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Message started by Kimberly on 04/25/04 at 14:43:32

Title: Dieter ... it's now a mystery
Post by Kimberly on 04/25/04 at 14:43:32

Hey Dieter :) ... that prob I briefly mentioned yesterday has turned into a *Scooby Doo* mystery ;D ... so I'm here asking for your guess, no one else seems to have any ideas ...

Here's the soap opera ...

My e-mails started bouncing, couldn't ftp, and the auction started doing what I'll explain below ... went to the server status it had red lights at ... Server Load 1.86 (1 cpu) and Disk hda8 (/home) DMA+ 100 % ... according to my server guy it was overloaded by some customer somewhere ... server guy brought it back up, shows all is well, my e-mail is working, I can ftp again ... but the auction is still failing ...

When you go to ->>
http://zerofeesauction.com/cgi-bin/eAuction161/eAuction.pl
... you get ... "Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at eAuction.pl line 3539. " ... line 3539 = $the_bid = (read_bid($bids[-1]))->[2];

When you click a category, like this one ->> http://zerofeesauction.com/cgi-bin/eAuction161/eAuction.pl?action=search&searchtype=items&searchstring=wych〈=1 ...
I get ... "Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at eAuction.pl line 751. "
... line 751 = @lastbid = @{read_bid($bids[-1])};
... but one gal went to that URL, she got ...
"Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at eAuction.pl line 2620. " ... line 2620 = @lastbid = @{read_bid($bids[-1])};

Also, when you click on some other categories, you can see everything just fine ... I was able to post an auction in that above category, I can see that auction, but when I click the category, nothing ... I was able to register --no problem ...

Any guesses??? 8)

Title: Re: Dieter ... it's now a mystery
Post by Kimberly on 04/25/04 at 15:09:24

I fixed it ... I'm headed out the door ... I'll stop back later tonight and tell you all the boring detail ... so that if you ever hear of this happening again, you'll be the expert ;)

Yay! It's back up ;D

Title: Re: Dieter ... it's now a mystery
Post by Forum Admin on 04/25/04 at 16:19:22

I like to become an expert ;D

Title: Re: Dieter ... it's now a mystery
Post by Kimberly on 04/26/04 at 04:51:14

The end of the soap opera ;D

Tested all the features again ... signed up for a new registration, no prob ... could post an auction, could view that auction, but I couldn't view the auction category ... ??? ... bid on my auction, no prob ... ??? ... I decided to check every category and found -> some worked, some got "Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at eAuction.pl line 751. " ... line 751 = " @lastbid = @{read_bid($bids[-1])}; " ... ???! ... there's that bid thing again ... ???

I tried all categories ... a few showed up just fine ... ???! ... I opened up each auction file in a failed category file ... I was trying to see what made some categories different than others ... and yo!!! ... I found a blank file in a failed category ... deleted it ... the category still didn't show ... ugh! ... though a few files later, I found another blank file ... deleted it ... went through all and deleted all the blank files ... and yup!!! ... the auction category showed kinda empty without all those deleted auctions/files, but it still showed ...

I went through every category and when they failed I checked the files ... all categories that failed had empty/blank auction files ... when they were deleted, the auction was back to normal!!!

My assumption is that people were looking at these auctions when the server got all glitched up ... and when it crashed, the files must have saved blank ... so when the program was looking for the bid to display, it couldn't find it because it was erased ... frustrating, yet cool prob ... huh?! --okay, I admit it, I am a bit geeky at times 8)