LlamaServer: status and bug reports

[llamabeast]

Hallo! Aaargh, unbelievable! Seriously, every single time it has had a significant bug recently I've been away, and I think every single time I've been away it's had a nasty bug. Phenomenally unlucky.

Thanks very much for your patience, everyone. You'd have had good reason to be really annoyed at getting so much spam, so I really appreciate everyone being so chilled about it. This really is a great community.

Anyway, for the moment I have shut the server down to prevent further spamming. Before I did that it accidentally hosted a load of games - hopefully all of them should have hosted anyway, but if not maybe some rollbacks are required. That's a bit unfortunate - sorry. I'm a bit frazzled, having been up till 4.30am last night on the last night of this course, so I am going to have a nap now and hopefully things will be clearer when I get up.

Incidentally I don't think the issue had anything to do with the server getting overloaded - I think it's still not very near to reaching that stage. Rather, for some reason it ceased to be able to empty its mail inbox, and so the mail built up and up, and it responded repeatedly to each message.

[Xietor]

Welcome back Llamabeast! I had a great Halloween!

Hopefully you did as well. Do they celebrate that across the pond? In any event I hope the reason you were up late was for "tricks and treats" and not email spam. heh.

I think llamaserver was accepting turns. So if games hosted I doubt(ducks) that is a big deal.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Xietor

I think llamaserver was accepting turns. So if games hosted I doubt(ducks) that is a big deal.

Other than that, some people may have stopped submitting turns when they realized what was going on. Personally, I was not very annoyed by the interruption - though I think poor Llama has gremlins. :P I would, however, be a little annoyed at being severely penalized for hesitating to send in turns to a malfunctioning server.....

[Herode]

I don't know if it's connected but I am now unable to validate a "postpone hosting" order with my admin password.

[JimMorrison]

From the Llamaserver -

Originally Posted by llamabeast

The LlamaServer is a bit unhappy at the moment. I just came back from a few days away to find it acting very oddly (apologies to everyone who was spammed), so I thought I'd reboot it. Unfortunately I then wasn't able to restart it, and I've now exhausted all the ideas me and my (very hardware-savvy) housemate could come up with to revive it. So it looks like the current hardware incarnation of the server may be dead.

Fortunately, this isn't nearly so bad as it sounds. I still have all the data safe, and I'll get it running again very soon, either on my lab computer or on a virtual machine within my housemate's server. So all should be running again in the next day or two.

Thanks everyone for being so patient.

llamabeast

I feel bad, every time you leave town, we immediately break your stuff.