[Box-Admins] Re: box4 is inaccessible

[Levente Uzonyi]

You were the one who set up a newer image with Magma backend on box4, 
though that image hasn't synchronized the list of users, so it's web 
interface still works. I assume, it would break, too.

Levente

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Chris Muller 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> 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 home
>       page, and blowing up when the wide string is displayed.
>
>       I see the same thing on 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 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 :-)
>
>       Dave
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>       >
>       > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>       >
>       > >source.squeak.org looks weird.
>       > >
>       > >- Bert -
>       > >
>       > >
>       > >
>       > >>On 01.12.2015, at 00:12, Levente Uzonyi <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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