Topic: Lost Posts

[byte]

Has any noticed that all posts from today is missing?!

[hitman012]

I too noticed this. My account also disappeared

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

yes my posts too have disappeared

[groutley]

my complete thread has gone,  and my last bugtracker update has gone

[dsemuk]

Can you see this thread groutley?  It appears to be your thread:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33582.msg143389#msg143389

Dave

[chris burnat]

Its across the board, I had posted a reply to spammassassin announce from Knuddi at around 1:00 this morning on the vs6 forum-contribs, gone. The sticky post on 7 about upgrade/restore is gone also, and to the best of my understanding had not been updated yesterday.

Groutley, I had replied to your post at around 01:00 and indicated that the errors you are seeing in http-admin logs are not consistent with what I have seen on a couple of version 7 systems.  It seems that your problem is related to fresh install of vs7 and restore of data from an old version 6 drive.  I suggest that you post a bug in bugzilla outlining exactly what has happened, including the fact that when doing a scan of your box against your IP address, all ports appear to be closed except Port80.   Also mention adding a template recovered from your version 6 system to provide DSN for your Bigpound connection. The Developpers may want to know about this.

I had also suggested that you remove your template and check whether this make a difference, i.e. can you access server-manager via your external card using the IP address - a wild shot. All the best and lets hope that the missing posts resurface at some stage.

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

i have lost a complete thread too, with a reponse from cactus.
the subject was update from sme 7 beta 4 to sme 7.0

[raem]

For those interested (& I'm sure there are many), here is one of the posts that went missing. Lucky I copied & saved it.

Question:
have Installed a clean v7.0 on a new server, and after removing
custome templates and add ins to the best of my ability, used the
copyfromdisk method to copy the OLD sme 6.01 data to the new server.

Answer:
If I understand you correctly, you may not have followed the recipe
correctly when upgrading your server. You should cleanup your custom
templates (templates-custom and templates-user-custom to be precise) AFTER
restoring your data from the old vs6 drive. Check steps 10 to 14 below, and
follow them strictly. Removing custom-templates before restore of old data
from your VS6 drive achieves nothing - just check relevant directories and
see what is there, probably some templates from the old VS6 drive, and
possibly your problem. Hope it helps.

On the new machine do the following:
1. Fresh install 7.0 {was 7.03)
2. Shut down.
3. Install old 6.0 drive and start machine.
4. cd /
5. mkdir /mnt/tmp
6. mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/tmp (adjust "hdb2" according to where the 6.0 drive
is installed).
7. /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup Program CopyFromDisk status
enabled
8. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event pre-restore
9. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event restore-tape /mnt/tmp
(note: this step may take a long time depending on how much data is being
restored)
10. cd /etc/e-smith
11. mv templates-custom templates-custom.old
12. mkdir templates-custom
13. mv templates-user-custom templates-user-custom.old
14. mkdir templates-user-custom
15. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
16. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
17. Shutdown and remove old VS6 drive