Octopus Overlords

If you are seeing this, we are on the temp server -- all traffic hitting that.

TTL is at half an hour so people should be trickling in again, keep in mind more maintenance coming as I rebuild the physical server and get us off the hourly charged server.

In the meantime report weirdness here, I expect that email will be borked for a bit until I get reverse lookups sorted.

What if I'm not seeing this?

I'm happy to report I'm getting email notifications and reverse lookup is squared away.. I'm pleasantly surprised so far. Doing a full backup and copy down to my local machine as we speak.. Once that's done, I will be nuking our physical server and starting to install ESX and then the host VM.

Thanks for all the tips guys, I would never have thought to install a hypervisor first -- that's going to make my life a lot easier in the future I think.

I could be completely out to lunch but will any of this fix the tapatalk login stuff? It's all greek to me

This may be the first time in my IT career, but I think I made the right call?

Server up on temp cloud server - great!

Reinstall physical server (ubuntu to test) things get ugly through install script...

I go do other things, hear my phone ding an hour later.. Server had a "fault", tech went and pulled the server, replaced the power supply and the server resumed...... We had a bad power supply, but didn't reboot! Yowza.

TL;DR We moved to a VM, physical reinstall failed due to bad power supply - we dodged a bullet.

Thank you.

I won't be doing a VM after all -- the only ESX template offered is ancient, and I don't want to deal with HyperV.. I'm pretty happy with the virtualmin process for recovery.

Thanks Fishy, where do we send the pizza in appreciation?

DD* wrote:Thanks Fishy, where do we send the pizza in appreciation?

For sure - we'll keep you in pizza for the next week!

These days I need less pizza, more kale. Please don't mail me kale, I don't like it even when it's fresh

I'm going to do a backup test to the original server and see how it goes. If all goes well, anticipate another outage this week.

FishPants wrote:These days I need less pizza, more kale. Please don't mail me kale, I don't like it even when it's fresh

I'm going to do a backup test to the original server and see how it goes. If all goes well, anticipate another outage this week.

Can you do it on Friday? I'm off that day, and will be planing SOD. so my browsing is shot anyways

Thanks so much! And now for a stupid question. Will Tapatalk go back to working once complete?

Enough wrote:Thanks so much! And now for a stupid question. Will Tapatalk go back to working once complete?

Works for me. Posting from Android version now.

iPhone checking in.

I still can't on my Android version; every time I go to log in I get a "network error". Not sure where I need to go from here.

WarPig wrote:I still can't on my Android version; every time I go to log in I get a "network error". Not sure where I need to go from here.

Same, I have also tried removing and re-adding OO to no avail. I guess my next step is a complete reinstall of Tapatalk.

I hardly ever use Tapatalk but I just tested it on my phone, works fine, didn't even ask me to re-login. Tapatalk version 6.5.5 on Galaxy S5.

What about you other guys that were having problems? Seems we have a couple of "it's working ok" reports.

TT working fine on my iPhone.

Still not working on Android for me. Network error. I've tried removing the OO subscription and re-adding, logging out of Tapatalk then re-adding, and clearing data completely on Tapatalk (ie reinstalling), then re-adding OO. Same behavior regardless. Have rebooted phone for effect, too.

Zaxxon wrote:Still not working on Android for me. Network error. I've tried removing the OO subscription and re-adding, logging out of Tapatalk then re-adding, and clearing data completely on Tapatalk (ie reinstalling), then re-adding OO. Same behavior regardless. Have rebooted phone for effect, too.

Ok I re-added the Tapatalk API key.. did that help any? It appeared to be blank in the config (odd, but whatever).

No dice. FWIW, the OO entry in Tapatalk (before logging in, where it gives you a summary of the forum) shows data current as of 4/28. So it appears that whatever happened that's affecting some of us probably happened on 4/28.

Zaxxon wrote:No dice. FWIW, the OO entry in Tapatalk (before logging in, where it gives you a summary of the forum) shows data current as of 4/28. So it appears that whatever happened that's affecting some of us probably happened on 4/28.

I turned the url back to http vs https in Tapatalk.. If that fixed it we can at least trace it back to the SSL cert. Let me know, otherwise I will open a case with Tapatalk.

I'm in now. I also just deleted data for the app again before trying that time, so I'm not 100% certain that your change to http fixed it, but that seems likely. Thanks!

Zaxxon wrote:I'm in now. I also just deleted data for the app again before trying that time, so I'm not 100% certain that your change to http fixed it, but that seems likely. Thanks!

At least I know what started it.. now I will open a case with that as the cause, and see what they say.

Zaxxon wrote:I'm in now. I also just deleted data for the app again before trying that time, so I'm not 100% certain that your change to http fixed it, but that seems likely. Thanks!

I submitted a ticket.. but I thought of something, I'm only supporting TLS1.0+ (SSL v2/v3 are not enabled). Wonder if your phone is old or the config doesn't have TLS enabled? That something you can check out?

I'm on a Pixel on the latest release of Android, so unlikely.

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Zaxxon wrote:I'm on a Pixel on the latest release of Android, so unlikely.

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Any chance you are using Adfree? Some folks online were mentioning a couple years ago that it would fix the connection error (had nothing to do with SSL tho):

directory.tapatalk.com

Add that to your whitelist which you manage through the Adfree web page.

No, no ad blockers in use on the phone. It's also stock and un-rooted.

Zaxxon wrote:No, no ad blockers in use on the phone. It's also stock and un-rooted.

Try going to the site using https:// in your browser on that phone please, see if it throws up an error.

No errors.

Ok I will leave SSL off in Tapatalk until they respond to the case (if they respond).

Fingers crossed.

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

FishPants wrote:

Zaxxon wrote:I'm in now. I also just deleted data for the app again before trying that time, so I'm not 100% certain that your change to http fixed it, but that seems likely. Thanks!

I submitted a ticket.. but I thought of something, I'm only supporting TLS1.0+ (SSL v2/v3 are not enabled). Wonder if your phone is old or the config doesn't have TLS enabled? That something you can check out?

It would have to be pretty ancient to not support TLS. Even 1.0 has been around a long while. Most browsers and sites are running 1.2.

edit: Wrote a bunch of crap, realized we were talking about an app and not a browser specifically, so removed it.

FYI. All afternoon I've been getting the following random error.: Using Chrome.
After a bit, I can refresh and the page comes up. My normal workflow:
Click the unread posts button, then open multiple topics I am interested in via new tabs.
Some of these tabs were getting the error, along with going to page 2 of the new posts.

Punisher wrote:FYI. All afternoon I've been getting the following random error.:

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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [2002]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

Using Chrome.
After a bit, I can refresh and the page comes up. My normal workflow:
Click the unread posts button, then open multiple topics I am interested in via new tabs.
Some of these tabs were getting the error, along with going to page 2 of the new posts.

Ya that's me I had some php scripts that needed updating. Should be all good for the time being, I'm cloning the database to another directory so I can test other board software without affecting this environment - as such posting/searching may take a tick or two longer.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Punisher wrote:FYI. All afternoon I've been getting the following random error.:

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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [2002]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

Using Chrome.
After a bit, I can refresh and the page comes up. My normal workflow:
Click the unread posts button, then open multiple topics I am interested in via new tabs.
Some of these tabs were getting the error, along with going to page 2 of the new posts.

ran into that once too, but I've been ok for the most part.

Just wanted to thank the folks in charge for all the due diligence and hard work you folks do to keep the lights on!

Everything in OO seems to be loading slowly for me. The rest of the internet is normal.