Super-Fast Auto Refresh - Wow!!!

[cdcollura]

Good day everyone,

The only way to post this was to hut the red "X" stop button on my browser!

Anyone noticed that when ona thread the screen refreshes (web page reloads) like once a second?

I noticed this in the PM area and writing a thread like this.

In many cases, there is no "submit" button either ;-)

Chris Collura - KG4PJN

[Karen Politte]

I noticed this this morning too - it appears to have been a glitch in the system as everything seems to be functioning normally now. When I tried to log in around 7am this morning, I could get the front page just fine, but the minute I clicked on W&C or EE or whatever it just kept bringing up the banner and blank page and then refreshing and refreshing and refreshing. At least it woke me up.KL

[Karen Politte]

Well - saying that it appears that there are still some bugs, because now I cannot edit my post above. It has some strange HTML in my post when I try and edit it - and I get windows error symbol for the page down in my taskbar when I try and save my edits. This strange HTML is also appearing in the PM'ing function. Looks like we have some bugs flying around.KL

[David Drummond]

I think it's a bad google ad. Every once in a while one gets in there that fubars things up. Usually google corrects those soon.

[James Hammett]

Something changed - Quick Links no longer brings up a vertical DHTML menu. It adds 'nojs=1#usercptools' in the address bar and refreshes the page. The menu then shows up horizontally but doesn't have the Today's Posts link that I use almost every day. Was there an automatic update of some sort? It seems to think javascript should be disabled (nojs=1).

[James Hammett]

FYI, I just opened it up in Internet Explorer (I normally use Firefox) and it did the super-fast-page-refresh thing until I hit the stop button. The Quick Links link doesn't respond at all - just gives a javascript error.

[James Hammett]

I think it's a bad google ad. Every once in a while one gets in there that fubars things up. Usually google corrects those soon.

I think you may be right - Internet Explorer which is having the most problems with this isn't showing the google ad at all.

[David Drummond]

I notice on my own site once in a while a bad google ad gets in there and won't let the rest of my php based site load. I can usually tell by Firefox showing down at the bottom what it's contacting to load and it's always the google syndicate address. I haven't changed anything on the forum software, although it's due for an upgrade.

[Karen Politte]

If it is a Google ad it's really bad. I haven't been able to get on to ST because of it since about 11.30am. I can't edit posts, and I can't post pictures, either. Like everyone else says - it's seemingly affecting the java/php based aspects of the site. Let's hope Google quits running the ad asap.KL

[David Drummond]

Maybe it's something locally with your browser Karen. I have been on and off the forums all day and haven't seen a thing, and have noted a lot of people coming and going. If it's still continually affecting you all day, it has to be something of a more "local to you" nature. FYI, I normally run Firefox but just ran through it with IE and couldn't duplicate anything wrong.

[Jeff Snyder]

Karen,Try clearing your cookies (at least the ones from Stormtrack.org). I've been on ST several times today using FF and IE, and I haven't been able to replicate your problem (and the problems that others seem to be having)... All works fine on my end with FF and IE (and Vista, but that shouldn't matter too much).

[MatthewCarman]

Seems the auto refresh removes the submit reply button if you do not press stop in your toolbar. I have had this problem all day. Will try clearing some cookies as I still have the problem.

[Dick McGowan]

I can't type paragraphs, and when I used quotations, it would do this " " BTW, this thread is almost at 1,000 hits just for today.........are you guys hitting refresh over and over???! ;)

[James Hammett]

Still doing it for me and in fact its getting worse. Even the pictures along the right side of the main page ( stormtrack.org ) are corrupted - no google ad there! Cleared cookies, cleared temp files, hard refresh, different computers, different networks (though same ISP, Qwest). Firebug (a debugger for Firefox) lists dozens of javascript errors and none of them are related to google ads. I was going to post several screenshots showing the problems but I can't use the WYSIWYG image insertion stuff - it's all disabled. Here, try these:

http://tornadodreams.com/Image1.png (corrupted images)
http://tornadodreams.com/Image2.png (pairs of down-arrows in the menu bars)
http://tornadodreams.com/Image3.png (the entire thread displayed twice)
http://tornadodreams.com/Image4.png (actually, three times w/corruption)
http://tornadodreams.com/Image5.png (more corruption at the bottom)

[Jeff Snyder]

Try to double-click that yellow "yield"-looking sign on the lower-left part of Internet Explorer. For example, on the very lower-left part of that second image, there's a yellow yield icon next to "Error on page". IIRC, that icon pops up when there is, typically, a javascript error on the page. I imagine that info may be helpful when trying to figure this out. EDIT: For the first time tonight, things are getting a little goofy for me as well. When I try to edit my post, the special marks (quote marks, apostrophes, etc) are replaced with character codes.

[David Drummond]

I'll have a hard time fixing this if I can't duplicate it, which so far I haven't been able to. If it's still doing it to some people tomorrow I might put in for a server reboot in case something got wonky. It almost sounds as if not all of the php code for a given callout isn't completely loading.

[David Drummond]

Well, something is definitely wrong. Problem is that it's not giving up any clues as to what it is. I just tried to access the admin area of vbulletin and nothing in there is working for me. I am going to ahead and put in for a reboot of the server just to clear out any gremlins and go from there.

[David Drummond]

Ok I just put in for the reboot. I don't know exactly when they will do it, but of course the forum will be down for a short time when it does reboot.

[MatthewCarman]

I cleared my cookies but the problem seems to be worse. I guess I will take a break from ST untill the mods can fix the problem.

[Dave Gallaher]

I've been having the same problem for two days--this is the first opportunity to post a response that I've had, by stopping the load with the X.

[Jay Cazel]

Daivd, I don't know if this well help, but I have both IE6 and IE7 and it only does it on IE6. I got on this morning with both and it is only doing it with IE6.Jay

[James Hammett]

I cleared my cookies but the problem seems to be worse.

Which makes sense, because the older cached data won't be corrupted since everything used to be fine. Is anyone else seeing the corrupted images on the main page?

http://stormtrack.org/clip24apr07.jpg
http://stormtrack.org/070413rad.jpg

That's very telling to me because those are individual image files that seem to be corrupted. They show up that way in Opera, Firefox, and IE 5.01, 5.5, 6, and 7. David, try downloading those images off the server via SSH or something to rule out network mangling. If they're still corrupted locally, I'd suspect its the data on the hard drive(s) getting corrupted.

[David Drummond]

Thanks for catching that on the images. I have been concentrating on the forum problems and hadn't seen that. I noted a few images throughout the site doing that. Looks like what I a probably will do after while is take down the forum, do a clean install of the newer version and put the database back in it. I got a backup of it last night and will try and get a newer backup just before doing it so hopefully we won't lose anything. I'll put an announcement up on the main page when I start to do all of this. It may take a while to import the database back in, as it's rather large.

[Karen Politte]

Heck - I'm just glad to see that I am not, in fact, going insane!

So......dare I ask...are we back up?? The tagbs above the post window here (i.e. insert link, insert picture, bold, italics etc.) are all working......they weren't back with the problems we were having.

Oh yeah......and couldn't we at least have had Pac-Man or something? :D

KL

[Doug Lee]

Well, I'm glad it's fixed! :)

For a while there it started to remind me of the psychededlic 60's! :D

Good job Dave!

[Dave Gallaher]

Thanks for detective work and labor, Dave--

[David Drummond]

Well, I thought about putting up a game Karen, but with 36,000 pages of mysql code ahead of me to sort through, I figured you guys would rather I spend that time getting the forum back up. :)