[Box-Admins] box4 is inaccessible

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Dec 1 19:13:34 UTC 2015


On 01.12.2015, at 20:05, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm innocent. Or at least I don't know off head the problem at hand, 
save the solution…

Best regards
	-Tobias

> 
> 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 -
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> <mailto:leves at elte.hu>> wrote:
>>> hopefully
>>> they




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