Could not log in at openSUSE pages today

Hello,

today I was not able to log in.

Not into the forums web interface also also not into different openSUSE
wikis in English and German.

Is something wrong with the iChain or a partition on a server flowing
over or something like that?

Regards
pistazienfresser

  • openSUSE 11.2 with GNOME 2.28.2 (or KDE 4.3.5) and Kernel Linux
    2.6.31.12-0.2-pae (or default, Ubuntu 10.4 LTS ‘lucid’
    2.6.33-24-genetic, MS Win XP)
  • Samsung X20 Pentium M 740 (1730 MHz) Intel 915GM 1400x1050
  • openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser

On 03/09/10 09:51, pistazienfresser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I was not able to log in.
>
> Not into the forums web interface also also not into different openSUSE
> wikis in English and German.
>
> Is something wrong with the iChain or a partition on a server flowing
> over or something like that?
>
> Regards
> pistazienfresser
>
>
>
Same here
It’s well Jeffed Up!

On 03/09/10 10:51, pistazienfresser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I was not able to log in.
>
> Not into the forums web interface also also not into different openSUSE
> wikis in English and German.
>
> Is something wrong with the iChain or a partition on a server flowing
> over or something like that?
>
…]

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.11 writes:

The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.

  • This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to
    accept cookies.

I had two times manually deleted all my cookies in firefox before I
tested Mozilla Firefox again.

The last time I got to
https://forums.opensuse.org/ICSLogin/?"http://forums.opensuse.org/login/icslogin.php?destination=/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription"

entered my openSUSE name and password from my password manager (I tried
it only manually on other Browsers) and got
redirected just to
http://forums.opensuse.org//subscription.php?do=viewsubscription
but without being logged in.

The same as in 2) happende with Opera “Version 10.61 Build 6430 Plattform
Linux Betriebssystem i686, 2.6.31.12-0.2-pae”

I tried with Chromium
a)
on the wiki:

This web page has a redirect loop.

The web page at
http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main_Page&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin&action=submitlogin
has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site
or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is
possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web page later.
Learn more about this problem.
More information on this error
Below is the original error message

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

4 b)
On the
http://forums.opensuse.org//
the Register/Login button linked to:
http://forums.opensuse.org/login/icslogin.php?destination=/
and a Click on it makes no change at all (I saw just the same after the
Click).

I also tried to get logged in on my Ubuntu system.

Regards
pistazienfresser

  • openSUSE 11.2 with GNOME 2.28.2 (or KDE 4.3.5) and Kernel Linux
    2.6.31.12-0.2-pae (or default, Ubuntu 10.4 LTS ‘lucid’
    2.6.33-24-genetic, MS Win XP)
  • Samsung X20 Pentium M 740 (1730 MHz) Intel 915GM 1400x1050
  • openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser

Yeah, seems there is a problem with iChain currently. wait and see…

Spyhawk wrote:
> Yeah, seems there is a problem with iChain currently. wait and see…

yep, seems someone in Utah needs to discover/fix the problem…
anyone over here know how to holler at anyone over there?


DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

i can report log in success to Novell, but then i’m neither
automatically accepted as logged in at either forums.opensuse.org or
en.opensuse.org

what is strange is i just saw a http originated posting and replied
via nntp…the web posting was timed about an hour and half ago…so
how did that questioner log in (when its been impossible to log in for
over three hours)??

that thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=445534

is iChain accepting log in from some countries/IPs and not others??


DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

I am posting from the web interface.
So I think I have had success with access again.
The strangest thing is that I do not remember to
have tried to log in (successfully) before
a goast log in, huuuuuh huuuuuuh :wink:

Thanks
to the helping ‘goast’ :wink:
pistazienfresser

and, with my log in to Novell still active (that wasn’t being accepted by the forum) i’m recognized here, automatically…so, it seems someone kicked iChain into working again…

yipee: Gentlemen, start your helpin’!

There were some LDAP issues going on, so iChain didn’t have any authentication information to work with.

This issue is coming up on and off, so login problems may continue over the next few hours or so.

LDAP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (pronounced /ˈɛldæp/](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English)) is an application protocol for querying and modifying data of directory services implemented in Internet Protocol (IP) networks [1]…]
[1] LDAP: Framework, Practices, and Trends, September/October 2004 (vol. 8 no. 5) , pp. 66-72Vassiliki Koutsonikola, Aristotle University Athena Vakali, Aristotle University

:wink:
So the the access via the protocol to or from the directories seems to be not so lightweight at all.-> HDAP: Heavy Directory Access Protocol? Or the access and the protocols are full of light and the directories have the weight?
/:wink:

Thanks for informing and warning
pistazienfresser

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:02 +0000, pistazienfresser wrote:

> so the the access via the protocol to or from the directories seems to
> be not so lightweight at all.-> hdap: heavy directory access protocol?
> or the access and the protocols are full of light and the directories
> have the weight?

Hehehehehe, if you want, I could give you more information than you could
possibly ever want on directory access protocols, eDirectory, and how DAP
and LDAP compare. :wink:

(I used to teach eDir ATT for Novell and have co-authored a couple books
on the subject)

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:17:06 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> Spyhawk wrote:
>> Yeah, seems there is a problem with iChain currently. wait and see…
>
> yep, seems someone in Utah needs to discover/fix the problem… anyone
> over here know how to holler at anyone over there?

It was already being looked into at this point - I noticed some issues
that were affecting us internally late yesterday afternoon, no doubt a
few people pulled all-nighters to get things fixed.

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Jim Henderson wrote:
> It was already being looked into at this point - I noticed some issues
> that were affecting us internally late yesterday afternoon, no doubt a
> few people pulled all-nighters to get things fixed.

thanks to them, and you…


DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

I’m back to this problem. I haven’t seen it in so long, I forget the fix.

I use google chrome. I am thoroughly annoyed with how many steps it takes to search the forums for new posts. To skip a couple of steps, I tried to bookmark the login page. It takes me there but won’t accept the user/password entered either automatically or manually. I get directed back to main page and then the link to Register/login doesn’t work. I stay on the forums main page.

I got here by firing up Firefox, so it looks like a chrome issue and not the chain issue discussed earlier in the thread. But I don’t know for sure.

BTW, to find new posts since my last visit is either 7 or 8 clicks, not counting actual entering of user/password. PITA.