ubuntuforums ENDLESSLY refreshing

[shaggy999]

I tried to post this in another forum, but I don't think it got through. Every single page on this forum is endlessly reloading. I have no idea why. This happens in both Firefox 3.5.4 and latest IE in Vista 64-bit. I have not tried in linux yet. Disabling javascript in Firefox stops the endless re-loading. This is very bizarre and annoying.

[00ber n00b]

Same here...LOL

[jonnan]

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10/Firefox 3.54 Friday night/Sat morning, but this only started today (i.e. worked yesterday without incident), so this may be coincidental.

As of today, every page on ubuntu forums seems to have suddenly started loading, re-loading, et al. I have tried enabling items (yahooapis.com, google analytics) in Noscript, cookies are allowed for the site (and it shows me logged-in), closed/re-opened firefox, cleared cache, etc, but the only work around thus far is simply (X) stop the website, then do what you need to do.

It is of course vaguely possible the issue is with my profile upgrading from 3.0 to 3.5 - I use febe so I *can* create a new profile and restore from back-up if necessary, but that's a bit of a pain and this is the only site (so far) I'm experiencing issues on.

So I thought it might not be unreasonable to check and see if anyone else has had issues or there's been an update to the site in the last 24 hours before I did that.

Thanks - Jonnan

[nelamvr6]

It was doing that to me too, but it's stopped now.

[shaggy999]

Yeah, I just re-enabled javascript and all is fine. Also IE works again as well.

[jonnan]

Just stopped - literally just as I posted a thread about thirty seconds ago looked at the forum and you had beat me posting. Now *THATS* service - <G>.

Thanks Much mysterious fast admin type guy/gal!!!

Jonnan

[XDevHald]

Still refreshing on my side :-p

EDIT: Ok followed steps on the thread (duh) and it works now. Thanks everyone.

[nelamvr6]

It started doing it again.

Meanwhile none of the other sites I have opened on other tabs are doing it.

It's just this site.

[kavon89]

still doing it

[NullHead]

It's doing it for me too.

[derek45]

My 9.04 machine is doing it too.

only on ubuntu forums.

[NoaHall]

Hm. It's slowed down the internet for me, but not rendered it useless. I expect the servers are under strain due to the update. Either that, or it's been hacked and you are all now taking part in DDoS attacks. That was a joke, btw.

[ubuntu27]

I had the same problem.
I thought the culprit was a recent Firefox extension that I installed called "ghostery". I disabled it, but the problem continued.

But, it is working now. The Admins must have fixed it.
What was the problem though? (Why did it happen?)

[sancho panza]

Why is this marked as solved? What exactly is the solution? I still have the same issue. Goes away when javascript is disabled via Scriptblocker.

This is probably an issue with this website.

[NoaHall]

I expect, it's a problem with reading the cookies via javascript.

[julz7]

I noticed that Firefox kept saying "Waiting for google-analytics.com" in the status bar. I added "http://www.google-analytics.com/*" to Adblock Plus. It stopped refreshing, and didn't continue after removing the filter. Since similar things happened by disabling JavaScript, this leads me to believe that it must be a problem with a script on google-analytics.com, and the only one that shows up under "Blockable Items" in ABP is "http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js".

[lisati]

Maybe related to this discussion: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309690

[NoaHall]

Maybe related to this discussion: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309690

Of course it is - it's the same problem.

[toupeiro]

I think I am also experiencing this problem. Whenever I tried to sign in a few hours ago, it said "Thank you for signing in, Toupeiro", then proceeded to prompt me to sign in again. It did this from 6 machines in total: 2 Ubuntu machins, 2 windows machines, a OpenSolaris machine and a nintendo Wii.

I was starting to think perhaps a recent situation I had regarding CoC and some other terms angered a mod enough to ip-restrict my account (which I would hope this site demands a higher calibur of maturity and ethics to represent their administration.) But it now sounds like its more related to this same problem all of you are experiencing.

I will say that after taking my family out to Breakfast, I cam back and was able to log in, nothing else has changed. Maybe UF knew I was hungry. :P

[Uncle Spellbinder]

This has gotten ridiculous. I mark a forum as read, refresh the page and everything appears as a new thread again.

This really needs to be addressed. Have the forums been hacked?

EDIT:
Example. I'm the last poster on this thread, but when I mark this forum as read, refresh the page, it appears as new again with toupeiro's post showing as the last post.

CRAZY

[Uncle Spellbinder]

The problem persists. This issue is NOT solved. The forums are barely navigable.

[NoaHall]

This has gotten ridiculous. I mark a forum as read, refresh the page and everything appears as a new thread again.

This really needs to be addressed. Have the forums been hacked?

EDIT:
Example. I'm the last poster on this thread, but when I mark this forum as read, refresh the page, it appears as new again with toupeiro's post showing as the last post.

CRAZY

This happens too. It might be a google problem, as youtube was/is down too.

[overdrank]

Threads merged

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Hopefully forum admins are looking into this. It's been like this all day. Nearly impossible to find threads with responses, read/not read.

Really needs a fix, quickly.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Threads merged

Might want to remove the [Solved] addition to the title.

It is FAR from solved.

[cariboo907]

I had the problem this morning when I first logged on, I thought it may have been Firefox, as there was an update last night. I installed chromium-browser from the ppa to see if that made any difference, during the installation chromium asked me to close Firefox which I did.

I had a different problem in Chromium, where I couldn't log on using my launchpad id, so once I did login, the pages wouldn't refresh, so I tried Firefox again and thinks worked the way they should again.

So for me, closing and reopening Firefox solved the problem.

[toupeiro]

I think I am also experiencing this problem. Whenever I tried to sign in a few hours ago, it said "Thank you for signing in, Toupeiro", then proceeded to prompt me to sign in again. It did this from 6 machines in total: 2 Ubuntu machins, 2 windows machines, a OpenSolaris machine and a nintendo Wii.

I was starting to think perhaps a recent situation I had regarding CoC and some other terms angered a mod enough to ip-restrict my account (which I would hope this site demands a higher calibur of maturity and ethics to represent their administration.) But it now sounds like its more related to this same problem all of you are experiencing.

I will say that after taking my family out to Breakfast, I cam back and was able to log in, nothing else has changed. Maybe UF knew I was hungry. :P


I was able to reproduce the problem above on Firefox, Midori, Opera and MSIE.

[shaggy999]

I marked this as 'solved' this morning when I re-enabled javascript and saw that things were working fine. Coming back to it right now (I've been gone all day) things appear to still be fine. Is anyone still having this issue? If so, I will try to remove the solved tag. But at this point it's solved for me.

[toupeiro]

Another reason why I hate merging threads. Yes, I JUST EXPERIENCED this problem, then all of a sudden, when I tried to respond to this message, it let me sign in.

[NullHead]

I noticed that Firefox kept saying "Waiting for google-analytics.com" in the status bar. I added "http://www.google-analytics.com/*" to Adblock Plus. It stopped refreshing, and didn't continue after removing the filter. Since similar things happened by disabling JavaScript, this leads me to believe that it must be a problem with a script on google-analytics.com, and the only one that shows up under "Blockable Items" in ABP is "http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js".

I think you may be on to something here. I checked here (http://www.google.com/appsstatus) and noticed this (http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&ddo=1&hl=en). Perhaps google is having issues with their analytics servers as well.

The problem is gone for me though. Not sure what fixed it.

[Cam42]

This happened to me, and a right click-> stop was what worked.

[sancho panza]

The problem seems to have been fixed/gone away for me, at least for now.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

The problem seems to have been fixed/gone away for me, at least for now.

Happening for me now. Can't mark any forum as read. Now way to tell new posts. Why is this not fixed????????

[shaggy999]

Happening for me now. Can't mark any forum as read. Now way to tell new posts. Why is this not fixed????????

From what I'm gathering, there's really nothing that can be done by the admins. This appears to be a problem on google's end.

[nmccrina]

I have noticed none of this craziness. In fact, I didn't even see this thread until now. At first glance, I assumed the title was talking about 'refreshing' in the way that Coke is (supposed to be) refreshing. <whisper>Aaaaaaah...</whisper> :D

[cariboo907]

@Uncle Spellbinder

Have you tried creating a new Firefox profile:

firefox -P

To see if that solves the problem? If it does work, you will have to reinstall the add-ons you use and transfer your bookmarks.

[tubunu]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309665&page=2