Re: [Translate-devel] Amagama not working

[Jerome L. <ad...@gm...>]

Hi Friedel

This issue looks completely unrelated to nginx. Investigating.
J. Leclanche


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, F Wolff <fr...@tr...> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Jerome Leclanche <ad...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi Friedel
>>
>> Amagama was restarted the other day. I wanted to recap the situation though.
>>
>> There was a potential security issue in Amagama's server-side input
>> validation that would fail a transaction with the database. The
>> transaction was never being rolled back and amagama would enter a
>> permanently broken state.
>
> Thank you for explaining, Jerome.
>
>
>> This was "hidden" in apache because apache restarts mod_wsgi now and
>> then (brought to you by the people who reboot their computer instead
>> of fixing memory leaks). When we switched to nginx, we stopped doing
>> that nonsense. That meant this bug would be more visible.
>> It has now been properly fixed. It's likely that amagama's previous
>> erratic behaviour was due to it.
>
> I guess it was "hidden" in the error logs, but I guess nobody had an
> opportunity to review it, and it seemed to be running fine.
>
> Amagama is again down now, and I guess it is because it doesn't
> automatically recover from bad situations. It seems that this new
> setup is very fragile, and additionally needs a lot of hand-holding.
> As far as I know it was running fine for years under the previous
> setup. I'm still not sure what the major advantage is of this way.
>
> Anyway, can someone with the necessary powers and understanding
> restart the server, please?
>
> Keep well
> Friedel
>
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