Stormi's screwed up the entire site and is trying to cover her tracks... :lol:
Wha?? How did I do it?? :monkeymoon:
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Aw come on Storm... fess up!
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Yeah, I was getting the critical error thing too and I'm running Netscape 8.1 (no laughing please) on an ADSL lite line.
Everything seems okay tonight but for the last 72 hours or so it would not load. As per Vidrazor's comment about the "still loading" thing, I've had that too from time to time.
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I,m getting the critical error thing too,jus tpopped up when I tried to click on the tech thread.
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I get the critical error and I run Opera 9.01.
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To quote that doofus in the Dodge Hemi commercial... "This can't be good".
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I've been getting the critical error message with safari, IE and firefox. Wait 5 minutes and it works again.
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Aw come on Storm... fess up!
Alright, that's it,... I'm restoring every last bit of spam I deleted. :monkeymoon:
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Well, this morning at 1:01AM EST I got hit with phpBB : Critical Error again. I don't think it's a traffic issue. I don't know where the servers are located, but even at 10:01 California time on a Sunday night I can't imagine a lot going on.
I've also notice the emoticons are no longer animated, with the exception of the beers icon. :beers:
Strange stuff kiddies.
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And again with the critical error message all day/evening Sunday and the same with the Suzi Stroker Board that I also hang out on. Is there some kind of attack virus that targets only boards running PHP s'ware ??? Anyone ??
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Keep in mind that it's not between 10pm and 1am for the entire world. Some parts of the world were already getting up for work on monday, or part way through their day.
It's not necessarily your traditional "web traffic" causing the grief. It can be a denial of service attack against the server, or it can be what we call "rogue" processes. (That's a program that was running properly, then forgot it's manners and began causing havoc on the computer, by using all of it's resources and such.) It could be that the database is "upset", because of corruption. It could be that there's something broken in phpBB right now.
This problem is actually 99% of the time completely a software problem. Either the database software, the operating system, or the bulletin board software ( i.e. a configuration problem)
The problem is that the people that need to know about it so they can fix it, aren't finding out. I suspect that even if Pete knows about it at this point, that he will still have to be in contact with the company hosting the website. They are the ones that will have to fix the communication problems between the two parts of the server that are malfunctioning.
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And again with the critical error message all day/evening Sunday and the same with the Suzi Stroker Board that I also hang out on. Is there some kind of attack virus that targets only boards running PHP s'ware ??? Anyone ??
A distinct possibility. phpBB and postNuke sites are some of the most heavily attacked and exploited boards there are. What's the web address of the stroker board?
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Here's a screen grab of how it looks like on my Mac at work, along with the basic hardware and OS info:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/vidrazor/b-alley.png)
Notice the spinning wheels and text. This is Firefox 2.0.0.1
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Here's a screen grab of how it looks like on my Mac at work, along with the basic hardware and OS info:
Notice the spinning wheels and text. This is Firefox 2.0.0.1
I noticed the same last night on firefox 1.5 under linux. I -think- what's happening here is that some of the advertising at the bottom of the page has either not finished loading, or is "refreshing" and not bothering to confirm that it's finished. When mine did it, it had a google address in the status bar, so it seemed that it didn't get it's stuff from google fast enough.
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>>I -think- what's happening here is...<<
Well, that's a possibility, but it's only happening on this site. That doesn't explain the text issue. At another site, sport-touring.net, I'm seeing a WEE bit of text (the very last letter on the right of a the longest line) get chopped. I don't know if anyone else on the site has experienced that, haven't asked. I suspect that perhaps Firefox may have a bit to do with this.
I haven't seen the text issue lately on my PC at home, but as you can see from the screen grab of my Mac at work, it's pretty bad. Anybody else getting cutoff text like that either here or at any other sites?
And the emoticons thing is weird. They appear to animate on the Mac, but still no animation on my PC. All my java settings are no different than they were (I believe those icons are java scripts, no?). I'm wondering if I killed something off in Windows services or gpedit that may have something to do with this. Why is the beers icon animated? Is it an animated GIF?
Looking for clues...
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I suspect that the not finishing loading is site specific. The text thing is likely a small incompatibility of firefox with phpBB, whether that's a coding problem in phpBB, or something broken in firefox's new version I don't know. I tend to believe it's the latter. I don't get the issue with the older version of Firefox, and I haven't had time to upgrade. The mac that I have sitting here may have vers. 2.0.x on it though, I'll try to remember to do that tomorrow. For the time being, I have to go to bed, gotta be up at 6am to drive th eother half to work. I hate mornings!
The icons should just be animated gifs. I'm not too sure what to tell you about all of that.
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Reinstalled FF 1.5.0.5 (on my Mac at work). Still see text running off. Still getting all funky type on the Mac. I have to do a text preview to refresh the screen so I can see what I'm writing. If I try to backspace through my text that I'm writing, all hell breaks loose trying to find not only the cursor, but a good number of letters typed. Happens intermittently too. That's not a smily face I'm typing there! :duh:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/vidrazor/morejunk.png)
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im also getting the critical error alot.
don't have any other problems though :banana:
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Reinstalled FF 1.5.0.5 (on my Mac at work). Still see text running off. Still getting all funky type on the Mac. I have to do a text preview to refresh the screen so I can see what I'm writing. If I try to backspace through my text that I'm writing, all hell breaks loose trying to find not only the cursor, but a good number of letters typed. Happens intermittently too. That's not a smily face I'm typing there! :duh:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/vidrazor/morejunk.png)
I'm going to have to say it's a Mac thing. :wink: I never have gotten along with Macs. Seriously though, I just booted this mac up that's beside me, taking up space only, and it's got FF 1.5.0.8 on it, currently updating to 1.5.0.9, and it doesn't have any of the problems that you describe. *shrugs* I'm not sure what to tell you.
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im also getting the critical error alot.
Everyone will be. It's not specific to anyone's computer here, it's a problem with the computer that the website is on.
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>>I'm going to have to say it's a Mac thing.<<
Well, yeah, definitely. I'm not seeing the text thing on my PC, and I doubt if I updated the older Firefox on the Mac that it would've made any difference (I went back to 2.x).
The only thing I'm experiencing on the PC side now (besides the intermittent phpBB : Critical Error) is no animated emoticons. The pages finish loading now, and text flows down the page layout. The emoticons play normally on the Mac, tho...
I notice if I right-click on the emoticons, I get this info:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/vidrazor/java.png)
Does that mean that these things are java, or is that just a java applet that loads an animated GIF? I can't figure out why only the beers emoticon animates and nobody else.
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Well, yeah, definitely. I'm not seeing the text thing on my PC, and I doubt if I updated the older Firefox on the Mac that it would've made any difference (I went back to 2.x).
That was mostly meant as a :stickpoke: thing. Personally, I don't think fruit belongs in the office. :wink:
The only thing I'm experiencing on the PC side now (besides the intermittent phpBB : Critical Error) is no animated emoticons. The pages finish loading now, and text flows down the page layout. The emoticons play normally on the Mac, tho...
I think you should just give them both a good whack. :)
I notice if I right-click on the emoticons, I get this info:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/vidrazor/java.png)
Does that mean that these things are java, or is that just a java applet that loads an animated GIF? I can't figure out why only the beers emoticon animates and nobody else.
I believe that java is only used to insert the smilie into the post. You could see if there's anything in your preferences about gifs? I have no idea why the beers icon works when the others don't.
Do the gifs on http://www.gifs.net work for you?
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>>I have no idea why the beers icon works when the others don't.<<
That's a mystery too, even though I've discovered the problem. Apparently it was some setting in my ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite software. I couldn't figure out what it was, so I just dumped the entire suite and installed the freebie firewall-only version ($50 in the trash :sad: ) Why the beers GIF worked and no others is still a mystery, tho...
Except for an occasional phpBB : Critical Error, everything is pretty much back to normal on my PC side of things.
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That's a mystery too, even though I've discovered the problem. Apparently it was some setting in my ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite software. I couldn't figure out what it was, so I just dumped the entire suite and installed the freebie firewall-only version ($50 in the trash :sad: ) Why the beers GIF worked and no others is still a mystery, tho...
Except for an occasional phpBB : Critical Error, everything is pretty much back to normal on my PC side of things.
ARGH! Friggin Zone Alarm! It causes so many phantom errors and problems. I wouldn't have thought to look there, but then, I didn't know you had it on the puter. :)
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Stormi's our Pitbull. Keep diggin, Stormigirl. Mo power to ya.
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Stormi's our Pitbull. Keep diggin, Stormigirl. Mo power to ya.
lol! Thanks... I think. :stickpoke:
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So I guess its just hit and miss for the future with log-on's and postings getting interrupted intermittently at any time to anyone. Sort of like my Sprint phone service Instead of dropped calls it will be dropped postings. Now I have to ctrl+c everything I am writing or responding to order to repost at a later time, photoshop avatars are especially difficult.
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So I guess its just hit and miss for the future with log-on's and postings getting interrupted intermittently at any time to anyone. Sort of like my Sprint phone service Instead of dropped calls it will be dropped postings. Now I have to ctrl+c everything I am writing or responding to order to repost at a later time, photoshop avatars are especially difficult.
It is til Pete can take care of the problem. He's the only one with access to the hosting company that's having the problems. :sad: I wish I could do something about it. I am however prepared to host the site temporarily should it go down completely.
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Holly Molly! I was depressed, I thought Bandit Alley was dead. I was ketting the critical error on the main page.
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ya I know, I can't spell for krap!