Author Topic: Blank page on "unread" posts  (Read 2648 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline miraculon

  • Sunrise Side Weather
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4107
  • KE8DAF
    • Sunrise Side Weather in Rogers City MI USA
Blank page on "unread" posts
« on: October 31, 2016, 12:50:39 PM »
I get a blank white page when I tried "http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0". I was seeing it on "http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?action=unread" earlier until there were no unread posts that I have read. I didn't have any in "new replies" and it lands on that page. Possibly this only happens when there are unread messages.

This is a new phenomenon. I have never seen this happen before. I checked with Comodo Ice Dragon (my normal browser), FireFox and "Edge" (latter day IE).

Greg H.


Blitzortung Stations #706 and #1682
CoCoRaHS: MI-PI-1
CWOP: CW4114 and KE8DAF-13
WU: KMIROGER7
Amateur Radio Callsign: KE8DAF

Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2016, 12:53:06 PM »
Yep.. I saw it too this morning.  I logged out, then logged in again and the blank screen was replaced with the unread-posts screen (with no post showing since I just logged in again).

I'll check the server logs to investigate what happened.
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline WeatherHost

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3649
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2016, 01:33:42 PM »
Ahh, so it's not just me.


Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2016, 01:55:41 PM »
I'm looking at the logs.. last successful unread was at 31/Oct/2016:10:48:43 (Eastern) and first unsuccessful unread was at 31/Oct/2016:10:50:40 (Eastern) so I'm focusing on what happened during that period.

I see some successful and some unsucessful (blank) entries in the logs after the 31/Oct/2016:10:50:40 time this morning.

Still scouring the logs...
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline WeatherHost

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3649
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2016, 02:59:06 PM »
Blank one just now.

Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2016, 04:35:23 PM »
So, the apache logs show nothing untoward that might cause the issue during that time period (posted above).
The forum error logs are also not indicating any exceptions that might cause the issue.  :(

We're running SMF 2.0.12 (current) on PHP 5.6.27.  The Sessions support is via files in /tmp (standard config for shared hosting).

All I can think of so far is something did a cleanup of the /tmp directory and removed the sessions files so there was no webserver-based info about prior sessions.  I'll look at the SMF code for 'action=unread' processing and see what I find.
It still remains a mystery as to the root cause...
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2016, 05:53:32 PM »
Its still going on Ken. Page is blank.
address is: http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?action=unread
Randy

Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2016, 05:57:53 PM »
You'll have to logoff, then logon again to reset it.  The old data about unread posts seems to be missing for users that have not logged in again.  Sorry..no way to restore the former state.
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2016, 06:09:02 PM »
Thanks that fixed it...
Randy

Offline Jáchym

  • Meteotemplate Developer
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 8605
    • Meteotemplate
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2016, 06:09:49 PM »
It never worked for me :D But I guess it is something to do with the cookies, the problem is that I log in from several computers. The only strange thing is that on the WD forum it works ok even if I use several computers.

Offline broadstairs

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 853
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2016, 07:16:01 PM »
Well I just logged off and on again, obviously no unread message but when I try the option which says  'Click here to try all unread topics' I then get a completely blank screen. I'm using Firefox on Linux if that matters. Same thing happens on Chromium on Linux.

Stuart

Edit Tuesday am, it now seems to be working OK.....
« Last Edit: November 01, 2016, 03:58:18 AM by broadstairs »
Ecowitt GW1003 with ultrasonic wind gauge, lightning sensor and PM2.5 sensor with Personal Weather Tablet as a console.

Offline miraculon

  • Sunrise Side Weather
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4107
  • KE8DAF
    • Sunrise Side Weather in Rogers City MI USA
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2016, 09:56:08 AM »
So far, so good. Seems to be OK now.

Greg H.


Blitzortung Stations #706 and #1682
CoCoRaHS: MI-PI-1
CWOP: CW4114 and KE8DAF-13
WU: KMIROGER7
Amateur Radio Callsign: KE8DAF

Offline nincehelser

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3337
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2016, 10:32:55 AM »
So far, so good. Seems to be OK now.

Greg H.

It's not working for me.  Do you need to log off or something?

Offline nincehelser

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3337
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2016, 10:34:35 AM »
It's working now.  I had to close and re-start my browser.

Offline WeatherHost

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3649
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2016, 11:01:25 AM »
Yeah, I did a browser restart for other reasons then came to see what would happen here enough though I didn't logoff and back on.  Working now, so it must be a session cookie issue.

 

Offline Jáchym

  • Meteotemplate Developer
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 8605
    • Meteotemplate
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2016, 05:29:24 PM »
It happens to me all the time, regardless of how many times I close the browser or which PC I use (home, office)

Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2016, 08:40:48 PM »
Jachym, I think the key is to logout then login again to clear the session cookie.

Since I did that once, it has not gone blank for me again.
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline Jáchym

  • Meteotemplate Developer
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 8605
    • Meteotemplate
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2016, 08:44:22 PM »
Hi Ken,
problem half-solved.
Now I see the page but when I click "All unread topics" it just throws a blank page.

Offline saratogaWX

  • Administrator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 9257
  • Saratoga, CA, USA Weather - free PHP scripts
    • Saratoga-Weather.org
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2016, 08:53:26 PM »
Logoff, clear wxforum.net cookies, log back in :)
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
Davis VP1+ FARS, Blitzortung RED, GRLevel3, WD, WL, VWS, Cumulus, Meteobridge
Free weather PHP scripts/website templates - update notifications on Twitter saratogaWXPHP

Offline Jáchym

  • Meteotemplate Developer
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 8605
    • Meteotemplate
Re: Blank page on "unread" posts
« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2016, 09:03:18 PM »
Did that... that solved the Show unread posts .... blank page issue, now I get it when I click the All unread topics

Not a big deal Ken, dont worry about it, its ok, just wanted to let you know