Upgrade to 2.0.19

[Handruin]

Let me know where you find problems.

[Handruin]

test

[Tannin]

Working just fine for me.

[sechs]

The navigation menu is still two lines for me.

[Handruin]

Which phpbb theme are you using? Which browser? What resolution is your screen and/or is your browser maximized? A screen capture would be worth 1000 words if you don't want to answer all those questions.

[mubs]

I seem to have lost my cookie and keep having to login. I've gone into FF and told it again to keep SF cookies. If it continues to be a problem, I'll let you know.

[MaxBurn]

I had to blow away my SF cookies to log back in with firefox 1.5.

[mubs]

I still have to log in; Firefox 1.5 shows that SF cookies are allowed and stored. I think they are expiring too soon. I have 3 of them for SF; 2 are set to expire at end of session, and the third today at 7:22 pm (it's now 7:24 pm).

[Handruin]

Maybe the session is stuck in the database. I can flush them out later tonight, but it will log everyone off when I do it.

[Handruin]

I wonder why the cookie/session thing happens after an upgrade. I'm able to remember my login. I don't normally use this feature, so I'm wondering if I had prior to the upgrade, if I'd be seeing your issue.

[Fushigi]

I had to re-login immediately post-upgrade, but I checked the 'remember me' box and haven't had to since. No big deal, especially since firefox remembers my ID & pwd anyway...

[mubs]

Thanks, Handy. I had to log in again and got a new cookie, set to expire in one year (Jan 6, 2007).

[Handruin]

Now I need to hear back from sechs or anyone else who is having a similar problem with the menu being two lines.

[Fushigi]

Now I need to hear back from sechs or anyone else who is having a similar problem with the menu being two lines.You mean this?

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[mubs]

My cookie's gone again; don't know why. Had to login. Am I the only one with this problem?

[sechs]

Now I need to hear back from sechs or anyone else who is having a similar problem with the menu being two lines.You mean this?

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Actually, like this:
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sechs ]

The problem is that the size of the table that the pages use to for the navigation bar are hard-set in the code. Resizing the window does nothing to solve the issue; browser should be irrelevant.

[mubs]

Sechs: I can make my screen look like yours if I increase the font size in Firefox 5.5 (CTRL+mouse scroll). At the size setting I have, it's all on one line.

[CityK]

Actually, like this:
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sechs ]
Yep. Same thing with me.

[LunarMist]

My cookie's gone again; don't know why. Had to login. Am I the only one with this problem?

I always have had to log in each time I post on SF.

[mubs]

LM:

I don't know what browser you're using; in Firefox 1.5 (and earlier versions as well), I've got it set to delete all cookies when I close the browser. I've also told it to keep certain cookies and not delete them; SF was one of these sites, and each time I visited SF, the site knew who I was thru the cookie, and I never had to log in.

After this upgrade, I have to log in each time. The site set a cookie valid for 1 year, but is not reading it; instead it is setting a cookie that expires at the end of the session and so I have to log-in each time I visit.

[CougTek]

The forums look just like they did before. No two lines titlebar for me. The titlebar would have to be pretty long to need two lines for me : my desktop is 1680 pixels wide.

[Handruin]

I've renamed the cookie used at storageforum to a new name. I've also emptied the session table in the database. Now, everyone should be logged out and require a new cookie. Let me know if that helped any.

[Handruin]

I've removed the hard-coded <td> width value for the menu links. Has that helped with the text-wrap issue?

[Handruin]

I've even tried increasing my browser font size to an inappropriately large value and the text links did not wrap to the second line.

[Tannin]

I needed a new cookie just after the original upgrade, then another one just now. I think that suggests that everything is working normally, at least for me.

[Fushigi]

I've removed the hard-coded <td> width value for the menu links. Has that helped with the text-wrap issue?Yes, thank you!

[Handruin]

Glad to hear both items are helping a little. I'll wait to hear from others bother I claim victory. :)

[Mercutio]

Well, this is the fourth time I've had to log in this year on this computer this year. I usually go about 6 months without needing to log in. :(

[Handruin]

Is it still happening? This most recent login is understandable with the cookie name change. I log in multiple times per day; 4 times this month isn't so bad. ;)

[mubs]

Doug, I'm not complaining, just trying to let you know what's happening.

The site is setting two cookies, one to expire at the end of the session and another that expires at the end of a year (2007).

But it appears to not look for the one-year cookie on a subsequent visit. That is why it is still making me log-in for every session. And since i've told FF not to delete SF cookies, the number of "expire at end of session cookies" keeps growing till I manually clear them out.

Why have you not set your browser to keep SF cookies and instead log-in several times a day?

[sechs]

I've removed the hard-coded <td> width value for the menu links. Has that helped with the text-wrap issue?

Seems to be fixed. Is this default behavior for the board, or did you code it this way?

Since Fx1.5 now displays OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines, I switched by default font to Helvetica. That made the wrap obvious, as the text was *always* longer that the cell.

[Handruin]

I coded it that way. Which means I need to go fix the rest of the other templates for phpbb.

No worries mubs, I'm not taking it as complaining. I'd like to figure out what causes the problem.

What extensions are you using with firefox? I'm not having the same problem as you while using FF 1.5.

I don't set the cookie because I don't always like to login. Sometimes I want more time to read all the new posts and if I login and don't have enough time, I'll lose the marking for new posts. I also don't want to chance letting anyone else use my account. It's not so much a concern on my home PC as it is other places I login from.

[mubs]

Thanks, Doug.

The only extensions I have installed are :
Tab Mix Plus 0.2.5.2
netcrafttoolbar 1.1.1

This same set up worked flawlessly with SF before the upgrade; I haven't made any changes at all to my set up in the last several weeks. Except to keep my AVG updated and installing the MS WMF patch.

[Handruin]

I'll go back and look through the change logs to see if there is a possible cause. I wouldn't suspect your AVG or WMF updates causing any problems.

So, are you doing something different with the cookies rather than using the default behavour of the browser?

[mubs]

Nope. I have FF set to delete cookies when I close it. I also have exceptions defined for sites that I want cookies not to be deleted. SF is one of the exceptions. Before the upgrade, things were just fine; my SF cookie(s) logged me in automatically. I haven't made any change to the way cookies are handled.

I cleared SF cookies and logged in just now. Here are the cookies that were set:

1)
Name: sfphpbb2_t
Send for: Any type of connection
Expires: at end of session

2)
Name: sfphpbb2_sid
Send for: Any type of connection
Expires: at end of session

3)
Name: sfphpbb2_data
Send for: Any type of connection
Expires: Monday, January 08, 2007 09:02:33 a

I would think that #3 should do the trick, but apparently it is not being read when I come back. I will test this hypothesis when I come back to the site and post my findings.

[mubs]

Update:

I closed the browser, and when I started it again, the end-of-session cookies were gone (#1 & #2); #3 was still there.

When I logged in now, I got 2 new end-of session cookies. Cookies #3, the data cookie, was either replaced or updated to expire on Monday, January 08, 2007 12:03:16 p.

[MaxBurn]

Just had a bout of the page taking forever (30 seconds or so?) to load and the first time it did it asked me to log in again.

[Handruin]

MaxBurn, I've had that happen a couple times in the past but it's not often. Did you end up losing all the new post notifications as a result of it? Let me know if you see it again or on a regular basis. I've seen it very infrequent, so I didn't dig any deeper into it.

mubs, I'm still perplexed at your problem with the cookies. I see the same cookies, but I'm not seeing the same problem. I looked through the change logs and nothing is obvious to me. That doesn't mean something else is causing the problem.

I'm going to remove all my SF related cookies and try again to see if i can reproduce this. I'll try applying the same exceptions that you have.

[CougTek]

Just had a bout of the page taking forever (30 seconds or so?) to load and the first time it did it asked me to log in again.
That same thing has just happened to me and yes, I lost all the new post notifications.

[Handruin]

mubs, when you allowed the cookies in the exception window, did you select "allow" or "allow session" for SF?

I realize this all worked fine for you before the upgrade (I can't yet explain why this is happening). But for then life of me, I can't reproduce the issue with my current FF 1.5 and cookie settings similar to yours.

[CougTek]

Don't lose sleep over it. It's not like we are paying for a service. The site is fine overall. Relax.

[Handruin]

I just submitted a support ticket related to the poor performance (including your 30 second lag timeouts). My guess is those are being recorded as MySQL slow queries and somehow php might be timing out. However, typically it takes 60 seconds for the default timeout...they may have changed that.

The load values are constantly high and I don't see them coming down any time soon. I'll let you know what happens. They're forum suggested that new hardware and good changes are coming. One can only hope they stick us on a dual opteron or something neat like that.

[MaxBurn]

MaxBurn, I've had that happen a couple times in the past but it's not often. Did you end up losing all the new post notifications as a result of it? Let me know if you see it again or on a regular basis. I've seen it very infrequent, so I didn't dig any deeper into it.

Basically it went like this, I load the forum which takes a long time and when I get there I notice I am not logged in again. Go to login and after entering my user and pass it would sit there for a while and then after some time it will log me in and I can see the forum. It did not clear my viewed threads, those were still marked as viewed for me. Plain hung up during user authentication? This whole process happened a couple times yesterday.

At any rate it's fine for me today at 7:40 eastern US, and the problem was a peak time last night so I suppose it is a usage issue.

BTW, Firefox 1.5 and I have SF saved to allow cookies.

[mubs]

Don't lose sleep over it. It's not like we are paying for a service. The site is fine overall. Relax.
Thank you, Doug, but I'll second what Coug said. It's not worth you spending extra time on it. Take more pics instead. :)