[Box-Admins] box4 is inaccessible

[David T. Lewis]

IIRC (based on information from Tobias???) it's a Seaside related issue
that has been fixed in some newer version of something or other. We should
probably take this discussion to squeak-dev.

Dave

> It’s just a bug. SS is just not converting wide strings to UTF-8.
>
> If you have time to move SS to a new image, sure. But otherwise, fixing
> this bug is probably less work.
>
> - Bert -
>
>> On 01.12.2015, at 16:40, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would a newer image and VM solve this?
>>
>> Why do we continue to run on this old image and VM?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:56 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com
>> <mailto:lewis at mail.msen.com>> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 12:42:33PM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> > That's probably because someone has registered with a name containing
>> wide
>> > characters, so the whole page is served as a WideString. This bug has
>> > happened a few times before, and I don't remember what the
>> > temporary solution was, but I think Dave knows.
>> >
>> > Levente
>>
>> That is probably it. Note that St??phane Rollandin (spfa) has just
>> registered
>> a new account. That is probably showing up on the source.squeak.org
>> <http://source.squeak.org/> home
>> page, and blowing up when the wide string is displayed.
>>
>> I see the same thing on squeaksource.com <http://squeaksource.com/> from
>> time to time. If we do
>> nothing, it will probably "fix" itself in a little while (after Stef's
>> activity becomes old news and scrolls off the home page).
>>
>> If the problem does not go away by itself, may need to fix it in the
>> source.squeak.org <http://source.squeak.org/> image, which involves
>> finding the offending WideString
>> and patching it to be displayable.
>>
>> The good news is that we are adding a more diverse range of developers
>> to source.squeak.org <http://source.squeak.org/> :-)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> >
>> > >source.squeak.org <http://source.squeak.org/> looks weird.
>> > >
>> > >- Bert -
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>On 01.12.2015, at 00:12, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu
>> <mailto:leves at elte.hu>> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>Thanks whoever requested the restart. The machine seems to have four
>> > >>times as much RAM as before. I've hopefully restarted all services.
>> > >>Should anything be missing, let me know!
>> > >>
>> > >>Levente
>> > >>
>> > >>On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>>Hi All,
>> > >>>
>> > >>>box4 seems to have been down since yesterday. Box3 is fine, so
>> hopefully
>> > >>>a restart will bring box4 back up.
>> > >>>The problem is that only the SFC has access to the box, and only
>> they
>> > >>>can request a restart.
>> > >>>So please ask them to do so.
>> > >>>
>> > >>>Thanks,
>> > >>>Levente
>> > >>>
>> > >
>> > >
>>
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