Re: [boost] Trac down?

Subject: Re: [boost] Trac down?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 11:36:54

On 1/28/2011 10:22 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>>> That's a serious impediment to building the 1.46.0 beta. I really
>>>> need the release manager's checklist from the trac.
>>>>
>>>> Are others able to access Trac?
>>>
>>> Not here.. And others seeing might actually be they are getting a
>>> locally cached version of the pages. Investigating..
>>
>> I restarted the server.. Which seems to have fixed things for me. Not
>> sure what happened to wedge it.
>
> Although I've had no issues connecting to Trac recently I have found that:
>
> * Often I get a cached page and don't see updates to an issue for example.
> * I've had trouble getting logged in so I can change tickets - logging
> in from the main page works OK, but from a trac issue page I don't get
> to see the "logged in view" even after logging in... which means some
> options aren't available for changing. It's all quite capricious though
> so I wouldn't like to try and provide a test case!

This is all an effect of too much caching on the client side. Not sure 
why this is happening. But you can recover on any page just by force 
reloading it.

Note, on the server there's actually some weird interplay between Apache 
and Trac both adding cache headers. Something to fix eventually :-\

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