[Important!] Fatal errors

Everyone gets those. they're the minor crashes. Annoying, but it seems harmless. FATAL is always alarming when it pops up, isn't it?

Well I still need to be able to edit that page! *sigh* Guess I'll wait 'till Jason is on...

EDIT: Where did my thread go? And why did my thread turn into a post on THIS thread? I kept my thread's name, but that's all, WHAT THE HELL!? Now it's saying that some other person made this thread, and now there are several posts that just suddenly popped up here? WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!?

ZU has been so screwy for me these last few days.

This is insane... it FUSED our threads together?

Mods saw that the two threads were about the same so they merged them.

Try using different links to access that edit post place. That's what I did when this happened to me.

Originally Posted by Itachi

Mods saw that the two threads were about the same so they merged them.

Try using different links to access that edit post place. That's what I did when this happened to me.

I tried everything, I just Can't access that page! I will have to contact a Webmaster...

I've had these errors for about a week, both the fatal error and network timeout error.
Happens randomly

Well, I fixed the page editing problem with the help of Μαtt... so my question has been answered.

I keep getting the 404 errors trying to update my signature.

Irony. I got this error going here to see this thread.

No errors here but I feel sorry for those who have. Wow even a Site Staff isn't invincible from errors.

Originally Posted by jwalraven

I keep getting the 404 errors trying to update my signature.

Now THIS is a lead.

Try editing other parts of your profile. Do those work? Does it happen EVERY time you try to edit your signature?


As for the rest of you, unless you have something useful to say, get out of this discussion. I only want to hear important things like what jwalraven said.

I was finally able to change up my signature a bit but it seems that every time I try to add my Dragon Cave dragons to my signature using the tiny url, it times out on me and either sends me to the 404 page or the fatal error.

I am not the only one that has the dragons in their signature either. I know that Shadow Samus and Fire Bird have them in their signatures as well. I have had these in my signature before with no problems.

I messed around in my profile and everything else seems to be working.

Originally Posted by Jason

I can't fix the issue unless it can be easily reproduced. If it happens randomly, it could be caused by anything.

Jason, Jason, Jason...

Here is the translation of what you just said there.

Originally Posted by Jason

I don't feel like doing hard work. So tell me exactly where the problem is and then I'll do something.

What part of "happens randomly" do you not understand Jason? If it happens randomly, then it cannot be reproduced on command. The closest you can get is to go to a bunch of links and see what happens.

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...ml#post2599150

that was the URL display.

and this is was what the screen showed me.

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home/zelda/public_html/forums/global.php(407) : eval()'d code:39 Stack trace: #0 /home/zelda/public_html/forums/global.php(407) : eval()'d code(39): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 /home/zelda/public_html/forums/global.php(407): eval() #2 /home/zelda/public_html/forums/showthread.php(104): require_once('/home/zelda/pub...') #3 /home/zelda/public_html/forums/vbseo.php(1470): require('/home/zelda/pub...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/zelda/public_html/forums/global.php(407) : eval()'d code on line 39

This happens to me occasionally, the oops one. I just hit refresh and it goes to the right page. So I figure it's not that important. Am I the only one that tried refresh?

EDIT: Just clicked The Village forum, I got the fatal error, hit back to go to the forums, then came to this page.

Okay, here's the deal:

I DON'T CARE IF YOU GOT IT. I only care HOW you got it.

If you got it randomly, that doesn't help me. So DON'T TELL ME if you got it. Tell me HOW. Geebus, me knowing that you have a problem doesn't help me at all!

EDIT: And Matt, how do you fix a problem if you don't know what's causing it? The problem has to be reproducible or nothing can be done. Don't you ****ing DARE accuse me of being lazy after I've been on the phone with tech fixing server issues for the past week. Don't you dare.


EDIT2: Sorry, I'm just tired. I don't mean to sound mean.

You fix the problem by looking into the most obvious place first. If that turns up nothing, then move on to somewhere more obscure. In some of the weird problems I have fixed, I had no clue where the issue was at. You have to look for it. And as I said on the secret forum, the problem is linked to the issues on the wiki. And that error message tells you exactly where the problem might be. It is a misconfiguration in the server.



So looking on the site configuration will get you nowhere. Because that is not where the problem is. It is in the server itself. That is why it appears to be random. That is why it cannot be reproduced easily. A problem with the server really won't care what the link is. It will just give an error at whatever the link is at the time it occurs.

Alright, I'll explain what I've noticed. It seems to happen for somewhere around 1-5 minutes every few hours, on every ZU page. It seems it isn't dependent on the page, but more dependent on the time.

Slightly contradicting results, but it also seems to happen more often when I'm editing or posting. But even then I can't load another page on ZU in another tab when that happens.

I'm afraid I can't explain how to reproduce it, other than to just keep refreshing a page for a few hours.

Quick, someone get Lord Ranny to be Nancy Drew!

For me it only happens when I go to the New Posts button.

If it makes a difference I'm using the Main (Old) skin.

Hope that helps, Jason. ^_^