[arch-dev-public] Did archlinux.org crash while I was asleep or did I dream it??

[Paul Mattal]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I woke up this morning to two dozen django error messages that don't
>> make much sense given the current state of the code. They were mostly
>> for package searches but www.archlinux.org/feeds/news was also in the
>> list of error pages. These problems are not happening now that I am
>> awake.
>>
>> Did anyone do anything to possibly cause or rectify this situation?
>> eg: restart httpd or modpython, or make some changes in the
>> archweb_pub git repo?
>>
>> There don't seem to be any complaints, which leads me to believe that
>> maybe this didn't happen last night. Is there a chance that these
>> errors are pretty old and got stuck in the mail queue? There are no
>> dates logged with the errors so I can't check when they are said to
>> have occurred but one of the bugs being reported is something that I
>> thought I fixed several weeks ago.
> 
> I got the emails too, you're not crazy 8)

Entirely possible this had to do with mail queue stuck-age. Jan and I 
figured out a configuration change that will hopefully reduce the mail 
delay for mailman mail and he had made those changes sometime around 4am 
EDT.

- P