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Title: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 29, 2017, 09:02:57 PM
Send an e-mail to admin@bmwr65.org if you get the following error message:

Something bad has happened. Please inform the Admin of this forum of what you were doing when this error occurred.

Not sure what is going on but two users are generating this error and looking at their config files shows one of them hosed...  If you contact me I can get some info from you and recreate...
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Bob_Roller on August 30, 2017, 10:51:42 AM
Is one of the effected members Barry ?

Shows him as an ex-member .

Also an odd new member, bhodgson, been member for 17408 days .
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: wilcom on August 30, 2017, 10:56:37 AM
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Is one of the effected members Barry ?

Shows him as an ex-member .

I hope it's a glitch! Would hate to see Barry leave us!!!

Like my wife says. " smart guys are hard to come by". She should know, says she has, "been look'n for years" :P
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: BPT on August 30, 2017, 11:12:38 AM
I mentioned this a few weeks back during some of the forum problems.  I've gotten it again a few times this last week. Maybe completely unrelated but I did find I had a screenshot shot.

It almost looks like a sad face sitting in the file....?
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 12:38:46 PM
bhogsdon and oconner are the two that have shown up in the error log but I can't fix them unless I hear from them...
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Bob_Roller on August 30, 2017, 12:52:28 PM
A hacker / spammer get loose on the forum ??
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 06:49:08 PM
According to YABB codex the file that got hammered is usually caused by a server glitch.  The codex indicated that if there was a hiccup on the server while this file was open it often gets zeroed out.  I can copy a file from a different user and modify it but I need the people to contact me so I can e-mail them a new password.
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 07:48:53 PM
I was able to pull their user data files from the last backup.  I looked for other 0 byte files and found none so this would not be what happened to Barry.  Does anybody know what his screen name was?
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 08:00:26 PM
Strange, I don't show Barry to be an ex-member...

Bob, where did you see him as an ex-member?
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: BPT on August 30, 2017, 08:07:36 PM
Tunnelrider mentioned it in a post and I also see it wherever I see his name.
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: BPT on August 30, 2017, 08:11:05 PM
Ok, Justin, I take that back.  I just looked and Barry's status is back to normal now. But I think even this morning it was still showing him as an Ex Member. And it blacked him out, you couldn't click on his name or anything.
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: wilcom on August 30, 2017, 08:30:09 PM
any thread that he was on showed him as an X-member and when I went to the member list by name ... he wasn't listed,,,,,,,,,, that was last night or this morning
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 08:31:01 PM
Interesting, when I checked a little while ago everything looked OK.
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 30, 2017, 08:39:42 PM
Heh, funny stuff...

bhodgson IS Barry and I didn't look at his account until after I restored a data file.  That explains much...
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on August 31, 2017, 12:17:24 AM
I would have bet five quid that bhodgson was Barry's name. :)
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Barry on August 31, 2017, 10:22:08 AM
That's me alright.

What did I do ?

I've had that error page several times last night and this morning when trying to access the forum. Then just now it's started to work OK.

Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 31, 2017, 01:04:19 PM
Your config file got hosed so I had to get one from a backup.  Sorry...
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Barry on August 31, 2017, 03:44:11 PM
OK

Thanks Justin
Title: Re: If Anybody Gets This Strange Error...
Post by: Justin B. on August 31, 2017, 09:02:29 PM
Nothing personal, ya understand?  ;)