Seti is down again

[Ghost0210]

Just managed to upload and report all my Seti tasks 
Just Beta left to do, but I guess they'll leave it down till Seti is up and running safely

[perryjay]

Uploads are running for me now but download servers appear to be off.

[_heinz]

My 8-core Xeon server is off since seti is down. I have a lot results to upload. I will switch on when upload and download servers are running normal.
No panic, I have time.

[hiamps]

Bet most of those that didn't will be increasing to 10 days. Still running.

[perryjay]

Well, I wonder what the boys are up to?  Almost noon there and the web pages are still down. Starting to get withdrawal symptoms!   

[Claggy]

Well, I wonder what the boys are up to?  Almost noon there and the web pages are still down. Starting to get withdrawal symptoms!   

Yesterday was worse, no Seti , Seti Beta or Lunatics.

Claggy

[Raistmer]

Anyone know what was with Lunatics site?

[Claggy]

Anyone know what was with Lunatics site?

Yes,

I emailed Toby Murray of kwsn yesterday, his replies were:

>>Yeah this is weird. It is complaining that one of the PHP functions
>> used in formatting the date/time strings for display is deprecated in
>> the version of PHP we are running now. I have no clue why it just
>> started throwing this error as we have been using the same version of
>> PHP since we moved to the new server in the middle of August.
>>
>> I can probably patch that function by hand here in a couple of hours
>> but I also kind of want to figure out why it suddenly flipped out.
>>
>> Toby

and:

>Well after looking at what the code was doing I fixed it by just
>changing the SMF code to call a different PHP function that performs
>the same operation. The website is back up but I'm still not sure why
>it broke and it is kind of freaking me out to be honest... Do you know
>if any SMF settings were changed by admins recently?
>
>Toby

Claggy

[perryjay]

And this from Rom Walton on BOINC Alpha mailing list...

Over the last few days we have been experiencing a website overload,
luckily we have a new replacement server available.

 

5pm EST we will be bringing down the Trac, MediaWiki, and Pootle
websites and begin migrating over all the content that is hosted on
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ to the new server.  All the various website
operations will be restored over the next couple of days.

 

Thanks for your understanding.

 

----- Rom

Better not be SETI's new server!!!!   

[Josef W. Segur]

...
Better not be SETI's new server!!!!   

LOL, that would really cause a major stir!  No chance, that new server probably hasn't been ordered yet. Arielle is back from a semester away so the "weekly" blog giving her interpretation of staff meetings is back at http://seti.berkeley.edu/?q=blog, and seems to indicate as of yesterday they were still considering details.

Meanwhile, they at least have mork back in running status so there would be data to support forums and such when they enable thinman.
                                                                                               Joe

[msattler]

Seti still offline tonight........
Still awaiting the boards to come back up to see if there is any response on my request for updated server specs...
Seems like Matt was kinda waffling on adding some of the things I had in my donation drive.
I understand that the staff is the final judge on what they think they do and don't need, but I hope that they take into account that some donations were based on the upgrades that I proposed.

We shall see....

Meow meow.

[hiamps]

Since all this downtime started I have noticed I look less and less often. At this rate I may not be looking at all in a month or so....This can't be good for keeping users.

[msattler]

Since all this downtime started I have noticed I look less and less often. At this rate I may not be looking at all in a month or so....This can't be good for keeping users.

Well, keep the faith, fellow Setizens.....
I AM hoping that the new server will add enough horsepower to the server stables that maybe at some point these 3 day outages will not be necessary to further the science.  Until the new server is in place and fully commissioned, with the additional server shuffling that will happen at that point, I expect we will have to continue to endure the outages.

[msattler]

And the forums are back ONLINE!!!

Meow!

[Frizz]

I was just wondering if the local code wizards (Joe, Jason, Raistmer, ...) ever considered contributing to setiquest.org ?

AFAIK they provide only the radio telescope data - the users are free to analyze this data with whatever algorithm they want. This would mean much less restrictions than what we have with MB and AP applications. No?

I am sure there would be a huge community willing to run KWSN applications crunching setiquest.org data.