20 Octobris 2005

Never fails

So I take a couple days off work to attend a meeting with a TAG client…

… and DSpace naturally picks today to pitch a horrible screaming kicking jerking tantrum-y fit, to the tune of nearly a hundred Internal Server Error messages in my work inbox.

I think it’s back under control. I hope. My boss worked on it while I was on the metro home, and we’ve been swapping emails since the moment I logged on, shrieked aloud, and started emergency tire-kicking. But I’d meant to do some more work for the client tonight, and that just went out the yellow terminal window I’m using to monitor the situation.

ETA: I think I sussed out what was going on. Filed a bug on it. Fortunately, it’s nothing a human being is going to see; what I think shrapneled my inbox is that a crawler hit a bunch of pages that used to exist but now throw this error.

When I get back in on Monday, I’ll try to reproduce and fix this on the staging server. Wish me luck.