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Title: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: ForceField on June 28, 2012, 01:58:35 PM When trying to access bitcointalk.org today, the following error message was displayed on a blank white page:
"Table './bitcoin/smf_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired" Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: Grouver (BtcBalance) on June 28, 2012, 02:00:07 PM Got an "Got error 134 from storage engine" message.
So I assume the database crashed or was full? Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: davout on June 28, 2012, 02:09:49 PM Usually happens to MySQL when the partition it sits on is full.
Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: John (John K.) on June 28, 2012, 02:14:48 PM Who brought it back online? theymos is off IIRC.
Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: Maged on June 28, 2012, 02:55:46 PM Who brought it back online? theymos is off IIRC. Most likely it was Mark (MagicalTux).Also, based on when the posts stopped, we either reverted to a DB backup, or this was the result of the backup. I don't have a tracker watching when the forum is down (since I can't do anything anyway), so I don't know which it was. Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 28, 2012, 04:53:16 PM With current traffic exceeding two million page views per week, this forum is getting quite a workout!
Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: ForceField on June 29, 2012, 02:55:53 AM Site was down again at 10:54PM EST. New error message:
"Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later." Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: John (John K.) on June 29, 2012, 02:57:40 AM I got another one:
Quote Database Error: Query execution was interrupted File: /var/www/bitcoin/smf/Sources/BoardIndex.php Line: 84Database Error: MySQL server has gone away File: /var/www/bitcoin/smf/Sources/Load.php Line: 2040 Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: pirateat40 on June 29, 2012, 03:06:17 AM From what I've gathered, Maged slipped on a stale hot pocket (pepperoni) and spilled his Malava Novocaine drink all over the back of the server. It just needed to dry out a bit before the system came back up.
Warning! Smoke signals are often mistranslated. Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: theymos on June 29, 2012, 04:01:13 AM I have a guess about what caused all of the problems today. While writing watchlist.php today, I ran an SQL query that seemed to really confuse MySQL. It was something like this:
Code: select t.ID_TOPIC as ID_TOPIC, t.ID_BOARD as ID_BOARD, I believe it was the ON (t.ID_TOPIC = t.ID_TOPIC) part that caused problems. (This isn't actually what I wanted to do -- I meant to compare ID_TOPIC in two different tables.) I think this query caused the database to lock up completely and refuse all connections, even after I stopped loading the page which ran this query. Maybe it also created huge temporary files which caused the other problems -- I didn't notice. Title: Re: What happened to bitcointalk.org today? Crashed? Hacked? Post by: apetersson on June 29, 2012, 08:00:18 AM Quote from: irc [01:27] yellowhat theymos: are you sure its not a self-dos due to new addons (maybe badly written) addons? [01:29] yellowhat is the source available? I could review the sql maybe [01:30] yellowhat maybe its doing something dumb as querying without index or anything /pats myself on back for remote debugging ninja-senses ;D |