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Title: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on April 29, 2017, 10:45:11 AM
Is there a server emergency?  I noticed that all the threads seem to have new posts, even though I've read them - and then spotted that I am logged in as someone else !!!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: imagesfrugales on April 29, 2017, 11:40:15 AM
No problem here.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on April 29, 2017, 12:37:08 PM
On most pages you won't notice, but now on the Main Forum index page I'm logged in as Banana Legs.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Bryan on April 29, 2017, 01:09:42 PM
Sometimes it shows me logged in as Bryan which is correct, other times it shows it as Mike (happy forest).  Sometimes it shows me as not logged in. 
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Mike (happyforest) on April 29, 2017, 01:11:51 PM
Something is not right. I have logged in on the PC with a user name Kai-San, with loads of unread post. The iPad shows the correct see name and no unread posts.

Oh, Bryan appears to be logged is as me.

Mike

Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: chris667 on April 29, 2017, 01:31:58 PM
I'm Kai San as well.

Who is me?

Is it Spartacus?
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Bryan on April 29, 2017, 02:15:48 PM
Something is not right. I have logged in on the PC with a user name Kai-San, with loads of unread post. The iPad shows the correct see name and no unread posts.

Oh, Bryan appears to be logged is as me.

Mike

I'll try not to besmirch your good name while we wait for this to be fixed.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 02:40:46 PM
It just showed me as Bryan. Now I'm me again.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 02:43:03 PM
I think I'm in a time warp. My post isn't showing up and it keeps telling there are new posts when there aren't and I keep changing from me to Bryan and who the hell is Banana Legs anyway????
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 02:47:39 PM
Aargh!! Now I'm Chris667. If anyone finds my sole floating around the ether(net) please send it home.

Is anyone getting this?
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on April 29, 2017, 03:16:24 PM
I've been at least three people today, (four if you count me), but I think we are back again now.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: 02Pilot on April 29, 2017, 03:24:02 PM
This is worrying. I already have enough personalities floating around in my head and competing for primacy - I don't need more elbowing their way in from the internet muddying the waters further. But for the moment at least, I'm me. I think.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 29, 2017, 03:41:38 PM
I'm Sandeha. I'd better take some pictures fast, they'll be awesome!! :D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 03:47:15 PM
Now I'm Earljam in this thread and O2pilot on the main page.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Bryan on April 29, 2017, 03:50:37 PM
This is worrying. I already have enough personalities floating around in my head and competing for primacy - I don't need more elbowing their way in from the internet muddying the waters further. But for the moment at least, I'm me. I think.

I was just you, then I changed to Earljam and now I'm me again.  I seem to be myself when I post stuff.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Mike (happyforest) on April 29, 2017, 05:31:47 PM
Quote from: Bryan link=topic=9166.msg123680#msg123680 date=14934717487
I'll try not to besmirch your good name while we wait for this to be fixed.
[/quote

Thank you, Bryan, or whoever we are.

Mike or Kai San or whoever I reported to be presently!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Kai-san on April 29, 2017, 05:48:20 PM
I have been PeterR, Earljam and 02Pilot. I tried to log out earlier, but was rejected. Just for the record, MY MAILBOX IS NOT FULL OF UNREAD MAIL!!  ;D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Late Developer on April 29, 2017, 06:39:03 PM
I clicked on the site this morning (not logged in) but it certainly looked as if I was logged in - but couldn't log out.  Something is definitely not right with the site.  Very weird and needs sorting.....
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on April 29, 2017, 07:04:04 PM
I clicked on the site this morning (not logged in) but it certainly looked as if I was logged in - but couldn't log out.  Something is definitely not right with the site.  Very weird and needs sorting.....

That's probably because I was you this morning, but only until I became Banana Legs.  (And who the f*** is Banana Legs anyway?)
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: thatguychad on April 29, 2017, 07:18:15 PM
I'm Sandeha. I'd better take some pictures fast, they'll be awesome!! :D

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Late Developer on April 29, 2017, 07:37:31 PM
I clicked on the site this morning (not logged in) but it certainly looked as if I was logged in - but couldn't log out.  Something is definitely not right with the site.  Very weird and needs sorting.....

(And who the f*** is Banana Legs anyway?)

Dunno, Sandeha but it wins my vote for the most surreal name of any FWer I've encountered to-date  8)
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 29, 2017, 08:15:12 PM
It just showed me as Bryan. Now I'm me again.

I'm Brian, and so is my wife!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on April 29, 2017, 09:10:26 PM
I'm Sandeha. I'd better take some pictures fast, they'll be awesome!! :D

And now I'm you, Satish.  The awesomeness is doubling by the minute!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 10:19:34 PM
Hi, I'm Becky.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 29, 2017, 10:21:10 PM
I have been PeterR,

So what does it feel like to you to have just turned 60 years old? Because I'm bloody depressed about it.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Francois on April 29, 2017, 10:21:46 PM
Hi, I'm Becky.
I always knew you wanted to get in touch with your feminine side ;)

I've been PeterR and 02Pilot....
But as long as the messages don't get wrongly posted...
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Francois on April 29, 2017, 10:24:01 PM
And now my last message doesn't show anymore...
I'm emailing Ed!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Ed Wenn on April 29, 2017, 11:10:38 PM
Hi everyone, I have no idea WTF is going on with the site, but I would like to apologise for the confusion that's being caused. I have logged on and run all of the standard admin tasks as well as updated the forum software to the latest version.

I notice that when I access the forum from a new PC (and don't log in) I am automatically allocated the username for Peter R, or Sandeha, or Astrobeck. If I then click Logout and then attempt to login as myself things do eventually seem to work, but it's a bit of a strange one. I'm not going to have much time to dedicate to this until Tuesday as I'm travelling over the UK Bank Holiday weekend. Grr!

I'll do some Googling and see if this is a known problem with SMF (Simple Machines Forums).

Thanks to Francois for emailing me and alerting me to the problem.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Ed Wenn on April 29, 2017, 11:11:35 PM
Test
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: John Robison on April 30, 2017, 02:03:49 AM
Ok, just logged in, shows as me, lets see what happens as I press post.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: GrainTrain on April 30, 2017, 05:21:47 AM
Looks like I'm Indofunk today, better not try to develop anything or I might fall asleep...
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: GrainTrain on April 30, 2017, 05:25:29 AM
Looks like I'm Indofunk today, better not try to develop anything or I might fall asleep...
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Pete_R on April 30, 2017, 11:47:05 AM
Is there an echo in here?

Can I also add to the confusion by pointing out that the thread about pinhole day that I started now seems to be ordered with newest posts first rather than newest posts last (well it does for for me while pretending to be Becky).
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Kai-san on April 30, 2017, 02:01:49 PM
I have been PeterR,

So what does it feel like to you to have just turned 60 years old? Because I'm bloody depressed about it.

I didn't feel a thing since I'm older than you, I suppose I have entered a state of numbness.  ;D
I'm making plans as if I was to reach 150 and I never look back, that works most of the time. Our days are numbered anyway so one has to make the best of it, especially with a future ruled by maniacs with a red button to push. (Now if that didn't cheer you up I don't know what will. ;D )
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 30, 2017, 05:10:24 PM
I notice that when I access the forum from a new PC (and don't log in) I am automatically allocated the username for Peter R, or Sandeha, or Astrobeck. If I then click Logout and then attempt to login as myself things do eventually seem to work, but it's a bit of a strange one. I'm not going to have much time to dedicate to this until Tuesday as I'm travelling over the UK Bank Holiday weekend. Grr!

I tried logging out and logging back in, first of all it wouldn't let me log out because the login token was mine, but it thought I was logged in as KevinAllan. Once I threw my laptop against the wall it seemed to finally log me out. Then when I tried to log back in as me, it didn't accept my password (I use a password manager, so I'm fairly certain it was the right password). I used the reset password email (luckily, the email came to me, I was afraid it would go to a random user :D ), and I'm able to log in, but it still shows me as KevinAllan. Well, at least for now ;D

Thanks for looking into this, Ed. If a simple software update didn't solve it, then it may be something a fair bit more complex. I remember a similar thing happening on an ecommerce site I managed, and it turned out the problem was that I used a "=" in my php code where there should have been an "==". I can't see SMF screwing up something like that though :D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 30, 2017, 05:12:17 PM
Looks like I'm Indofunk today, better not try to develop anything or I might fall asleep...

Ok, this is funny :D :D :D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: imagesfrugales on April 30, 2017, 06:02:31 PM
Despite of all the chaos posting seems to work under the right names?
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Kai-san on April 30, 2017, 06:25:00 PM
I think it's time to quote Ozzy Osbourne here: "I'm so confused".
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Domingo A. Siliceo on April 30, 2017, 07:31:47 PM
If I go to "My Messages", sometimes I'm logged as François and can see his mailbox and his messages. This is bad for sure.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Aksel on April 30, 2017, 07:46:40 PM
I have been PeterR, Earljam and 02Pilot. I tried to log out earlier, but was rejected. Just for the record, MY MAILBOX IS NOT FULL OF UNREAD MAIL!!  ;D

I used to be you but now I`m me.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 30, 2017, 08:55:55 PM
So, I left to develop some film (and did NOT fall asleep! ;D ) and now it seems I am back to being me consistently. Are other people still having problems?
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on April 30, 2017, 08:57:24 PM
I spoke too soon ... I am still me, but I'm not seeing the most recent posts, even after refreshing. It's nice to be me again though :)
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Late Developer on April 30, 2017, 11:34:30 PM
Apparently, I'm Klaus.  Nothing against Klaus - bit I just want to be me again.....
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Late Developer on April 30, 2017, 11:35:56 PM
Oh, FFS...! I was Klaus, posted and the post isn't even showing.  Nothing against Klaus but I just want to be me again......
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: MiguelCampano on May 01, 2017, 02:16:27 AM
I've been Jharr and Klaus in the past 2 minutes  ;D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: astrobeck on May 01, 2017, 03:05:50 AM
I finally got to log in, but it took a couple of refreshes.

so far I have been imagesfrugales and macaron
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: SLVR on May 01, 2017, 03:10:20 AM
I was just Miguel Campano
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: macfred on May 01, 2017, 03:46:54 AM
In this thread I'm 02Pilot ...
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: GrainTrain on May 01, 2017, 05:36:24 AM
I spoke too soon ...

Thought you were going to say you fell asleep  ;)  On a more serious note, I am no longer having issues logging in!
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Adam Doe on May 01, 2017, 03:22:24 PM
I've been different people each day, which is fine as I was getting bored being me.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: MacArron on May 01, 2017, 08:27:09 PM
I think I am me know, but yesterday I could see others private messages (Domingo, I think became you for a while...)  :)
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: MacArron on May 01, 2017, 08:29:11 PM
My post did not appear, I tried to post again and now it is there  ??? And it said I am astrobeck  :-\ I'll try to get the best of all of you while under repair  :D
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: MacArron on May 01, 2017, 08:53:24 PM
I logged out, deleted caches and logged in again and it does not work  >:(
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Francois on May 01, 2017, 09:12:29 PM
At least you could log back in!
I discovered that clicking to see the new links logs me out... unless it's my cache acting-up.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Indofunk on May 02, 2017, 12:56:03 AM
Things have gotten quite a bit worse for me ... now more often than not I am NOBODY. Not only does that send me into all sorts of existential crises, it means I can't reply to any thread. I don't know how I finally got to be able to write this post, but I've been trying for the last 1/2 hour  :-\
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: astrobeck on May 02, 2017, 02:54:31 AM
The database is corrupt...
im me right now, but who knows how long that will be...
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Late Developer on May 02, 2017, 06:19:25 AM
Things have gotten quite a bit worse for me ... now more often than not I am NOBODY. Not only does that send me into all sorts of existential crises, it means I can't reply to any thread. I don't know how I finally got to be able to write this post, but I've been trying for the last 1/2 hour  :-\

Yep, as with Indofunk, aside from having multiple (and sometimes no) personalities  :o I've struggled to post things or, when I have, they haven't shown up.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Ed Wenn on May 02, 2017, 11:22:44 AM
The database is corrupt...

Hi Becky, the forum database is not corrupt. We have a caching problem that seems to be affecting a lot of other Websites around the world and is likely to do with some software called Varnish that a lot of web hosts use to help increase performance on their customers' sites. I've been away for the weekend, but am back now and will be contacting Bluehost (the company who we pay to host Filmwasters) when I get home this evening.

If you do a hard refresh on a page (that's SHIFT + F5 on a PC) then it should show you the page as it really is (i.e. including all the latest posts) and you should be yourself. I've been doing this here all morning and it works almost every time.
Title: Re: Server Emergency ???
Post by: Ed Wenn on May 02, 2017, 11:24:27 AM
Hi All, I'm locking this thread for now so that people can use the pinned thread on this subject instead. It's useful to get feedback on the issues people are experiencing, but it's simpler to have them all in one place.