couldn't login, was it just me?

stuck · Post by **stuck** » 21 Oct 2019, 08:37

About half an hour ago (~08:45 UK time MOn 21 Oct) I visited Scuttlebutt and saved my B&W picture of the old tree to my PC here at work. I then tried to add a reply but Something Happened^TM and I found myself logged out. I then couldn't get back in, despite clearing all board cookies / clearing the FF cache / closing and restarting Firefox several times. I'd get to the login page, enter my user name and password, click login and find myself back at the login page with the username and password fields empty once again.

Now though, as you can see, I'm back. The login worked this time and, as it's been forever, I don't have to login when I return to The Lounge.

Alls ell that ends well.

Ken

Argus · Post by **Argus** » 21 Oct 2019, 09:24

I wrote this before trying to login ...
Never happened here. I log in and out every time. (Seen other things, General Error has visited with a SQL error etc.) And since there are very few visitors to the Lounge, most of the time, you would have noticed if there was anyone else around.

Since we're still on summer time, I, when not logged in, always add 2 hours at first glance, and when I saw your post "08:37" that would mean 10:37 here, and 09:37 your place, and half an hour ~ earlier would then be 09:00-09:07. Are you sure?

Spooky!
A man in the middle eating cookies so you didn't get logged in?

Paranormal distribution.jpg

Then this happened when I tried to log in and post a reply:
(So the answer is no, it wasn't just you.)

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stuck · Post by **stuck** » 21 Oct 2019, 09:43

Ah, sorry...

The "'half an hour" time difference I mention between when I had a problem, which was around 08:45 UK time today, Mon 21 Oct 2019 and the time of my post at 09:37, which as you correctly deduce is closer to an hour than half an hour, is because I wrote the post but didn't get as far as submitting it. Someone appeared at my desk and I had to stop and do some real work with them. Once that task was out the way and I returned to my post I failed to update the text about "half an hour" to "an hour" before I clicked submit.

The conclusion seems to be that it was a real problem but a fleeting one and all is well once again.

Ken

Post by **HansV** » 21 Oct 2019, 10:02

It even happened to me and Rudi. We have no idea what caused this. Sorry for the inconvenience!

stuck · Post by **stuck** » 21 Oct 2019, 12:01

HansV wrote:...We have no idea what caused this...

Maybe someone at the hosting company put some papers down on their desk and the papers landed on a keyboard, pressing a key and...

Or maybe they spilt their coffee and...

Ken

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 21 Oct 2019, 13:33

stuck wrote:The conclusion seems to be that it was a real problem but a fleeting one and all is well once again.

It happened to Hans and Rudi, and me too.
I figured that I had at long last been promoted in the Lounge Hierarchy.
Either that or I had fouled my vote in the federal election this morning (grin)
Cheers
Chris

DaveA · Post by **DaveA** » 21 Oct 2019, 15:05

It was all the cat's fault, it just walked across the keyboard!

viking33 · Post by **viking33** » 21 Oct 2019, 17:27

HansV wrote:It even happened to me and Rudi. We have no idea what caused this. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Add my name to the members experiencing intermittent login problems.
No big deal but just an annoyance.

stuck · Post by **stuck** » 23 Oct 2019, 18:00

My desktop PC at home has just required me to login but maybe because I've not used it for a couple of days (long story involving 'boiler issues') it's just playing catch up and will be OK from here on. My netbook has been fine, as has my desktop PC at work, for over 24 hours.

Ken

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 23 Oct 2019, 18:13

stuck wrote:My desktop PC at home has just required me to login ...

Welcome to the ranks of the exalted

Cheers
Chris

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 26 Oct 2019, 00:40

I encountered this problem again this afternoon (it occurred to me earlier this week). I was logged in reading my unread posts. When going from one post to the next I noticed that my board style changed from subsilver2 to the default and I was proceeding as a user who was not logged-in. I logged out and could no longer log in until after supper. To paraphrase Ken, Something Is Still Happening.^TM

Post by **StuartR** » 26 Oct 2019, 04:29

It's not just you Paul. The admins are looking at this, but at the moment we're all just scratching our heads in confusion.

GeoffW · Post by **GeoffW** » 26 Oct 2019, 11:38

I had the same problem as everybody else. I would have reported it if I had been able to log in. Or I would have been able to see if others had the same problem.

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 26 Oct 2019, 16:54

It's working well today...

Post by **Jay Freedman** » 26 Oct 2019, 19:53

I'm glad I read the first part of this thread, so when my login was denied I just figured it was more of the same, and would eventually be remedied.

As every programmer knows, there's nothing more infuriating than an intermittent error.

Doc.AElstein · Post by **Doc.AElstein** » 22 Dec 2019, 08:39

Hi
I see that there were some problems logging in this year at Eileen's Lounge.
( http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33443" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33437" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33502" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33672" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; )
I was not near a computer or the internet for most of the last 9 months so missed any log in problem here. I have been looking in again to the Lounge occasionally for a bit over a week now. I had my first ever experience of log in problems here last night. It was no big deal, the problem went away after a couple of hours. I just thought I would mention it in passing.

I am usually logged in automatically when visiting the lounge. On an attempt last night I saw this,
CantLogIn 1.JPG : https://imgur.com/bQnd2E2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CantLogIn 1.JPG

On trying to log in I got redirected here:
CantLogIn.JPG : https://imgur.com/FOFNHy1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CantLogIn.JPG

If I attempted to log in there, then, that page just stayed as it was. So I could not log in.
I tried a few things, like cleared my Cache, re-started the computer, carefully retyped my password a few times, but all that made no difference.
I was using my main computer on my normal IP address. We had coincidentally a couple of other computers in the family surfing the internet via VPN at the time. So I had a quick try at logging in from those. The result was the same, no joy.

After a couple of hours all was back to normal, as it continues to be this morning.
So no real problem. I just thought I would mention my experience in passing
( At the time that I was unsuccessful at logging in there were occasionally other members shown to be logged in )

Alan

Doc.AElstein · Post by **Doc.AElstein** » 28 Jan 2020, 14:01

The last couple of hours I couldn't log in, usuall problem , got stuck here

Stuck at Login.JPG

stuck · Post by **stuck** » 28 Jan 2020, 16:56

Doc.AElstein wrote:got stuck here

Err,

that's not me, that's you

Ken
PS, sorry, I know that's not very helpful but I couldn't resist it.

Doc.AElstein · Post by **Doc.AElstein** » 28 Jan 2020, 17:05

aekyall · Post by **aekyall** » 01 Feb 2020, 23:44

Periods when I have been unable to log in to the lounge seem to have become a common occurrence for me over the past few months - usually occurs around 2245'ish GMT, but used only to last for about 10 or so minutes. Tonight, 1st Feb, I was unable to log in between 2250 and 2330 GMT. It's really just an inconvenience that I've come to accept, but it does seem to be becoming a far more frequent occurrence, and of greater time span. Just noting this for the record.

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