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It probably sent them all in a very short time and they are just working their way through the email system. This isn't the first time this has happened. It's never the same game, and it ususally only affects one particular game, and sometimes only one or two people in that game. Hopefully once it all clears out the problem won't come back for you. Let me know.

Geoschmo

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Ok, thanks for the info. I will keep you posted.

PvK

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Well I for one can't get PBW at the moment. I'll try again in an hour or two before bed.

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I was able to connect a couple of hours ago, but not right now (and, BTW, I am STILL getting copies of that turn every few minutes... ;-P ).

PvK

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Meh, Ok, I'm going to try something different. Stand by...

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Ok, PvK. I did a cold reboot Last night on the server and we've had a couple Tomcat resets on the server in the Last couple days and neither helped your problem. Either the emails were all sent and you are just getting the email server buffer now, or the server was caught in some sort of loop that wasn't getting cleared by the reboot. If it was the first you really shouldn't still be getting emails at this point. SO on the theory that it's the second I've reuploaded the current turn to PBW as a replacement game turn. Hopefully this will kick the game and get it out of this loop if it's in one. Please let me know if the emails stop coming.

I sent out a game news to all the players as well.

Geoschmo

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Well PBW is back up.

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Hi Geo,

thanks very much for the effort. After your efforts Last night, what is now happening is I am receiving more-or-less alternating emails - the first one is time-stamped like the previous ones, on 12/14/04, and the new ones are time-stamped 12/16/04, now perhaps two every five minutes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif So apparently PBW is continually sending the email out, _and_ there are old ones still fighting their way across the Internet to me. Unless the old ones don't ever stop at the same time the new ones do (which I assume will happen when the next turn processes).

(I also noticed that me uploading my turn also didn't help.)

PvK

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Actually, I haven't received any for a while now...

(That is, I didn't receive any for about 25 minutes... and then two more from 12/16/04 arrived. I guess that's just the usual web ebb and flow.)

PvK

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I got a strange message from PBW when I went to upload a turn. It was this: (It opened in a file download window if you know what I mean)

You have chosen to open

GameUpload

which is a: application/octet-stream
from: http://pbw.cc/

What should Firefox do with this file?

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When I get that one it usually means I tried to upload the wrong file as my turn...

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That happened to me; I think I was trying to upload the wrong file, but I don't really remember. There's a thread on it somewhere.

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Hmm, well I double and triple checked that it was the right turn. It was for sure. But I finally gave up on trying to upload....and the turn was uploaded!! I have been having trouble with the internet in general, and PBW in particular, so I had to try a few times to get most turns uploaded, and can't even download the larger turnfiles.

What I think might have happened is this: The turn got uploaded, but the screen didn't change because the internet crapped out on me before it could. Then, thinking that it hadn't uploaded, I tried again to upload it, and since it was already uploaded the aforementioned window popped up.

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You are correct. Sometimes the backend stuff happens faster then the web pages refresh. So basically when the .jsp page you are looking at gets behind like that it can cause wierd things to happen, like what you experienced. You would expect that some kind of error code would have been coded that would say, "You've already uploaded your turn", but it wasn't because normally if you had uploaded your turn already you wouldn't even have the option to upload again.

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In IE, this sort of event would nomrally cause a page to open in the browser window with information on the error. However, it uses weird code that violates the standards, so other browsers, such as Firefox, have no idea what to do with it.

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Well its good to know for sure what happened, and thanks for the explanations.

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Just had an interesting error.

I went to upload my file, yes it was the correct file, and it gave me an option to download????? Any ways I logged off and when I logged back on it showed that I had uploaded my turn file. Very odd.

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This applies to you to Atrocities. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif PBW sent your browser a page in a weird way, and your browser had no idea what to do with it.

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I checked PBW 10-15 minutes ago and it worked. Now it has an internal server error. Typical if you ask me, Christmas day (Well mine finished half an hour ago) and PBW goes down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif.

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Yep its down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Just when i received email-notification about a new turn in my favourite game, galactic invasion http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Server is up, it's just running in stupid mode. Looks like it can't read the db.

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Maybe "Christmas'" way of saying spend time with family on this day. Nahhhhhhh!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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8:10 AM Pacific Standard Time: Internal Server Error. Both graphics and text sites.

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Sorry guys. I kicked it and I think it's working ok now. This is the first time i got on today so I didn't know there was a problem.

Geoschmo

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No problem, Geo. All's well that ends well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

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Looks like Colonel's withdraw from the Power game left it hung in execution.

When you get a chance, Geo http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Can't create a game. Tried both Firefox and IE to no avail. I'm getting the "Server had trouble saving the game" message.

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I'm not familier with that message. Are you paraphrasing or is that an exact quote of the error message?

If you are getting "Sorry, could not create a new game." then you are most likely using a game name or game filename that is being used by another game. Those must be unique for every game.

Geoschmo

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Sorry, I did paraphrase. I'll try again and let you know.

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It was my screw-up, I was trying to use an invalid character. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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I've updated the error page to be more clear and descriptive on that in the future.

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Thank you!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ooops, looks like we have problems, Houston.

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No problem here; I think you have experienced a temporary downtime. From time to time, PBW is unavailable for a couple of minutes here, so that may have been your problem.

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Same, worked just fine for me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hmmm...seems I have a problem again... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Yep it's down.

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Well it's back up already.

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LOL...yup! Digital burp, I suppose.

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PBW not accepting my uploaded turns.

In every game I play, when I try to upload my turn I get a window that asks me to "Save" the turn. I double checked and and even swtiched browswers and still the same. The site will not accept uploads, well at least not from me.

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Email me the turn you are trying to upload AT.

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Thanks Geoschmo, I sent it to your yahoo address.

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PBW down again as of now.

Brian

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Oh shoot... and I really need to get in there like now.

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Still down... hmmm.... relatively long duration this time. I guess that means I won't be getting turns soon. Ah well, we've been on Last player before.

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It's not been down the whole night Cipher. I was on it Last night and this morning. It is down right now, but I'll have it back up shortly.

Geoschmo

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Ok, should be up and running now.

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Cant tell you why, but i cant seem to get on pbw. it loads the upper frame with the buttons just fine, but the bottom frame where the games and stuff are is still white after 3 mins loading. tried both Firefox and IE.

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Have you tried the text UI Rag-x?

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Just refresh the site a couple of times until it loads...