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Broken emojo caused site outage, (self.main)
submitted 2 years ago by supakaity to c/main
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I have a process which copies emojos from the hajkey blahaj.zone site to our lemmy.

Last night (for me) it copied an invalid emojo into the database and it broke lemmy for hours while Ada and I were sleeping.

I've found the issue and fixed it now, so everything should be purring along once again, but for those who were left without the instance to use, I sincerely apologise.

blobcat, sorry

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[-] leigh 30 points 2 years ago

No worries, things happen — and you’re community-building volunteers, not an on-call rotation. 💜 I’m just glad we’re back now! Thanks for your efforts during these past 24 hours. 🏳️‍⚧️😊

[-] PaigePalisade 22 points 2 years ago

I'm going to imagine that :capybara_animated: was chewing on the server racks

animated, capybara

[-] ada 11 points 2 years ago

That checks out

[-] amber 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

animated, capybara thanks for the update! what emojo was it

[-] supakaity 28 points 2 years ago

It wasn't an actual emojo. The script processed the SQL header column names as an emojo and tried to add them. Unfortunately publicUrl is not a valid URL, so lemmy's /api/v3/site metadata endpoint started returning an error relative URL without a base instead of the JSON that the website was expecting and so the site just stopped working for everyone the next time it tried to load that url.

[-] bamboo 11 points 2 years ago

This coincided with me resetting my password, and I thought I brought down the site somehow

[-] wetnoodle 16 points 2 years ago

happy the best instance is back up!! crabrave

[-] smoldragon 8 points 2 years ago

Glad to be back and thanks for your hard work!

[-] Krrygon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Excellent news! The site loads perfectly for me. I am still unable to log in for some reason, but that could just be a me thing.

[-] wetnoodle 8 points 2 years ago

clear your cookies/cache for this site, it should work after that

[-] Krrygon 9 points 2 years ago

It works! I am back in the blahaj zone. Feels good.

[-] LuckingFurker 5 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all you do, dear admins ❤️

[-] Wirlocke 5 points 2 years ago

I was worried that it got hacked again, since that just happened. Glad that Blahaj lives again!

[-] stercar 5 points 2 years ago

So glad it‘s up again. I was thinking it was something like that since it kept giving a parsing error when I was trying to log in. Good that it‘s fixed now.

[-] essi 4 points 2 years ago

It happens! Thanks for the writeup, and good work bringing things back online again :)

[-] Devious_Thoughts 4 points 2 years ago

Appreciate the fix, but I am having trouble uploading images, wonder if anyone else is having them?

[-] supakaity 2 points 2 years ago

Should be fixed now

[-] djstini 4 points 2 years ago

{"data":{"msg":"Couln't upload file, Error in DB, IO error: Os { code: 28, kind: StorageFull, message: "No space left on device" }","files":null},"state":"success"}

Hmm, still getting errors, for example when trying to upload profile images

[-] supakaity 2 points 2 years ago

Should be fixed now.

[-] alx 4 points 2 years ago

Welcome back to the Friends From Sweden and thank you to the admins

[-] Rozauhtuno 4 points 2 years ago

Mistakes happen, I'm just happy the instance is back up.

[-] moss 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can't log into the website now. It tells me I logged in successfully, then simply doesn't log me in. Jerboa still works fine tho

[-] jdp23 2 points 2 years ago

What browser are you using? I have that issue in Firefox, but not in Chrome.

[-] moss 1 points 2 years ago

Firefox yeah

[-] Xtallll 2 points 2 years ago

After the Hack they changed the secret key, you have to clear the cookies for Lemmy.Blahja.zone and re-login.

[-] moss 1 points 2 years ago

I already did that it's not working

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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