PBW status

[geoschmo]

Ok, the server is mostly functioning. The emails are now being sent for new turns and news, and you can send in email turns, however there is a problem with that. This will only affect people using the email to submit their .plr files. The turn emails are going out with "null" in the subject line instead of a turn code, so if you send your .plr file by email PBW isn't going to recognize it. I have an idea what is the problem, but until I can get it fixed you will have to use the website to submit your turns.

[Ed Kolis]

Is it just me or is the "remember me" function broken? I have to log in every time I visit the site... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Ragnarok-X]

Eh is it possible that emails were NOT send ? I just logged in to PBW and 3 of my games await my turn files even though im 100% percent sure i uploaded my turns before PBW went offline and now new turns are awaiting turn submission..

[Ed Kolis]

See Geo's most recent post http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[geoschmo]

Ed Kolis said:
Is it just me or is the "remember me" function broken? I have to log in every time I visit the site... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I'm having that problem as well. Frustrating. I'll try to find out what's causing it.

[geoschmo]

Ragnarok-X said:
Eh is it possible that emails were NOT send ? I just logged in to PBW and 3 of my games await my turn files even though im 100% percent sure i uploaded my turns before PBW went offline and now new turns are awaiting turn submission..

The outgoing emails were broken, but they shold be working for any new turns from tis point on.

Geoschmo

[mac5732]

I tried logging into PBW and it just keeps saying problems with the server etc. So I would assume the system is still down.... I'm unabale to even log into PBW to obtain the turn, but I will wait patiently until fixed.... I have faith in you to lower our withdrawal attacks by furiously working in the 9- degree heat and 90+ humidity so us addicts can obtain our fix.... LOL

[Fyron]

I just logged in without a hitch.

[mac5732]

hmmm, strange there Fyron, I just tried again and I still get the Sorry... server problem message by the admin.... hmmmm

[geoschmo]

Mac you need to clear you browser cache. Try hitting refresh a couple times. Maybe ctrl+F5. I think that's a cache refresh.

[geoschmo]

Ok, I have to take the server down for a bit to work on some things. Shouldn't be long.

[mac5732]

problem solved, it was the cache DOH,, tks Fyron and Geo, back up and playing, My withdrawal is almost gone, wife was ready to commit me to the booby hatch, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[geoschmo]

Ok, I'm done workign on it for tonight. Servers back up and running. I think I have the email problems licked. It looks like it's putting the proper codes in the subject line with the new turns now. It also looks like it's remembering me when I log back in. If someone else could confirm that's working I'd appreciate it.

[douglas]

I don't know about the email subject codes (haven't gotten a new turn recently enough), but it's remembering my login just fine.

[Kana]

Mine works fine to...now if I can just get two people to do there turns... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Kana

[Randallw]

You may not believe this, but it's out again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Edit: ahh, never mind http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[geoschmo]

Ok, one more quick update this morning. Last night I got the emails working where it would put the proper code in the turn email subject line. Howeever it wasn't processing those correctly when you sent them back with your .plr file, so the process still wasn't working. I've got that fixed now so you can submit your turns via email again.

I think everything is now back to working the way it was before we had our problems this weekend. There might still be some catch up we have to do on the most recent mods Georgig added. I have to check with him on that.

I'm going to leave auto turns off for a while longer.

[ExSentinel]

Thanks for all of your hardwork Geo and I am glad that it was not something more serious.

[TurinTurambar]

Ditto.

/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/icon42.gif

[ExSentinel]

Geo, just curious, when do you think the system will be ready to go back to full automation? Hope all is well

[Grandpa Kim]

A very odd thing happened in my game "The Air That We Breathe". The server could not execute the turn, but this tiny game played out in less than ten seconds on my computer. This has happened on two consecutive turns after running flawlessly for some 40 turns.

The only changes are the recent probs with the server and one player being kicked.

During execution, a couple pop-ups had to be clicked off that server handles routinely.

Geo, I checked the root and noticed one emp file was missing. Could this be the cause? Can it be corrected. I still have the emp files on hand.

[geoschmo]

Grandpakim, don't do the turn offline next time. If it fails again let me know and I can watch it on the server and see what's happeing.

Geoschmo

EDIT: Never mind. I found what was wrong. The turn shouldn't fail anymore.

[Grandpa Kim]

Will do!

[geoschmo]

I have turned the auto turns back on for the server. Everything should be back up and running now.

[Ragnarok-X]

Man i love PBW so much http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[geoschmo]

Doing a little preventative maintence on the server this morning. It will only be down a few minutes.

[geoschmo]

Oh, forgot to post when I was done this morning. Just so there's no confusion, I'm done.

[Ed Kolis]

Ack, I think I killed PBW... was downloading my turn for Carrier Battles #6 but it wouldn't unzip... tried again, still no luck, and now I can't access PBW at all (Internal Server Error)... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[bearclaw]

I can't open it either! It just sits there not doing anything....

[Intimidator]

The same............

[Renegade 13]

I get a "Connection refused" error when trying to access PBW.

[geoschmo]

I rebooted. Looks like it's ok now.

[Ed Kolis]

That's odd... is it just me, or is it currently impossible to download .gam zip files?
edit: nm, now it works http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[DeKaye]

Hi! I was wondering, is it cheating to use an already played race for a PBW game? I mean, an empire that has some experience points? I have not found any info concerning this. Thanks. Sorry if I placed this in the wrong thread.

[Renegade 13]

Nope, that's not cheating (if I'm reading what you wrote correctly). The experience points that accrue have absolutely no effect in game. If I remember correctly, they used to but proved to be unbalancing.

[DeKaye]

Thank you. I am going to reitterate, so I can make sure we both know what I'm talking about. :} I develop a race I kinda like and play a single player game(s). I save the empire and then I decide to use it for a PBW game. I alter the things I need to with this race to conform to the game requirments. You indicated that the experience points gained do not make any difference and this is not cheating. Do I have this correct? Thanks. Just want to make sure. Don't want to be accused of doing some PBW "sin".

[Captain Kwok]

Experience points don't do anything - there just for atmospere so feel free to use your empire file as much as you want.

[DeKaye]

okay, thank you all so very much.

[EaX]

I got this while i was trying to see my games:

Error: 500
Location: /text/games.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:

javax.servlet.ServletException
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:508)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(Se rvletWrapper.java:405)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.jav a:287)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(Serv letWrapper.java:372)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalServ ice(ContextManager.java:797)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Cont extManager.java:743)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp13Connectio nHandler.processConnection(Ajp13ConnectionHandler. java:160)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(Po olTcpEndpoint.java:416)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable. run(ThreadPool.java:501)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Root cause:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
<>

[Ed Kolis]

The out of memory error is back! Please turn off turn processing until we can access our games!
Thank you very much! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Umm? I just accessed and submitted turns and more for the last hour...

[Ed Kolis]

Oops, must have been a cache error... it's working now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Unco]

My game was supposed to auto process this morning. Is auto processing still turned off on PBW?

[Alienboy]

I have not been having any trouble accessing my game over the last week. Must have missed the above issues!? Wasn't so lucky today though. I have just tried to access my game again and I got this error message.

Internal Servlet Error:

javax.servlet.ServletException
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:508)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(Se rvletWrapper.java:405)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.jav a:287)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(Serv letWrapper.java:372)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalServ ice(ContextManager.java:797)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Cont extManager.java:743)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp13Connectio nHandler.processConnection(Ajp13ConnectionHandler. java:160)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(Po olTcpEndpoint.java:416)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable. run(ThreadPool.java:501)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Root cause:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
<>

[Ragnarok-X]

Same thing over here, exactly the same error msg.

[Parasite]

Yep, here too. I am going to get gas. Prices are going up again in the US.

[Alienboy]

Parasite said:
Yep, here too. I am going to get gas. Prices are going up again in the US.



I own an ex-Ambulance, just put a 350 Chev V8 on LPG into it. I have a fleet card and get my LPG for .62c per litre. Its cheaper to run than my girlfrinds Nissan pulsar! Laughing! /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_NewZeland.gif

[Ed Kolis]

I'm getting the out of memory error too... didn't someone once mention that PBW was being harvested by spammers for email addresses? Perhaps there is some sort of malware on the system...

[Atrocities]

Likewise. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Cannot load the game screens. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Renegade 13]

Same here, can't load. 11:56 AM PST

[Emperor's Child]

Now the site appears to be down...

Can ya say death spiral....

[LonghornXtreme]

Yup... the sites down for me... I got a new turn email on tuesday at 8pm CST but I didn't have time to run my turn till this evening...

[Cipher7071]

I've been trying to upload a turn since this morning. I can't seem to access the site at all.

[Taera]

Is the game still going guys? I'd like to join. Did post something in the recruitment forum.

[Emperor's Child]

Site's still down at 5:30 Eastern standard time.

[Alienboy]

Emperor's Child said:
Site's still down at 5:30 Eastern standard time.



Hey, its 9.48pm on the 22nd here (NZDT),... so that means you still got at least another 17 hours to wait!,..... lol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_NewZeland.gif

[AMF]

Hmmm...still down I think...

[Cipher7071]

9:10 AM EDT, Sept 22: Still down.

[Alienboy]

All fixed and working now people! Y'all just wait in line now!....lol.

[Cipher7071]

3:15 Pm Sept 26: I just uploaded my turn, got the turn executing message, and took a quick look to see if there were any new posts to the game forum. When I tried to check back to see if everything went okay, I got an Internal Server Error. I quit IE and tried to reaccess the site, and got the same error again.

[Ed Kolis]

I'm getting a 404 on seiv.pbw.cc

[AMF]

yeah, me too...

[Emperor's Child]

PBW site is still down as of 4:20 PM Eastern Standard Time.

[Atrocities]

Just when you need it most..... it goes down.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif But PBW Team are a dedicated bunch of guys so I bet it won't stay down. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Renegade 13]

Down: 7:24 PM PST

[Atrocities]

Well double dammit then!

[Emperor's Child]

Still Down at 5:45 AM EST...

[AMF]

Bummer - I leave for a long weekend tomorrow AM, and will be gone until tuesday (starting Wednesday AM)...bad timing...oh well...definitely time to send Geo some more money for PBW...

Alarik

[inigma]

Yup. It still looks like we have to bust out the 'ol TDM Modpack.

[geoschmo]

Guys, I'm sorry, I had no idea we were down until just now. It just needed a simple reboot to get it going again. Looks like all is working now.

I'm pretty wrapped up with school so I haven't been around here much lately and I only visit the PBW site about once a week unless I know we are having a problem. If we have another problem feel free to send an email to admin or me directly, or send me a Shrapnel PM.

I don't have this topic flagged to automatically notify me when someone responds because a lot of people like to use this thread for general questions and comments. That's not a problem, but it tends to fill my email box if I have it email me.

So feel free to shoot us or me an email if you notice the site is down and then post a message here telling everyone else you've emailed us so we don't get innundated.

Geoschmo

[Ed Kolis]

Well, thanks once again for your continued support of the SE community! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[DeKaye]

thanks Geo!

[Alienboy]

Have accessed PBW earlier today to check my game. No problems accessing then, but have just tried again now and I can't seem to access PBW now. I'm going to email Geo and let him know.

[inigma]

yup, it looks like its down.

[PvK]

Yep. Site not responding.

[Randallw]

Yeah I can't get it. There's no error, it just hangs.

[Emperor's Child]

Site still down, 0549 EST.

[geoschmo]

Gave it a knudge. Looks like it's working now.

[Alienboy]

geoschmo said:
Gave it a knudge. Looks like it's working now.



Good on ya mate!

[AMF]

Yay! Thanks Geo! You rock.

[Emperor's Child]

I think it's down again. I can't get it to respond, 11:48 PM EST.

[inigma]

of all the timing. its down again.

[AMF]

Doh! Yep....sigh...

[parabolize]

Has anyone emailed geoschmo?

[Emperor's Child]

I've e-mailed him.

[geoschmo]

Thanks for the email. Should be back up now.

[Emperor's Child]

Geo, you da man!

Really, our SOP (that's Standard Operating Procedures) for PBW downtime is to check here, and if you are the first guy to report a problem send Geo an e-mail.

[DeKaye]

1:40AM Down again :{

[DeKaye]

PS: I emailed Geo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[AMF]

Very sad...boo hoo...very sad...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[geoschmo]

Should be working now.

[DeKaye]

Thank you so very much! Wahoo!

[Randallw]

There were errors earlier and now I can't get it at all.

[AMF]

Looks down again...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Emperor's Child]

I've sent Geo an e-mail to request a re-boot.

[geoschmo]

Should be working again.

[Emperor's Child]

Yup, it's working again. Thanks, Geo!

[Atrocities]

PBW seems to be down. Can any one confirm? It happend right after I uploaded ST Quadrants In Conflict game file.

[Alienboy]

Atrocities said:
PBW seems to be down. Can any one confirm? It happend right after I uploaded ST Quadrants In Conflict game file.


So its your fault! lol,.... Actually I was also logged on at about the same time as you, checking something out. It was fine one minute, then down the next........ I still blame you though! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

I have just sent Geo an email so don't fill his mail box Ok people! lol /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_NewZeland.gif

[RCCCL]

Appears to still be down! I was hoping to upload my Ecliptic turn...... ah well.

[geoschmo]

Should be ok now. Sorry for the delay. I've been pretty busy today and just no got around to checking my email and stuff.

[Emperor's Child]

Yup, back up! Thanks Geo!

[AMF]

Nevermind.
Problem must have been on my end.

[Renegade 13]

I get an internal server error when trying to connect to both the graphics- and text-based PBW. Can anyone confirm?

[Ed Kolis]

I can't connect either, but I could earlier today...

[Renegade 13]

Alright, I'll fire an email off to Geo. Thanks for confirming!

[bearclaw]

404 error! 404 error!

[Ragnarok-X]

same http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[geoschmo]

Should be working good now.

[Slynky]

I'm failing to connect this morning (7:23 EST)

[geoschmo]

Yes, I cannot connect to it either. This may be an isp problem. I'll let you know when I find out more.

[geoschmo]

Ok, it appears the IP address for my cable connection has been reset. I always knew this was a possibility since I moved to the cable isp since it's not a static ip address, but this is the first time it's happened that I can recall, which seems pretty remarkable.

The new IP address is 69.81.92.216. You should be able to connect to PBW by typing http://69.81.92.216 in your browser. I will get the DNS updated so the pbw.cc domain will be correct, but that may take a day or two.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

Hrm, actually, that's the same IP it's always been. It hasnt' changed. So there is something else going on here.

You can still reach the site by typing that IP address in your browser though.

[geoschmo]

Until we get this straightened out I have turned off auto processing of turns on the server. The turns will still run if all the players upload their .plr files, and can be forces to run by the game owner at any time like always, but they won't run automatically at turn timeout.

Also, I am not 100% sure whether the email functions are working. So if you are a game owner trying to contact your players, don't count on news emails reaching everybody. You probably need to send out emails manually to each of your players.

A bear, I know. Sorry.

[TurinTurambar]

We are standing by patiently, awaiting your gracious and undeserved assistance and attention.

AKA: Dude, fuhgettabouti.... we got faith

[Grandpa Kim]

Confirming that emailed turns are still disabled.

[Ed Kolis]

Site is accessible for me now...

[Slynky]

Grandpa Kim said:
Confirming that emailed turns are still disabled.

Guess I should have checked here first before I asked Parabolize if he was getting KotH turns by mail.

[geoschmo]

It looks like the email functions are all working ok now. I sucsessfully tested news messages in a couple games, and verified that the the server is sending out new turns and receiving .plr files by email and processing them.

I have not turned auto processing back on yet though. I'll probably wait till tommorow sometim just to make sure everybody knows the site is back up. Some people don't visit here and they may have just thought the server was completely down the whole time.

[Grandpa Kim]

Dawgoneit! Now I'm getting an "Error 500" --

"Root cause:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError"

Full text available if you need it.

[Renegade 13]

Odd, I'm not having any trouble accessing PBW. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[Alienboy]

Fine for me too!

[Grandpa Kim]

And the it cleared up on its own as quickly as it arrived.

[Ed Kolis]

Can't connect, 4:35 PM EST http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Ragnarok-X]

dito

[geoschmo]

Should be working now..

[Ed Kolis]

thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Slynky]

Houston, I think we have a problem...

[geoschmo]

Yeah, I actually caught this one before anyone mentioned it and it's back up now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[PvK]

Hmm. My user settings haven't changed, but I've stopped receiving new turns in email. Any idea why?

It could just be my ISP flaking out or something, I guess.

PvK

[PvK]

Never mind. Although I still haven't tracked it down, tests indicate that PBW-sized attachments aren't getting through to my email account for some reason.

PvK

[geoschmo]

When did this happen? I've received a couple today, but that doesn't neccesarily mean the problem is on your end. We've had some wierd problems where emails stop for everybody in a specific game before. Is this happeneing in more than one game to you? Are others in the game having the problem?

Or could they be getting stuck in a bulk folder or something by your isp?

[PvK]

When did this happen?

Last night and today.

Is this happeneing in more than one game to you?

Yes.

Are others in the game having the problem?

I don't know, but it seems like it's probably a problem with my email at or before the ISP because I tried sending myself two test emails from another account, one with a 500+KB PBW attachment, and one with no attachment, and only the one with no attachment showed up. So I think PBW is probably sending them to me, but they're just getting lost somehow.

Or could they be getting stuck in a bulk folder or something by your isp?

Or something, yes it's possible and seems most likely to me. I talked to my ISP tech support and they referred me to their two spam filters, which they are in the middle of tweaking and changing, but neither of them show that I have anything quarantined there... which is also a little odd since I usually get much more spam arriving in my email. Sounds like there's probably something else filtering my email into the ISP.

Cheers,

PvK

[Grandpa Kim]

Hmm. Two turn emails did not arrive this morning. Seems to be a short gap of a couple hours from UTC 1600 to 1730. Could have started earlier but that's all I can confirm. I received turn emails before and after that time span.

[geoschmo]

Yeah, I didn't get an email on my first turn that ran today either. I've kicked it to see if I can get the emails working again. Let me know if it helps.

[Grandpa Kim]

Yep, seems to be doing it again. UTC 17:15

[geoschmo]

Ok, turns out the problem wasn't with the PBW server. We had some problems with our email server. I think it should be working now though.

Geoschmo

[Renegade 13]

Deleted. My stupidity wrote before my brain thought http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[geoschmo]

Weather man is predicting freezing rain followed by heavy snows with accumulations from 3 to 6 inches tonight. It's not so bad that I expect to lose power or ISP connection, but the possibility is always there. In case the server drops offline tonight, that might be why.

[douglas]

Are auto turns turned off? I've got one game where the host had to manually force the turn the last two times, and another is 20 minutes past the deadline right now. Both of them are set to fully automatic turns.

[CovertJaguar]

I'm the host for that game that Douglas is talking about: The Galactic Invasion 2. I've had to push the execute turn button twice. I'm not sure that it was on consecutive turns either. I think it processed on time once then it didn't do it again. I believe the same thing happened with another one of the games I'm in too: Adamant 13. I believe Fyron had to execute the turn manually, and since then all has been well. You'd have to ask him to be sure.

EDIT: Er...scratch that, all is not well. Adamant 013 is past the deadline again.

[geoschmo]

Yes, it does look like auto turns had frozen up. I hadn't noticed. It's working now.

[Slynky]

Getting an internal server error now.

[Thermodyne]

Same here, Internal server error

[geoschmo]

Should be back up now I think

[Thermodyne]

Yep, Working fine now.

[Slynky]

Like a champ! Thanks, Geo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[Ed Kolis]

I guess this fits in this thread... when can we expect PBW to be upgraded to 1.94 Deluxe?

edit: oh, yeah, could you also please set up the Masters Mod v1.0? http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=397212&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

[geoschmo]

I planned on doing it this weekend. I am going to need to take it offline for a bit to upgrade. But I got sick this weekend and didn't feel like doing much of anything. Shouldn't be too much longer.

[geoschmo]

Taking the server down for a bit for some maintenance. Be back up shortly.

[geoschmo]

Ok, it's back up now. I'm going to have to take it back down later today to finish up some things, but you shouldn't have any problems using it in the mean time.

[geoschmo]

Taking it back down.

[Grandpa Kim]

You have it back up now, but turn emails don't seem to be working.

[geoschmo]

The email problem is unrelated to the work I did this morning. Our email provider is on the fritz again. I've contacted the admin about it. Until it's working again I have turned off automatic turn processing.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

Email is fixed. Everything is back up and running now. I've turned automatic turns back on.

We've added support for version 1.94 to PBW. I've setup all the 1.91 mods as 1.94 mods. If you have a game you want switched over and you are confident the mod is compatible, have your game ower post a message in the PBW admin forum.

My original plan was to just change everything from 1.91 to 1.94 since it was two-way compatible in all my tests. However, when I tried that this morning we had some mod games that were causign errors on the server. I'm not sure if this is a mod compatibility issue, or just a savegame issue. We'll deal with them one at a time though as the games get converted.

Geoschmo

[douglas]

Attempting to undo a turn in one of my games resulted in this error message:

Error: 500
Location: /GamePlayer
Internal Servlet Error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null filename to Game.load?
at cc.dpf.pbw.seiv.Game.load(Game.java:508)
at cc.dpf.pbw.servlet.seiv.GamePlayer.processRequest( GamePlayer.java:276)
at cc.dpf.pbw.servlet.seiv.GamePlayer.doGet(GamePlaye r.java:339)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(Se rvletWrapper.java:405)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.jav a:287)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(Serv letWrapper.java:372)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalServ ice(ContextManager.java:797)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Cont extManager.java:743)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp13Connectio nHandler.processConnection(Ajp13ConnectionHandler. java:160)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(Po olTcpEndpoint.java:416)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable. run(ThreadPool.java:501)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

[Renegade 13]

When the error occurs, are you using Firefox/Mozilla? If so, try with Internet Explorer. I think that function will not work without IE for some reason.

[douglas]

Yes, it was. Unfortunately I didn't think to try that before leaving for work. Oh well, I just wanted to add a message in case a certain other player misses the shortly upcoming deadline.

[capnq]

Many of these errors can be avoided or gotten around by using the text UI instead of the graphic UI. The graphic UI prefers IE, but the text UI is pretty much browser independent.

[Will]

Not really a big issue, but I think there might be a problem with PBW's email. I uploaded a turn, and did my next turn a few minutes later when the server was done processing... and I recieved the notice that the turn was ready about an hour later (after I had already downloaded and uploaded that turn) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Probably just an isolated incident, but there might be something the SMTP daemon is getting stuck on, so worth looking into.

[CovertJaguar]

Is something wrong with the Adamant 15.04 mod on the server? I host two games with this mod, but both are failing on every turn. They are "The Galactic Invasion 2" and "Adamant Brutality Renewal". I had "The Galactic Invasion 2" updated to 1.94 after the first time it failed thinking it was something to do with the anti-seeker seekers that are in the mod, but it's still failing and "Adamant Brutality Renewal" is as well, though it is not 1.94. I can process them both just fine with 1.94 on my machine.

[geoschmo]

Yes, we've come across a problem with 1.94 on the PBW server related to the new music. It's a driver problems or something. There isn't really any reason for music on the PBW server anyway so I've been setting the 1.94 mods to "Allow CD Music :False", but I must have missed this one. Should work now. I see there are still players yet to upload in your game, so I don't know if I should force the turn. If you are the game owner you can, or have your game owner do it.

Geoschmo

[CovertJaguar]

Thanks

[Ed Kolis]

PBW is not responding... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[geoschmo]

Lost our ISP connection for a bit. We are back up now. Can you get to the PBW server?

[Ed Kolis]

Yep, thanks! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Is something wrong with PBW? Half of my games are "waiting for processing", which seems kind of suspicious... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[geoschmo]

You should have got a news email about the Five Houses game. It turns out IamE3 was in two other of your games and withdrew from both of them as well. The game owner in those games did the same thing I did and set the turn to no automatic turns.

In one of your games the last player (not IamE3 in this case) to upload withdrew which automatically causes a game to go into "Waiting for processing" status until the game owner either kicks the turn or a new player is found.

And in one of your games the turn is failing to process for some reason which the game owner hasn't figured out yet.

Nothing wrong with PBW. Most of the problem is due to one player leaving which you happened to be in several games with.

[Ed Kolis]

Oh, OK - thanks for checking for me! I can't remember how to access my personal email over the web from work so I haven't received those emails. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Atrocities]

Is there something wrong with PBW? When I try to access my game pages, nothing is happening. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Edit - THe links do not seem to be working with FireFox, but work fine in IE. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif.

Any suggestions?

[geoschmo]

Um, use IE? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Sorry I don't have a better answer. A lot of the graphical UI functionality doesn't seem to work when using other browsers. I've not heard of anyone with the exact problem you are describing though.

[Atrocities]

Its a first for me as well. Worked fine a couple of days ago, but after the FF crash I had, it doesn't seem to be working since yestarday. Odd.

[capnq]

The other alternative is to switch to the text UI; it's not nearly as fussy as the graphical UI.

capnq
PBW admin

[LordAxel]

Not sure if the problem is on my end but i havent been able to connect to the real time client this afternoon.
Keep getting cant connect to the server any suggestions

[geoschmo]

LordAxel said:
Not sure if the problem is on my end but i havent been able to connect to the real time client this afternoon.
Keep getting cant connect to the server any suggestions

Nope, problem wasn't you. That process had stopped running on the server. Thanks for letting me know. It should be ok now.

[LordAxel]

Thanks its up and going again

[Rathar]

Tis down for me, IE, haven't tried the fieryfox as I did something silly to it that I haven't been able to track down.. Alas

Rathar

[geoschmo]

Seems to be working ok from here. Try clearing your cache Rather?

[XenoTheMorph]

I just seem to be getting connection timeouts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
Is the server down atm?

[Rathar]

Hmm Well, I cleared out most everything I knew of and well, still doesn;t work so lets assume my brain fell out and I forgot how to clear the cache or something? Definitely user error methinks.. /nod

Rathar

[Emperor's Child]

Still down...

[geoschmo]

The server's not down guys and we have a good coonnection to the internet. I don't know why a couple of you seem to be having problems. Are you getting some kind of errors or just a 404 page?

[Rathar]

404 page but tis working now, dunno!

Rathar

[XenoTheMorph]

It was just a standard connection timeout, with any attempt to connect to the PBW server (firefox, IE, even PING! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ). Seems to have sorted itself out almost an hour after I posted.

[PvK]

Seems to be off-line at the moment...

[RCCCL]

PBW down?

Can someone confirm for me wether it is or not?

I have multiple games turns due and have to leave for work soon, and I definately don't want the AI handling my turns right now(nothing is worse than missing a turn and discovering the ai declared war on 5 seprate people)!

[ExSentinel]

Is anybody else having trouble getting on to the site now?

[Slynky]

ExSentinel said:
Is anybody else having trouble getting on to the site now?

Yeah, me, too.

[geoschmo]

I can't reach it at the moment to do anything. Which means it's probably a connection issue and may come back up on it's own. If not I'll be home in a couple hours and may be able to do something then.

Geoschmo

[ExSentinel]

Thanks Geo, just checking, no rush. Thanks for the update

[geoschmo]

You all should be able to connect to the server now. Please let me know if that's not the case.

[AdmiralMartin]

It works now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Slynky]

AdmiralMartin said:
It works now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Yep, same here.

Thanks, as always, Geo http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Slynky]

I'm guessing the server has decided to be ornerous again.

[Slynky]

Slynky said:
I'm guessing the server has decided to be ornerous again.

And yet, now, it's happy again.

[geoschmo]

Slynky said:

Slynky said:
I'm guessing the server has decided to be ornerous again.

And yet, now, it's happy again.


Don't anthropomorphize the PBW server. It hates it when people do that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Arkcon]

PBW Server has gone down. I should have expected this to happen ... just a few minutes ago, when I tried to download my game turns, the zip files had bad headers.

[ExSentinel]

Is anyone having trouble accessing the PBW server? I keep getting an internal error message when I try to log on?

Any help would be appreciated

[ExSentinel]

Never mind question answered

[geoschmo]

Should be ok now.

[geoschmo]

Taking the server down for a bit for some maintenance.

[geoschmo]

Back up and running now.

[Randallw]

I'm having no luck getting to the site.

[Captain Kwok]

Yeah, it looks like PBW is down.

[Atrocities]

Yup, it be 404 page not found... WSOD... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Alneyan]

Uh? It's working alright for me, after your two last posts. I'm also not browsing my cache, since I can download turns just fine.

Well, I'll pretend I cannot access the server, and slack on my turns regardless.

[geoschmo]

Lost our isp connection for a bit this morning. SHould be ok now.

[Ed Kolis]

PBW seems to be down again - can anyone else confirm?

[geoschmo]

It'll be back up momentarily. Just doing some maintenance. Thought I could have it down and back up before anyone noticed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Hehe, thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I see it now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Thermodyne]

Anyone besides me having trouble connecting to PBW?

[Ed Kolis]

Not me..

[Ed Kolis]

Seems to be down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Caduceus]

Working now.

[Randallw]

Doesn't look like I can get PBW at the moment.

Edit: nevermind. must have been my problem or momentary

[Alneyan]

It works fine here.

[Ed Kolis]

Server seems to be down again... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[psimancer]

agreed server down from my reach in texas

[Suicide Junkie]

Geo Fixed it!

[geoschmo]

Should be ok now..

[ExSentinel]

Anyone else having trouble logging on to PBW?

[bearclaw]

Me!! me!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Parasite]

Down for me too.

[AdmiralMartin]

Same here

[Major_SNAFU]

I can't access it either.

[Cipher7071]

Still down. All I get is the generic IE message "cannot access server."

[RCCCL]

Same here...... *sigh*

[geoschmo]

Had some cable work done this morning but everything should be back up and running ok now.

[ExSentinel]

Thanks Geo, have a good one

[RCCCL]

Thank you!

I was worried that I would have to leave for work without getting my turns. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Parasite]

It doesn't seem to be working for me. Can't get there at all.

[Emperor's Child]

Still Down, 18:46 EST

[Parasite]

It looks back up for me. Thanks Geo (or whoever http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Oh no! I seem to have killed PBW by downloading too many shipsets... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
edit: nope, it's back up! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Slynky]

Ed Kolis said:
Oh no! I seem to have killed PBW by downloading too many shipsets... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
edit: nope, it's back up! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Yeah, a bit "negative" for me, too.

[Ed Kolis]

down again... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[psimancer]

i see pbw is down please post to owner stel battleas psimancer needs till tomorrow noon (gotta go late to work now

[Emperor's Child]

still down, 6:00 EST, 23June06

[geoschmo]

Storm last night. I didn't think we lost power, but it must have surged and knocked the server down. It's back up now though.

[psimancer]

at this time im getting server taking to long to respond (timeout) errors i'll check again shortly (could be running maintenance and be v busy

just letting you know
psimancer

[psimancer]

nope no access

[Renegade 13]

Confirmed.

[AdmiralMartin]

Same here.

[geoschmo]

Hrm... Well it was up when I left the house this morning. But I can't get to it right now either. I'll check it out when I get home. Sorry.

[bearclaw]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rant.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rant.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

[psimancer]

no worries just being informative as always the RL franchise takes precedence (as without it we could not support this our real lives http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

[geoschmo]

Ok. looks like everything is up now.

[psimancer]

you have our thanks and appreication

[Renegade 13]

Yay! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Black_Knyght]

Yep, works fine now