Quick Thread by Jim Thomasson

[McRabbet]

I moved this thread to the Work Queue because it could not be opened. I'm not sure how to fix it. Jim posted a new one 2 minutes after he posted this one which produces an error.

Rob

 

[DaveO]

I saw that. I was going to delete it but it didn't have the thread tools button. It's good you moved it here Steve can check it out, and it was anoying coming up as unread, what a tease
Dave

I take that back it does have the thread tool button...there was nothing to delete.

 

[cskipper]

What did you move? What wouldn't open? Or has it already be taken care of?

 

[McRabbet]

What did you move? What wouldn't open? Or has it already be taken care of?

Cathy, It is a Closed Thread in this forum -- I could not post to it so I referenced it's title in this separate post. I'm hoping that Steve Coles will advise us how to fix a bad thread like this or let us know to just tell the user to re-post and we delete it. Jim just submitted a new Thread when this one failed -- I've PM'd him to let him know that we are looking at what caused the problem.

Rob

 

[SteveColes]

Sorry guys, before I do anything, I need to be sure what supposed to be there. Are there any posts that need to be recovered? Should I just delete it????

 

[McRabbet]

Steve -- this is a broken Thread that is not needed any more, because the originator made a new one. I simply moved it to the Work Queue as an exercise -- I guess we should just delete a bad thread like this and advise the member by PM if they have not created a new, working version. But suppose it was a multi-entry thread -- can it be fixed? And if so, how would one fix it (it behaves like broken code), or is that beyond our scope?

Rob

 

[SteveColes]

Interesting observation.
The time of the post corresponds to the time of about 16 DB error notifications sent to webmaster and the time you sent the message to yahoogroups. So a reasonable assumption is that the thread error and the DB errors are related. Which cause what? No proof, but educated guess is that there was a DB error and that casued the bad thread.:eusa_doh:

Here's what I did and any admin could do.
admincp->Maintenace->Repair/optimize Tables
Run twice. All looked good.
Back to board delete thread.

Good work Rob

 

[McRabbet]

Ironically, I never put those two events together, but now it makes sense.

From your answer, I assume that a bad thread just needs to be deleted; repair isn't really feasible. Rob

 

[SteveColes]

Ironically, I never put those two events together, but now it makes sense.

From your answer, I assume that a bad thread just needs to be deleted; repair isn't really feasible. Rob

Actually, repair is quite feasible but depending on the nature of the problem, could be a long and tedious process. That's why I wanted to know if there were posts that needed rescuing. If there had been, then I would I have gone into the control panel and used phpmysqladim to figure what was corrupted and fixed it there. But since there weren't and I was reasonably sure the rest of the DB was all right, it was just easier to do the delete.

 

[McRabbet]

Actually, repair is quite feasible but depending on the nature of the problem, could be a long and tedious process. That's why I wanted to know if there were posts that needed rescuing. If there had been, then I would I have gone into the control panel and used phpmysqladim to figure what was corrupted and fixed it there. But since there weren't and I was reasonably sure the rest of the DB was all right, it was just easier to do the delete.

Easy for you to say! My fluency in programming languages went out with Fortran, Basic and dBase -- I managed people fluent in C++, Visual Basic, SQL and Java -- much easier! I'll leave fixes like that you and the other pros on the team!!

Rob

 

[DaveO]

Well some how Jim managed to double post his thread about transporting the jointer from the ww'ing show. I deleted the second post. It had no replies. I went with the physically remove post vs. the leave a deletion note, because I saw no reason for folks to know the thread was deleted.

Dave