any problems with the upgrade?

[paul wheaton]

I would like any and all problems about the upgrade to be posted in this forum.
We'll use this place as the center to talk about these issues.

[Cindy Glass]

You mean aside from the server being down for a couple of hours?

[Cindy Glass]

Frank Carver is broken.
I was walking down the side of the Saloon Main Page, click on each Moderators name, which shows their profile, and adding them to my "buddy list". I got everybody loaded - except Frank.
Seems that he has a picture showing there that is mucking things up . The "Add to Buddy list" option is not available for him.
[ January 04, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]

[Frank Carver]

I replied to your original post, Cindy. I've taken the picture off, so could you please re-check to see if I am still "broken" ?

[paul wheaton]

Hmmm, Frank doesn't have a pic in his profile.
Can you give me an idea on how I might be able to experience the problem? (you must be using something I haven't tried yet)

[Cindy Glass]

Nope - you are still broken.
At the bottom of your profile where it says
"Note: Member ratings are not currently permitted on this message board. " across from it should have the "Block" and "Add" Buddy list options. I don't see that on your profile.
But ONLY yours.

[Thomas Paul]

It's very odd. I have the same problem that I can't make Frank my buddy.
Strangely, if I click on me, the option to add me to my buddy list is there (although it doesn't actually let me add myself). But for Frank this option isn't even there. Is there an option that Frank turned off somewhere?
Wait... I'll bet Frank has turned off the option to allow people to send him private messages!!! Since a buddy list is only meaningful in relation to private messages it would make sense to not allow Frank to be our buddy if he isn't accepting private messages.
[ January 04, 2002: Message edited by: Thomas Paul ]

[Frank Carver]

Ah! that'll be it. I can put the picture back, then.
I turned off the "private messages" option as a knee-jerk reaction to the stream of questions I already get by email which should better be asked in the forums. Maybe I could turn private messages back on and see how it goes.

[Thomas Paul]

Originally posted by Frank Carver:
I turned off the "private messages" option as a knee-jerk reaction to the stream of questions I already get by email which should better be asked in the forums. Maybe I could turn private messages back on and see how it goes.

I just delete e-mails that ask questions. I don't even do a "please post it in the forums".

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Hi,
The new look & feel is good. I don feel any problem so far as i have used such look & feel in other discussion forums earlier. Thanks that u did not change the emoticons....
Just wanna know who is a trailboss and how many so far, in brief?

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Paul Wheaton is the one and only trailboss.

[Ashik Uzzaman]

And so is there any chance for existing Sheriffs to be a Trailboss in future?....

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

I think not.

[paul wheaton]

"I think, therefore I am ..."
"I think not, therefore ... " ???
When Kathy ran the original JavaRanch, she called herself "the cowgirl". When she handed it over to me, I emphatically insisted that I did not want to be "the cowgirl". So Kathy said that she would be the cowgirl for life and I would be the trailboss.
I suppose it's possible that I could die and then Jim, Carl or Ajith could take the title. I suppose it's also possible that somebody could give me a bazillion dollars just so they could be the trailboss.
In looking into my crystal ball (more like a marble), I see me being the trailboss for a long time.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

I still cannot post a new topic, although I have no problem posting replies, managing the control panel, or any other thing I've tried around here since the upgrade. Obviously other people can start new topics. I wonder what the difference is

[paul wheaton]

I've asked the UBB folks to come here and take a look at this thread and help Marilyn.

[Kate Sloan]

Hi everybody,
Paul asked me to come take a look at the problems you guys are having since we performed the upgrade last week.
Let's keep this thread going - I want to hear every problem you're encountering. Also, when you have a problem doing something, can you please tell me how far into the process you get and what the result is. For instance, for those of you trying to post a new topic, are you receiving an error message or just a white page, and if so, at what point in the process?
If you notice that someone has already posted a problem you're encountering, just reference the post and note that you're having the same problem, so that we can avoid confusion.
Let's start here - Marilyn, when you try to post a new topic - what happens?
I look forward to working with you all on this, and appreciate any feedback you can give us.

[Kate Sloan]

Scratch that. Marilyn - is this what you're getting?

FYI
Sorry, UBB has encountered an unexpected, fatal error. This error is extremely abnormal. Please contact the board administration. The error text is:
Can't open /home/vhost1/www.javaranch.com/vroot/ubb/test.file: Permission denied
Here is the backtrace:
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:294 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::tracer
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:382 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:58 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open_file
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandler.cgi:116 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::new
Backtrace: ubb_lib_files.cgi:519 -> sub UBB::FileHandler: pen
Backtrace: ubb_new_topic.cgi:414 -> sub main::WriteFileAsString
Backtrace: ultimatebb.cgi:603 -> sub main::submit_new_topic
� Please use your browser's back button to return.

I know Paul has gotten this before. Can I have a quick show of hands from others who have seen this error when posting?

[Mapraputa Is]

I was trying to start a thread in "Moderators Only" forum a minute ago and got the same error message.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Yes, that is exactly the error I'm getting when I push the "Add New Topic" button.

[paul wheaton]

Kate, feel free to give yourself access to the MO forum with your other account.
I've been encouraging folks to start a new thread in this forum for each problem. Marilyn posted this problem in this thread because, well, she couldn't post!

[Cindy Glass]

I wrote Paul an e-mail about having this error. At the time I thought that it related to posting a raw link in the body, but when I couldn't even post a new thread to complain about not being able to post the raw link - I realized that it was more like a "starting a new topic" issue.
This went on for about an hour - under 2 different IDs, when SUDDENLY I could start a new topic with no problem - go figure. At no time was there a problem responding to an existing topic.

[Cindy Glass]

Well I still can not start a topic. Just tried today in MO and got the above (NOT very unusual) fatal error.
Sort of takes the fun out of forums. . . . Could explain the lack of discussion in MO :roll:

[paul wheaton]

I just found out I couldn't start a new thread here either.

[Cindy Glass]

Well I have tried a zillion times to start a new topic, so I am going to post the problem here.
Why is the formatting messed in this thread??
http://www.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=33&t=004428
[ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]

[Nasser Aboobaker]

Hi,
Well I did face the same problem yesterday for an hour, later I have managed to post my postings without problem.
Nasser

[Cindy Glass -]

Could explain the lack of new topics ALL OVER the Ranch

[Michael Ernest]

Originally posted by Kate Sloan:

Can't open /home/vhost1/www.javaranch.com/vroot/ubb/test.file: Permission denied
Here is the backtrace: ...
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I know Paul has gotten this before. Can I have a quick show of hands from others who have seen this error when posting?

Yo. Barked about it elsewhere in this forum, but since you're counting paws here...

[Cindy Glass]

OK a Third problem
1 - fatal errors creating new topic
2 - formatting errors and messups
3 - date displays on main page when backing up
I create a new window of IE, my main page is JavaRanch. It shows up fine, with date displays fine.
I go into a forum - say the JavaRanch forum. Then I back out for whatever reason (like say - I can't post a new topic anyway. . . ). The date and topic displays are not the ones that were just there. They seem to be a cached version of the main page from yesterday. I could recreate this 6 times in a variety of scenarios - all involving backing up. If you want I have a pretty picture saved of the main page showing yesterdays dates that I got served today :roll: .
Confused me for a bit until I figured out what was going on.
In the old release we NEVER had caching problems with the main page. It would update the counts and times, even when we had problems getting the topics to refresh.
[ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

How about if we concentrate on getting the problem with posting new subjects resolved first and then we can start new threads with all the other problems we're seeing. I have a few of my own to post. Otherwise everything will turn into a big jumbled up mess in this thread. :roll:

By the way, I've tried with a couple of different ID's as well just to rule out any interference from the "sheriff" title. I also tried to post a new topic here as an unregistered user with the same result.
[ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Marilyn deQueiroz ]

[Guy Allard]

I can't post anything new either ....
The 'permission denied' message ....
I would start by taking a look at the permission bits, owner, and group at -every- subdirectory level.
I'd also ask some high level questions like:
Was the unix OS on the server recently upgraded?
Was Perl recently upgraded?
Were any Perl packages recently upgraded?
Who else is running this level of UBB, and are they having problems?
I have seen some very strange display problems, but certainly low priority compared to no new posts.
G.

[Jade Davidson]

I can't post any new topics. I keep getting this error message:
Sorry, UBB has encountered an unexpected, fatal error. This error is extremely abnormal. Please contact the board administration. The error text is:
Can't open /home/vhost1/www.javaranch.com/vroot/ubb/test.file: Permission denied
Here is the backtrace:
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:294 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::tracer
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:382 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:58 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open_file
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandler.cgi:116 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::new
Backtrace: ubb_lib_files.cgi:519 -> sub UBB::FileHandler: pen
Backtrace: ubb_new_topic.cgi:414 -> sub main::WriteFileAsString
Backtrace: ultimatebb.cgi:603 -> sub main::submit_new_topic
� Please use your browser's back button to return.

[Ashik Uzzaman]

But we GreenHorns & RanchHands are not facing any problem....

[Pauline McNamara]

Originally posted by Kate Sloan:
Can I have a quick show of hands from others who have seen this error when posting?

same here

[Dave Vick]

Originally posted by Kate Sloan:
Can I have a quick show of hands from others who have seen this error when posting?

Me too - had the problem the first day after the upgrade then it went away - now its back.
Dave

[Thomas Paul]

I'm getting the "unusual" error too!

[Johannes de Jong]

I'm getting the error as well

[Matthew Phillips]

I am having the same new post problem, but I was able to post a new topic on Jan 4th.

[Lance Finney]

I've had the same problem as Kate Sloan when trying to post in the Cattle Drive.

[Angela Poynton]

I can't start a new Thread either ... this is getting really frustrating.
Can we have an update from our friends at infopop so we know how things are progressing?