Site problems today?

[stephenkirsh]

I tried finding a relevant forum, but this was the closest I could find.

I post 95% of the time from the tapatalk app while I'm at work. I was having a lot of issues.

Initially it was saying "duplicate create/reply thread error." Sometimes my post would go through; sometimes it wouldn't.

I went to go make a thread about the issue, using tapatalk. I had it all typed out and then I got "The operation couldn't be completed tapatalk error 2203."

Another odd issue is that I'm not seeing any new posts in tapatalk. It shows the most recent post as from about 8 hours ago.

Anybody know what's up? Did something on the site change recently (hence why I picked this forum to put this thread in)?

[johnrando]

There were some problems today that should be fixed now.

[wsmeyer]

I was having the same problems this morning. I narrowed it down to the Timeline and Unread not working on Tapatalk and the New Posts not working on the desktop. It seems to be at least partially fixed now.

[gmurphy]

Had the same exact problem but I'm happy it's all cleared up!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[kayger12]

Evening ladies and gents.

The site suffered from a database table error today.

It was resolved by the server company.

We should be good.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

[gmurphy]

Evening ladies and gents.

The site suffered from a database table error today.

It was resolved by the server company.

We should be good.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Awesome thank you! It was quite around these parts this morning :) glad it's all back and running


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[kayger12]

Awesome thank you! It was quite around these parts this morning :) glad it's all back and running


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sure thing.

Unfortunately I had a crazy day at work today and was off the grid for awhile.

Sorry it took so long to get it resolved.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

[QC_ZHP]

Good stuff. Its working great now

[ELCID86]

Thanks for the update and Gettjng it resolved.


Thumbs, iPhone, Tapatalk.

[brettbimmer]

Bosses, thanks as always for your hard work behind the scenes!

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

[wsmeyer]

Bosses, thanks as always for your hard work behind the scenes!

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

+1

It's great how smoothly things run from our side.

[stephenkirsh]

Sure thing.

Unfortunately I had a crazy day at work today and was off the grid for awhile.

Sorry it took so long to get it resolved.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

No worries. I was just extra bored at work today :( lol

[bshovers]

My messages aren't coming through or taking a while. They come through on tapatalk but don't show up in my browser(Safari)

[johnrando]

Test on Safari. Working fine here.

[JKO_ZHP]

Was it a week or so ago? When the entire site was down and I was shown the error page that pops up that looks similar to the one you get when there's no internet.
Then today I couldn't post and when I tried again, it said I had already and that it was a duplicate. Glad to see that this has been fixed already though.

[danewilson77]

Sure thing.

Unfortunately I had a crazy day at work today and was off the grid for awhile.

Sorry it took so long to get it resolved.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

No worries KG. You did great, and we're patient. We're Family!!!

[kayger12]

Thanks for the update and Gettjng it resolved.



Bosses, thanks as always for your hard work behind the scenes!

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk


+1

It's great how smoothly things run from our side.

Anytime, gents. Again, we strive to make it a smooth experience here so days like yesterday are frustrating for us, especially when we're all off working our "real" jobs and can't attack things as quickly as we'd like.


No worries. I was just extra bored at work today :( lol

:rofl


My messages aren't coming through or taking a while. They come through on tapatalk but don't show up in my browser(Safari)

Tapatalk just updated their plugin *again* so make sure your app is up to date and that your cache is cleared. It seems that every time they upgrade their plugin it causes problems. They drive me nuts.


Was it a week or so ago? When the entire site was down and I was shown the error page that pops up that looks similar to the one you get when there's no internet.
Then today I couldn't post and when I tried again, it said I had already and that it was a duplicate. Glad to see that this has been fixed already though.

12 days prior to be exact. The new server that we moved to is faster and should offer a better experience but it seems that we're seeing a few of the break in problems as one of the early adopters to their brand new SSD server. We expressed our concerns to the server provider.


No worries KG. You did great, and we're patient. We're Family!!!

Appreciate that, Boss.

[Johnmadd]

Site is viewing like an archive on my browser

[TheFinanceGuy]

I had this issue yesterday, however, I at the top of the page I found a link that allowed me to view it like normal.

[Johnmadd]

Never mind, its just my browser :facepalm

[Vas]

I been getting a Database error yesterday (1/14) and today ( 1/15)

[fredo]

I got it yesterday and today in the morning. It's working fine for me now.

[Vas]

I got it yesterday and today in the morning. It's working fine for me now.

It has been happening on and off for me. And still is an issue.

[fredo]

Around 3 hours ago (12 pm CST) the site kicked me out. I needed to enter my ID and password again. Did that happen to you ?

[fredo]

I still get errors. I can't see my PM notifications and I could not edit my above post.

[WOLFN8TR]

Major errors while using Tapatalk all day.

[cakM3]

Evening ladies and gents.

The site suffered from a database table error today.

It was resolved by the server company.

We should be good.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Keith,

There are still issues with the site. I can't access most of the threads. If I try I get a database error notice. I can't even access either of my project threads……frustrating…..

[cakM3]

I'm getting this error…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7564/16101528240_6b53009d91.jpg

I'm posting again because I can't even edit my posts...

[SoDelBMW]

I'm getting this error…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7564/16101528240_6b53009d91.jpg

I'm posting again because I can't even edit my posts...

Same here

[Pip]

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7474/16101625108_598f09e4c7_h.jpg

[Pip]

BTW this is my submission for the photo contest. Couldn't get the car back on the road so had to get creative.

[cakM3]

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7474/16101625108_598f09e4c7_h.jpg

:like

[ELCID86]

Still.



Thumbs, iPhone, Tapatalk.

[cakM3]

Yep….hopefully whatever is affecting the Mafia site will be corrected soon…. not much we can do at this time….

[johnrando]

Yes, still being worked.

[danewilson77]

The latest:

Dane,

Upon further review, there appears to be an issue with the temporary file for the previously crashed table on your server.

"
zhpmafia_zhpforum.filedata
error : Can't create new tempfile: './zhpmafia_zhpforum/filedata.TMD'
status : Operation failed
"

I am attempting a different type of repair on this particular table at the moment, and I will update this ticket once that process has completed. In the interim, please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.


Thank you,

Keith W.
ServInt MST

"No flamesuit required"

[cakM3]

Looks like the issues I have been experiencing all day have been fixed :thumbsup

Thanks Dane!! :thumbsup

[danewilson77]

SERVINT is telling me the host of issues has been resolved. Let me know of any threads that do not behave properly.

Thanks for the patience fellas.

[Hornung418]

Was going through major withdrawl...

[danewilson77]

And now.....the rest of the story.

2015-01-15 17:01:26 EST

To ServInt SolidFire VPS customers,

Last night, January 15th, an unexpected service interruption occurred on our SolidFire platform during a scheduled maintenance that we reported would not be service affecting. For this interruption, we are extremely apologetic. We cannot say enough about how disappointed we are that anyone was affected by what was supposed to be a routine, live maintenance. We strive for all of our customers to see 100% uptime. When they do not, we investigate why and improve to make sure similar outages cannot occur in the future.

The scheduled maintenance was for the purpose of upgrading our Reston, VA SolidFire cluster to the next major system release. The maintenance was a routine update operation, being performed by SolidFire’s own staff. It was not supposed to have any impact on service. However, during the pre-upgrade process, one of the nodes in the cluster failed to reset properly. During the recovery from this failure, a second node in the cluster exited the cluster unexpectedly

This is the point where visible problems began for some of our customers, as those who were utilizing the exited node would not failover to new nodes and could no longer access the storage cluster. Because of the distribution of affected customers, we were ultimately forced to cold boot all SolidFire powered host nodes. Once we did this, all but two virtual environments (VEs) were brought back online. The two which failed were restored from backup.

In the end, the SolidFire cluster lost no data, but the unclean reboot of VEs caused several to experience data corruption when they ran filesystem checks. Customers experienced differing periods of downtime as a result of this event.

We will be working with SolidFire to determine exactly what happened and how to prevent it in the future. Once we do this, we will also determine what hardware, if any, needs to be replaced. We unequivocally do not want a repeat of this situation or anything like it.

As with any unexpected downtime, this disruption of service is covered by our Service Level Agreement. Customers who were impacted should file a support ticket requesting credit for the downtime they suffered.

Once again, we apologize profusely for the unplanned event. We are confident that we will solve the issue that resulted in the flawed maintenance and it will not be repeated.

Matthew Loschert
CTO, ServInt

[wsmeyer]

Hat's off to them for being forthcoming with an explanation of the problem.

[derbo]

Well that's a better informative email about what exactly happened.


Sent from iPad Mini

[Johnmadd]

Still having problems here.

[Vas]

Seems to be fine for me.

[danewilson77]

Still having problems here.
John,

Need update. What problems?

"No flamesuit required"

[Pip]

Just want to say thank you. Nice to have the mafia back up on Tapatalk.

[johnrando]

+1. Working fine here. Thanks for all your efforts Dane and Keith. And, thanks for your patience mafia family.

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

[derbo]

Thank you guys for following up with the service provider.

[danewilson77]

Pretty simple. Any of you guys see something amiss, just let me know (be as descriptive as possible), and we'll work through it.

:happyspidey

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

When I press the blue button to go to the my last read post in a thread it say invalid link.

[Johnmadd]

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc407/johnmadd1979/Screenshot_2015-01-16-08-31-49.png (http://s1210.photobucket.com/user/johnmadd1979/media/Screenshot_2015-01-16-08-31-49.png.html)

[johnrando]

Web or TT? I'm not getting that issue.

[wsmeyer]

Those markers might have been lost in the database repair.

[Johnmadd]

Web or TT? I'm not getting that issue.

Web. The only way I can get to a thread is by hitting the most recent post, I can't even select a page without gething the invalid message. :(

[danewilson77]

Web. The only way I can get to a thread is by hitting the most recent post, I can't even select a page without gething the invalid message. :(
Phone, or computer?

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

Phone, or computer?

"No flamesuit required"

Phone, samsung gs5.

[danewilson77]

Happens to me everyday. Cannot open some links from Tapatalk. I put in a trouble ticket and see what they say.

[danewilson77]

Trouble ticket submitted. We'll see if they can help with it, or if it is TT related.

[danewilson77]

Their reply:

Hi,

Troubleshooting something of this nature is outside the scope of our support. I suggest referring this issue to a web developer for help

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

This sucks, no offense.

[danewilson77]

This sucks, no offense.
Agree.

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

Agree.

"No flamesuit required"

Don't worry though, I'm not going anywhere. :)

[Johnmadd]

I still can't see the previous page :(

[danewilson77]

I still can't see the previous page :(
What previous page?

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

What previous page?

"No flamesuit required"

Any previous page in any thread. If I try to go to page 6 or 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 or 1 of this thread it gives me an error and to contact the administrator. I can't go to any previous page in any thread, only the page that is currently the latest :(

[danewilson77]

Right. Understood.

The friendliest forum on the planet.

[stephenkirsh]

Are we back to full operation?

[Johnmadd]

Are we back to full operation?

I'm not... I can't even use the search function. All I can do is look at the last post in each thread and whatever is on that page :( :( :(

[danewilson77]

I'm not... I can't even use the search function. All I can do is look at the last post in each thread and whatever is on that page :( :( :(
Web view or Tapatalk?

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

Web view or Tapatalk?

"No flamesuit required"

Web on phone... I don't like Tapatalk.

[ELCID86]

Web on phone... I don't like Tapatalk.

The new version blows.


Thumbs, iPhone, Tapatalk.

[danewilson77]

Ok. I will say use Tapatalk in your case. Learn to use it, or put in the effort to revert back to the original version of Tapatalk.

The smart phone Web issue won't be resolved very quickly.

Can anyone else with a non-S5 comment on Web functionality?

The friendliest forum on the planet.

[cakM3]

Ok. I will say use Tapatalk in your case. Learn to use it, or put in the effort to revert back to the original version of Tapatalk.

The smart phone Web issue won't be resolved very quickly.

Can anyone else with a non-S5 comment on Web functionality?

The friendliest forum on the planet.

This is what I ended up doing on my iPhone version of Tapatalk. I'm much happier now :)

[Johnmadd]

I don't like any version of Tapatalk.

[danewilson77]

Ok. Sorry. Not a huge fan either but I had to learn to like it to stay connected to you guys.

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

Unfortunately I understand. Can you bump the original post for how to revert to original Tapatalk?

[wsmeyer]

I'm using it right now with Safari on iOS. Seems to work fine.

[Johnmadd]

I'm using Chrome browser.

[wsmeyer]

When your using it on your phone and you click a link that errors, go up to the url box, click in that and copy the entire url it was trying to go to back here. Knowing what it's trying to do will certainly help find the cause.

[Johnmadd]

When your using it on your phone and you click a link that errors, go up to the url box, click in that and copy the entire url it was trying to go to back here. Knowing what it's trying to do will certainly help find the cause.

http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showthread.php?8740-Johnmadd-s-e30-Journey=&goto=newpost&highlight=johnmadd+journey

[wsmeyer]

http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showthread.php?8740-Johnmadd-s-e30-Journey=&goto=newpost&highlight=johnmadd+journey

Yeah that will never work.

This is the base URL:
http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showthread.php

a "?" then tells the server that variables are coming. Each one will have the format variablename=value and multiple variables will be separated by an "&" symbol.

These are fine here:

&goto=newpost&highlight=johnmadd+journey

they break down to

goto=newpost

and

highlight=johnmadd journey

But this first part:

8740-Johnmadd-s-e30-Journey=

is somehow getting scrambled.

[danewilson77]

Figured it out. It's an issue with Chrome. I just Uninstalled Chrome and installed Firefox. Works perfect. Problem solved.

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

Ok, i will install Firefox. I don't remember my password though... can you send it to me DW? Johnmadd1979@yahoo.com

[danewilson77]

Ok, i will install Firefox. I don't remember my password though... can you send it to me DW? Johnmadd1979@yahoo.com
Sent

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

I'm back baby! Thanks Dane.

[Johnmadd]

I had to try some different browsers until I found the "uc browser" the best. Problem solved, thanks wsmeyer.

[danewilson77]

What did you like about the uc browser vice Firefox?

"No flamesuit required"

[Johnmadd]

What did you like about the uc browser vice Firefox?

"No flamesuit required"
It's very fast and the format is very close to Chrome.

[danewilson77]

Copy. I'll give it a whirl.

The friendliest forum on the planet.

[stephenkirsh]

I don't like any version of Tapatalk.

We have a "tapatalk issues" thread going. In the very last post I link to their forum where they talk about a new redesign is coming in a few weeks. Maybe that'll be better for you?

With the latest update as an exception, tapatalk has improved a good amount over the year I've been using it.

[Johnmadd]

Copy. I'll give it a whirl.

The friendliest forum on the planet.

Given it a whirl yet? I really like it.

[danewilson77]

Yep. UC is a good browser.

"No flamesuit required"

[derbo]

anyone else getting this error?

I typed in LCM in the search bar..

and got this:

Warning: Declaration of vBForum_Item_SocialGroupMessage::getLoadQuery() should be compatible with that of vB_Model::getLoadQuery() in ..../packages/vbforum/item/socialgroupmessage.php on line 261

Warning: Declaration of vBForum_Item_SocialGroupDiscussion::getLoadQuery() should be compatible with that of vB_Model::getLoadQuery() in ..../packages/vbforum/item/socialgroupdiscussion.php on line 337

http://i.imgur.com/UwajJWY.png

[danewilson77]

I'll look into this tomorrow.

Thanks for the note.

"No flamesuit required"

[derbo]

I'll look into this tomorrow.

Thanks for the note.

"No flamesuit required"
Thanks Dane. It's not site breaking but just thought I note it.

sent from my phone

[johnrando]

Did not see that error but I wasn't live at that time on the site.

[danewilson77]

anyone else getting this error?

I typed in LCM in the search bar..

and got this:

Warning: Declaration of vBForum_Item_SocialGroupMessage::getLoadQuery() should be compatible with that of vB_Model::getLoadQuery() in ..../packages/vbforum/item/socialgroupmessage.php on line 261

Warning: Declaration of vBForum_Item_SocialGroupDiscussion::getLoadQuery() should be compatible with that of vB_Model::getLoadQuery() in ..../packages/vbforum/item/socialgroupdiscussion.php on line 337

http://i.imgur.com/UwajJWY.png
The response I received regarding this issue:


Hi,

This looks to be a vbulletin specific error which, according to the following forum post, will be resolved in version 4.2.3:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-4/vbulletin-4-questions-problems-and-troubleshooting/4000233-warning-declaration-of-vbforum_item_socialgroupmessage/page4

The suggestion to stop this from happening on the site at the moment is to add the following line to the /home/zhpmafia/public_html/forums/includes/config.php file:

define('SKIP_ALL_ERRORS', true);

I have added this line and the errors are no longer displaying.

"No flamesuit required"

[danewilson77]

I do not appear to be getting the warnings now.

"No flamesuit required"

[ELCID86]

As long as it worked!


Thumbs, iPhone, Tapatalk.

[Pip]

Did the site upgrade bring along a ton of ads to the non-mobile version? Or is my torrent computer infected? Seems like I cannot click on a new forum link without being redirected to some other site.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I just did some random searches. I didn't run across any ads.

Of course, I do not run this site, so I am not privy to all of the recent implementations (if any).

Dane will have to chime in for a definitive answer.

[TheFinanceGuy]

Did the site upgrade bring along a ton of ads to the non-mobile version? Or is my torrent computer infected? Seems like I cannot click on a new forum link without being redirected to some other site.

I don't get any pop ups/ads/unwanted stuffs when clicking on a link. Maybe you've got some mal-ware on the computer?

[Pip]

I don't get any pop ups/ads/unwanted stuffs when clicking on a link. Maybe you've got some mal-ware on the computer?
Yea most likely. Something about the specific malware doesn't like the mafia site. Either way I use mobile the majority of the time so no biggie. Not surprised a torrent computer has crap on it.

[johnrando]

I keep getting that "Ford Tough" ad on tapatalk which looks like another forum post.

[3ZHP]

This ford add has been permanently attached to my Tapatalk for weeks now!
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/11/0b743c31a751682d32e6fb33b74e37ad.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[danewilson77]

It's because you guys are using the free version of TT? It had ads I believe.

To my knowledge, the new site changes and upgrades did not affect advertisement.

[johnrando]

I have free and paid versions. Guess the one is the free version where I see that.

Sent from mobile

[Pip]

Yea I have that one as well but much less annoying than the malware thing going on with my PC

[anandoc]

Any ideas why I am getting a 403 error when I am trying to access the site on my laptop, yet it's working just fine on my phone?

This just started happening to me this morning at 6:30am est. Yes, I start my day by reading zhpmafia :)

EDIT: Ok, when I connect my laptop via my phone's hotspot internet connection, the site works again. Is it possible that my IP address somehow got blacklisted by this site?

[fredo]

Starting yesterday, I get this message at work at ZHPmafia.com :

"Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request"

Any recent changes on our ZHPmafia site ?

[Pip]

Starting yesterday, I get this message at work at ZHPmafia.com :

"Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request"

Any recent changes on our ZHPmafia site ?

Your work is blocking the site. You probably used it too much and they restrict. I imagine if you walk off site you'd immediately be able to visit. That or they have some protocol that isn't allowed. My work has the same thing.

[johnrando]

No problems that I've seen so maybe is it a work thing.

[anandoc]

Starting yesterday, I get this message at work at ZHPmafia.com :

"Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request"

Any recent changes on our ZHPmafia site ?

I had the same issue a little while ago. See my post right before yours (link (http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showthread.php?12231-Site-problems-today&p=436204#post436204)). For whatever reason zhpmafia.com was blocking my public IP address. I forced my modem to acquire a different IP (had to spoof a different MAC id and reboot the modem) and the problems went away.

[fredo]

Yeah. I still believe something changed on ZHPmafia.com ... I get a different message when going to a forbidden site. For example, CL gets me this at work:

"This page cannot be displayed. Based on your organization's access policies, access to this website has been blocked because the web category 'auctions' is not allowed."

[danewilson77]

Yeah. I still believe something changed on ZHPmafia.com ... I get a different message when going to a forbidden site. For example, CL gets me this at work:

"This page cannot be displayed. Based on your organization's access policies, access to this website has been blocked because the web category 'auctions' is not allowed."
Were you trying to access the site via your work ip address today?

S7 Edge, out

[danewilson77]

Yeah. I still believe something changed on ZHPmafia.com ... I get a different message when going to a forbidden site. For example, CL gets me this at work:

"This page cannot be displayed. Based on your organization's access policies, access to this website has been blocked because the web category 'auctions' is not allowed."
Fredo,

Be sure to email us at your next opportunity.

S7 Edge, out

[fredo]

Hi, Dane. The error shows at work. I sent you email with additional info. Thanks.

[danewilson77]

Hi, Dane. The error shows at work. I sent you email with additional info. Thanks.
Received your email. We'll continue to communicate via email on this issue.

S7 Edge, out