Main Puppy Linux Forum Down - Status
 

The main Puppy Linux Discussion forum at www.murga-linux.com/puppy is unreachable, (giving a 404 error). The reason is that the domain has expired.

http://www.domaincheck.co.uk/search_...m&submit=Check

If anyone reading has the contact details for John Murga - Domain administrator, would you please inform him....quickly :-)

If you need resolution to the recently discovered bug in the recently released Puppy Linux 4.2 in Abiword incorrectly displaying documents, this can be solved by installing the downgraded 2.6.3 abiword package from here


http://www.ecomoney.eu/puppy/pets/office/abiword-2.6.3-updated.pet

As a point of contact (all other forums are unreachable) would people please post updates to this situation here.

Ecomoney

Apparently it was a temporary situation. I just tried it with no problems.

Up and down again
 

I was on the murga forum yesterday, but this morning it is "failed to connect" again. Does anyone know anything about it?

Just that I still can't get to it at 6:00PM US Eastern!!

Barry's Blog

http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00646

Puppy Linux Forum - murgalinux.com
 

Well, I certainly can't argue against that, but it's quite a coincidence.

Yes,...I miss my frequent "jaunts" into the Puppy kennels over at the forum! (I'm "nitehawk" over there,...)....
Guess we'll have to wait 'til after this Easter then <sighs deeply>

You could try out Todd's Puppy forum for your daily Puppy "kick" :)

http://www.toddrichardson.com/forum/index.php

I think I like it better than Linux Questions. The format there reminds me a bit more of our own kennels at Murga.

Todd's forum doesn't have much to offer with only 7 topics and a total of only 31 posts.

Main Puppy Linux forum down again!
 

Title says it all - the Murga Puppy forum is down again. :( As of 4/9/2009 8:48 PM, I get "can't establish a connection to the server at www.murga-linux.com." It's been down all day...

Can someone pass this info on to the right folks? Is there anything we as a group can do to make this happen less often?

If Murga's forum keeps messing up it will get bigger. Todd's forum has only been operating about a month, at least there is an option for a forum that works!!!!!!!

I sent John Murga and email. Or at least I think I did. Is this "john AT murga DOT org" his email? There's a parallel post running here

You're assuming that Todd's forum would work under a full load. That may be true or it may not be true. So far, I haven't seen any evidence that Todd's forum would function any better than Murga's if it had to endure the same loads that Murga's forum has been getting.

The other thread on this same topic has already been following the current downtime.

Great point.However, one doesn't know until it gets under a bigger load.Until then though, it's good to have options.

Woohoo! Forum's back up guys! I'm just not sure if it is permanent.

True - but the TITLE of the first thread is for an earlier outage. I posted again to make more people aware that there is still a current problem. It would be nice if the person who started the first thread revised the title to reflect the current situation as well.

I have merged the two threads. Sites with issues do go up and down and there's little point in raising a new thread each time. I have stickied this thread so that anyone on the PuppyLinux forums looking for info on what's happening, or even to post the reasons for problems, can post them here.

What are the odds of it being permanent? ;)

The forum was up again when I tried it a couple of hours ago.

Now it's down again.

If some evil genius had wanted to discourage potential Puppy Linux users, they couldn't have devised a better way of doing it than these frequent, lengthy Puppy forum outages.

It's up again, at this moment. Seems very slow.
 

Title says it all.

New Host
 

Yes, apparently it was a problem with the domain name being renewed. Good news is over on BarryK's blog John said that he was going to move the forum over to a new host!!! No more waiting for posts/searches! :D

Would someone please post a link to BarryK's blog. I've searched and searched, and I've found a few different things that were called Barry's blog, but most of them are old and none of them mention John moving the forums. As a relatively new Puppy user, it looks to me like everyone talks about Barry's blog, but they always assume that everyone already knows where it is, instead of posting a link to it.

Bob, I find this useful,
http://www.puppylinux.org/home
and the barry's blog is
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?page=1

HTH.. RP

Thank you for taking the time to post those links, racepres. ;)

Google helped me find both of those earlier, but I still can't find Barry's blog entry that ecomoney was referring to when he wrote:

:scratch:

NEVER MIND - I found it. Murga's statement is in one of the many comments underneath this blog entry.

Easter Sunday, 1:25 PM EST. The Puppy Linux forums are down again.

I hope that John Murga will rethink his statement that he's going to move the forums to a new web host "in a couple of months."

Thats a good idea....but.......

Ive just logged on and the forum is down again :-(

Ive dropped a message to John-Murga via skype, but his status is currently "away".

Any news anyone? I hear the forum is undergoing some maintenance at the moment so this is to be expected.

I will change the title of the thread when it is back up, as it pops up fourth under a google search for "puppy linux forum"!

The forum's down again.
I'm trying to get mountcifs-1.5.pet off the forum and I can't find it anywhere else. If anybody has it please send it to me. I'm probably to impatient:rolleyes:



Edit: Ok I got it thanks

It's back up now.

Back down for anyone else besides me?

I haven't been able to get into the forums today either,....

They're down for me again, too. That's really weird -- just this morning, I read a comment in one Puppy thread that said something like, "Now it's time for the Puppy forums to go down for a month again."

It seems like I can't get onto the forums every other weekend.
Are there any plans to repair/replace the server?

There is supposed to be a big upgrade coming in the near future.Hopefully that is what is causing today's downtime.

Sure miss the resources
 

from the forums, when it's down. They sure help with problems, new pets, etc.

Forum's up
 

Forum's up.

Puppy Forum is down again TODAY!!!
 

:mad: DOWN AGAIN!!!

Its down
 

Its down for me too.

Ditto!

The usual bi-monthly forum problems.Been down for about 17 hours here.

Anyone know if there's an actual reason it's down? Just wondering if I missed a big announcement or something. Could John be doing some big upgrade, or is it just the usual stuff?

By the way, I can't seem to get into Todd's alternate Puppy Linux forum, according to this site, it's just me but I'm not sure.

Murga had a message at the top of the forum for a few days prior saying that he was going to be having a huge server change starting on the 25th. I gather that's the reason it's down.

Todd's forum has been off-line for at least a couple of weeks.meant to mention it on Murga's but forgot.

Ahhh, so that's why. Thanks for shedding some light Brymway :)

perhaps I should have saved that gslapt-4.0.pet archive before I redid my Puppy.

Hello

Gposil has a few alternate forums.. (or is it fora?)
http://www.petstore.puppyspace.org/forum
http://puppyspace.gposil.com/forum/

and there is always http://www.puppylinux.org

Search around... there is always a Puppy fix!

Cheers

Back up again.

John's Puppy forum is down again with this error:
Critical Error

message_die() was called multiple times.
Error #2
SQL requests not achieved

Line : 665
File : /home/murga-linux/public_html/puppy/includes/class_user_session.php
SQL : SELECT session_id FROM phpbb_sessions WHERE session_user_id = -1 AND session_id <> '6e0af7fcba1d24e49b3aa91da8869d9e' AND session_time >= 1250080514 AND session_ip = '432a35ac' LIMIT 1

Error #1
SQL requests not achieved

Line : 665
File : /home/murga-linux/public_html/puppy/includes/class_user_session.php
SQL : SELECT session_id FROM phpbb_sessions WHERE session_user_id = -1 AND session_id <> '424f8e20a06806bca91219cda926b911' AND session_time >= 1250080514 AND session_ip = '432a35ac' LIMIT 1