Login Issues

Login Issues

Re: Login Issues Posted by Gwil on Sun Nov 1st 2009 at 4:50pm
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Posted 2009-11-01 4:50pm
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If you are having any troubles logging in today, please don't hesitate to contact me on Steam/MSN (listed in my profile). It seems there may be a few bugs with cookies, I myself have had the problem.
Re: Login Issues Posted by Gwil on Sun Nov 1st 2009 at 7:07pm
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Posted 2009-11-01 7:07pm
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The quickest way to fix it (it seems) is to manually remove your snarkpit.net cookies, then relogin.

If you are getting a password error, reset your password.
Re: Login Issues Posted by Gwil on Sun Nov 1st 2009 at 11:13pm
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Posted 2009-11-01 11:13pm
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I have located a problem, though I am not sure how I can fix it. Looks like a problem with email in the database.
Re: Login Issues Posted by G4MER on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 3:56am
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Posted 2009-11-02 3:56am
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the send new password thing worked after all. I am able to get back on. Thanks GWIL for the advice.
Re: Login Issues Posted by Gwil on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 12:22pm
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Posted 2009-11-02 12:22pm
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Glad it worked, Muhnay, I restored yours last night. There was some kind of problem with peoples registered email addresses not being present - a backup has been restored and the problem should now be fixed (thanks, larchy!)
Re: Login Issues Posted by G4MER on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 2:37pm
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Posted 2009-11-02 2:37pm
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Sounds like you have a renew your password script in there and every so many months it kicks on and instead of notifying the member it just locks out the account.
Re: Login Issues Posted by Gwil on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 2:39pm
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Posted 2009-11-02 2:39pm
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THat isn't the problem :P
Re: Login Issues Posted by larchy on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 4:07pm
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Posted 2009-11-02 4:07pm
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Oddly, some of the database info was no longer present or altered. This included user email addresses and some data pertaining to logins (possibly password hashes too - so passwords may need resetting).

I've hopefully restored all missing/altered data from local backups. Anyone with a recently created account should use the contact page if they continue to have a problem logging in.

After having a chance to look through the logs it seems the server got rebooted sometime on Sunday. No idea if this has anything to do with the issues, but it does coincide with Gwil's original post. Maybe there was some sort of outage.
Re: Login Issues Posted by Riven on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 11:44pm
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Posted 2009-11-02 11:44pm
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Yea, I wasn't able to log in either when I returned late last night; glad to know you guys got it all sorted out! -How often do you make local back-ups of the server larchy? -Thanks for doing so! :cowjump:

And I appreciate the post about it on the front page Gwil, very timely.
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Re: Login Issues Posted by ReNo on Tue Nov 3rd 2009 at 12:38am
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Indeed, nicely handled gents. Couldn't log in yesterday but all up and running again now, no need to reset the passwords or anything.
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Re: Login Issues Posted by larchy on Tue Nov 3rd 2009 at 7:25am
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Posted 2009-11-03 7:25am
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Riven said:
How often do you make local back-ups of the server larchy?
Every month or two.