Topic: Torrentflux suddenly not working anymore

[SuperGrover]

Since today, I cannot login to b4rt anymore. I (ofcourse) tried removing, killing both the user AND the b4rt database and reinstalling.

I get to see the login screen the first time, it makes my user and the database (both b4rt), but when I try to login to http://myserversip/torrent/index.php?iid=index I get nothing. Only a white screen in FireFox. I have used b4rt since a couple of years (6 maybe) and this has never happened before.

Anybody who can help me to find the error?

Recent updates have (to my opinion) no influence on b4rt:

from yum.log

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Feb 13 13:16:04 Updated: libuser.i386 0.52.5-1.1.el4_8.1
Feb 13 13:16:05 Updated: postgresql-libs.i386 7.4.30-1.el4_8.2
Feb 13 13:16:05 Updated: unrar.i386 4.0.4-1.el4.rf
Feb 20 11:15:30 Updated: unrar.i386 4.0.6-1.el4.rf
Feb 27 12:38:38 Installed: tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0.beta2-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 12:38:41 Installed: smeserver-tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 12:46:09 Installed: tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0.beta2-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 12:46:12 Installed: smeserver-tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 12:52:48 Installed: tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0.beta2-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 12:52:51 Installed: smeserver-tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 16:07:43 Installed: tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0.beta2-1.el4.sme
Feb 27 16:07:46 Installed: smeserver-tf-b4rt.noarch 1.0-1.el4.sme

I worked YESTERDAY 

[Stefano]

what about looking into logs searching for the reason?

the "remove and reinstall" approach is something that should apply only to windows

(my 5000th post )

[Curly]

I had the same, found this

[Sat Feb 26 13:26:30 2011] [notice] child pid 15690 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

in the error_log of apache. I did several things that did not help:
- restart apache
- rebooted
In the end I cleared out some of the tables associated with Torrentflux, and it worked again. I think I cleared out tf_transfers and tf_transfer_totals). I would advise you to make a backup before you try this.

I had already noticed Torrentflux becoming slower, especially when I started to run a new torrent.

I'm not sure a remove-install wipes the database.

[SuperGrover]

Hmmm, tried one other thing which I forgot before:

after installing a rm -rf on the b4rt directory

Reinstalled, and it's up and running again 

Thanks for the help, in phpMyAdmin, its easy to delete both the user AND the database b4rt from the PRIVILEGES function.

Grtz

[muzzy]

Update: using phpmyadmin i cleared the below mentioned bits but i still have the same problem any help would be great to try sort this.

Hi

i just started having this problem this afternoon out of the blue can i ask how you clear out the tables its driving me nuts.

cheers

Andy

I had the same, found this

[Sat Feb 26 13:26:30 2011] [notice] child pid 15690 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

in the error_log of apache. I did several things that did not help:
- restart apache
- rebooted
In the end I cleared out some of the tables associated with Torrentflux, and it worked again. I think I cleared out tf_transfers and tf_transfer_totals). I would advise you to make a backup before you try this.

I had already noticed Torrentflux becoming slower, especially when I started to run a new torrent.

I'm not sure a remove-install wipes the database.

[Curly]

I used phpmyadmin to clear the tables, so you're good with that.

I think that the tables tf_xfer and tf_log could be cleared also, although I didn't clear the last one.

Somewhere inside Torrentflux must be a query that generates too much results, causing Apache to crash. 

[muzzy]

ok just tried clearing those entrys still no joy its got me confused there is no evidence of apache crashing i thought maybe the php was crashing but it also looks fine.

[Curly]

>> there is no evidence of apache crashing

Check the logs of Apache for what's happening. /var/log/httpd/error_log should tell you what's going wrong. I had:

error_log.20110222011202:[Sat Feb 26 13:34:17 2011] [notice] child pid 16336 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

[muzzy]

this is what i get

[Thu Mar 10 17:21:28 2011] [notice] child pid 9156 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Mar 10 18:29:54 2011] [notice] child pid 9154 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Mar 10 18:33:12 2011] [error] [client 189.126.109.137] File does not exist: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/web-console
[Thu Mar 10 19:37:20 2011] [notice] child pid 9159 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Mar 10 19:37:20 2011] [notice] child pid 9534 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Mar 10 19:37:21 2011] [notice] child pid 9746 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Mar 10 20:23:50 2011] [error] [client 174.129.217.195] File does not exist: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/web-console
[Thu Mar 10 22:04:40 2011] [notice] child pid 9691 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
 

[CharlieBrady]

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error_log.20110222011202:[Sat Feb 26 13:34:17 2011] [notice] child pid 16336 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

"Segmentation fault (11)" indicates either a hardware problem, or a bug in apache or one of the apache modules you have installed. I think in your case it is most likely a bug in php.

[imcintyre]

After last updates, I have similar issue;
I receive this message:

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.mydomain.ca/torrent/index.php?
The following error was encountered:
•Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is admin@mydomain.ca.

I also checked error logs

[notice] child pid 5413 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Did anybody else receive the error above? 

[Curly]

I don't use squid, but the segmentation fault looks familiar.

>> the "remove and reinstall" approach is something that should apply only to windows

I cleared out some tables and the hidden directory .transfers . The windows-approach should do the same, so that would work imho. For me, the cleaning has worked twice.

I agree that a "remove and reinstall" is ugly.

[muzzy]

I did post a bug in the bug tracker but nothing more has come of it and to cap it all off it ended up killing my webpage and webmail access. after a restart to resolve this the server now fails to start. so i am now looking at have to format and start again.

After last updates, I have similar issue;
I receive this message:

I also checked error logs
Did anybody else receive the error above?

[CharlieBrady]

I did post a bug in the bug tracker but nothing more has come of it and to cap it all off it ended up killing my webpage and webmail access. after a restart to resolve this the server now fails to start. so i am now looking at have to format and start again.

That won't help you if it is a problem with your RAM (you should do a memory test) or if there is a bug in PHP, which is the other possibility.  I guess if you are lucky, it is a bug in PHP which only manifests when you have certain files on your system. If you reformat, it will work for a little time, until those files get created again, when you will see the problem again.

[imcintyre]

I ran memtest+ for 9 hours with no errors, so I uninstalled and will reinstall.

Did it, not good.

Used instruction in wiki (rpm -e tf-b4rt smeserver-tf-b4rt) to uninstall and dropped database using phpmyadmin.

Reinstalled as per wiki, apparently ok.

So I'm able to log on as superadmin, update various settings but when I try to go to the home page, I get the cannot connect  error message.

Time to raise a bug?