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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2012-09-22 06:23 pm
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Code push tonight

A reminder to all that we will be doing a code push tonight. We'll be starting the prepwork in a few hours (around 6PM PDT/9PM EDT/1AM UTC), and the actual push itself will likely be an hour or two after that.

As I mentioned last time, this is a "higher risk" push. Sometimes we're only pushing frontend changes that have very little chance of causing site-wide problems, and any bugs we didn't catch in testing (because there are always bugs we don't catch in testing!) are only likely to be display bugs or the occasional weird error on a single page. This push has a lot of backend changes, though, and the differences between our production setup (the site itself) and our testing setup mean that there's a greater chance of things going a little wonky. (That's a technical term.)

So, there may be unexpected downtime as part of the push, and there may be weird site-wide errors after we come back up. We will be watching for them, and if they happen, we'll fix them as quickly as we can. Don't worry! We'll be on it.
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[personal profile] got_swagger 2012-09-22 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the heads-up and good luck! I'm sure it will be awesome!
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[personal profile] dragondancer5150 2012-09-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Looking forward to seeing how things end up! 8D
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Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
In Firefox 15.0.1 only, in both normal and Safe Mode browsing, and after clearing cache, cookies, and History, my Communities Reading Page (link: http://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/read?show=C) is not loading the page body background image (screen cap of problem at: http://i.imgur.com/dIzSU.jpg). I tried changing the background image location from body to html to #container and adding the !important declaration in all three places but the problem persisted. I checked the same page in Opera 12, IE9, Safari whatever its latest version is, but it is not occurring in any other browsers, as far as I can tell. I have nothing else left to change or troubleshoot that I can think of, so I thought I would let you know in case it's related to tonight's code push.
Edited (more info) 2012-09-23 01:04 (UTC)
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[staff profile] denise 2012-09-23 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
We haven't started yet, so no. :) Probably something to do with Firefox interpreting your CSS weirdly, or somehow the image not being available.
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
OK, thanks for letting me know. The weird thing is, when I switch the CSS over to http://style-test.dreamwidth.org/read?show=C (my code-testing DW, which is already running an older version of my style using Transmog), the page background loads perfectly in Firefox, which leads me to believe it's not exactly my CSS at fault. I just checked my CSS at W3C, for what that's worth, and while it does have a bunch of "property doesn't exist" warnings for all the CSS3 I'm using, and a few for my @media CSS, nothing else is sticking out for me as The Problem. I'm thinking the only thing left for me to do is disable my custom theme layer and see if that fixes it (but what could be in that layer making this happen is anyone's guess; I haven't messed with it in weeks and besides, that Reading page was displaying the background fine right through last night).
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[staff profile] denise 2012-09-23 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Did you clear your cache? Could be that the page loaded and wasn't able to reach the image host, then cached the bad version.
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, cleared cache, history, cookies, everything, multiple times on multiple Firefox re-starts. Disabled cache, cookies, and Javascript using Web Dev's tools to do so, re-started, blah blah blah. Just erased my theme layer, then did a hard refresh, yada yada. Nothing is helping/working/fixing it. Also used Web Dev to disable, one at a time, every style sheet I have in use (DW's and mine) and still got the same error. The same CSS on this DW works fine on style_test on the same page in question so considering I've disabled the theme layer on this DW and still get the same error? I am seriously stumped. I'm thinking at this point I'll just make a Support Request since I don't know what else to do.

Edited (typos/added edits to wrong reply, whoops) 2012-09-23 02:43 (UTC)
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] momijizukamori 2012-09-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
FWIW, the background image loads fine for me in FF (15.0.1, Linux)
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
On this page, as well? http://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/read?show=C That's the only page view, asfaik, that I'm having any problem with. And it just won't go away no matter what I do or try. I filed a Support Request for it just now but I feel sorry for whoever takes it, because it's got me as stumped as I've ever been.
Edited (typos) 2012-09-23 02:38 (UTC)
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[staff profile] denise 2012-09-23 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
I see it there with no problems, too.
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Before you replied, was going to edit my reply above to add: "maybe that's it, though: You're on Linux. I'm on Win 7, and after I saw that page for the last time last night but before I turned the computer back on today, it downloaded a crapload of updates before shutting down - I'm thinking I'll go check the page on my phone now and see if it happens on Android or not - maybe it's a weird Win 7 error owing to, I'm not kidding, the 8,000 updates it installed last night".

Hmmmm.

(edit: shows up fine on my phone, too! maybe I'm onto something here with it being Win 7 at fault. I don't know if it's worth doing a System Restore to find out, but maybe if I get a lot of free time on my hands this week I'll give that a go, too.)
Edited (more info) 2012-09-23 02:48 (UTC)
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
OK, I think I figured it out (decided to do System Restore while DW was down, but that changed nothing) - it's this entry at fault (warning, you will scroll for years): http://changelog.dreamwidth.org/1221549.html

When viewed in my style, it breaks the background image, which doesn't resume until about midway through the post (screencap of resumption point: http://i.imgur.com/yZNfm.jpg) . HTML in question is here (2,691 errors, mostly <wbr>
-related, mostly from the evil github post in question: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmarahmarie.dreamwidth.org%2Fread%3Fshow%3DC)

Previous 20 on show=C displays background image perfectly even in Firefox so I'm going to presume this problem is solved and close my Support Request - and thanks for the input. :)
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] momijizukamori 2012-09-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, even there - http://i.imgur.com/X7sCW.png
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Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! As explained in my reply to Denise above (which was actually my edited reply to you, but she replied before I could finish editing my reply), Win 7 installed 8k updates last night after I last saw that page still working. Thinking I need to do a System Restore to see if I can back up to a point before those updates - my hunch now is it may be some really, really weird update error in this OS.
marahmarie: (M In M Forever) (Default)

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[personal profile] marahmarie 2012-09-23 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
OK, I think I figured it out (decided to do System Restore while DW was down, but that changed nothing) - it's this entry at fault (warning, you will scroll for years): http://changelog.dreamwidth.org/1221549.html

When viewed in my style, it breaks the background image, which doesn't resume until about midway through the post (screencap of resumption point: http://i.imgur.com/yZNfm.jpg) . HTML in question is here (2,691 errors, mostly <wbr>
-related, mostly from the evil github post in question: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmarahmarie.dreamwidth.org%2Fread%3Fshow%3DC)

Previous 20 on show=C displays background image perfectly even in Firefox so I'm going to presume this problem is solved and close my Support Request - and thanks for the input. :)
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[personal profile] ein_myria 2012-09-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the update. Could I request worldwide time converters for future code pushes? :) I'm currently at +8GMT here, and the "code push tonight" made me a little confused. :) (I noticed you had it in the previous post; it would be easy to copy and paste)
Edited 2012-09-23 01:18 (UTC)
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[staff profile] denise 2012-09-23 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sorry, forgot to grab the link from the previous post -- I was trying to get this posted before I forgot. :)
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