Hello I have noticed this ever since I first came to OpenSUSE a few months ago. It seems approximately 40% of the time when I try to load the forum using Firefox the title gets displayed but loading simply hangs forever from there with a blank white page. Once it occurs simply reloading does not help and it stays this way for a considerable amount of time (no pattern identified, I have no tested this extensively but will be glad to try to help more if needed).
This happened in Firefox 10 and I can confirm it happens in Firefox 11 now as well. When it happens every single time I can again access the forums perfectly simply by using Chromium.
It seems to be an issue specific to this forum as I am an extremely active web user (10+ hours a day since I work online) and have not experienced a repeatable pattern like this with any other site. The issue seems different than the one mentioned in the other “Access Error” thread. I thought I should mention this in case others are also seeing it or it helps to solve the issue.
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:38:17 +0000, davidmfl wrote:
> This happened in Firefox 10 and I can confirm it happens in Firefox 11
> now as well. When it happens every single time I can again access the
> forums perfectly simply by using Chromium.
Thanks for the report - if you had the chance to, if you add the httpfox
addon and start it, it will record the access times to various elements -
it would be interesting to know if there’s a particular element that it
seems to be hanging up on.
You’re welcome. Interestingly upon activating Httpfox and then requesting the forum from the awesome/location bar it hung being left for three minutes and did generate the following output. However when I hit “Stop” on the Httpfox log panel the site then showed normally. Then clicking around seemed to work. Next I tried to load the site again from the location bar without running Httpfox. It hung once again until I clicked the stop button (on Firefox this time). I then hit “view source” and was surprised to see that the forum source was actually there even though I had a mostly blank page with just the forum background.
The initial httpfox log:
00:00:57.025 0.171 411 0 GET null Redirect (cached) http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php
00:00:57.358 2.450 411 247 GET 200 text/html http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php
00:01:00.056 8.139 543 (51862) GET 304 text/x-js http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin-core.js?v=4111
00:01:00.221 221.299 499 (68448) GET (Cache) text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/main-rollup.css?d=1333652910
00:01:00.384 221.155 461 (4461) GET (Cache) text/x-js http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_read_marker.js?v=4111
00:01:00.541 221.006 504 (12377) GET (Cache) text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/forumhome-rollup.css?d=1333652910
00:01:00.698 220.789 495 (3023) GET (Cache) text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/sidebar.css?d=1333652910
00:01:00.855 220.602 495 (1198) GET (Cache) text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/widgets.css?d=1333652910
00:01:01.011 220.486 496 (325) GET (Cache) text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/tagcloud.css?d=1333652910
00:01:01.182 220.461 457 (4245) GET (Cache) text/x-js http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin-sidebar.js?v=4111
00:01:01.345 0.165 398 0 GET null Redirect (cached) http://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/jquery.js
00:01:01.511 0.165 425 0 GET null Redirect (cached) https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/l10n/global-navigation-data-en_US.js
00:01:01.677 0.157 409 0 GET null Redirect (cached) https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/global-navigation.js
00:01:01.835 0.165 413 0 GET null Redirect (cached) https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/css/base.css
00:01:02.001 6.506 587 (29797) GET 304 text/css http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00048l/additional.css?d=1333652910
00:01:02.164 6.096 485 (2090) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/opensuse_beta/opensuse_logo.png
00:01:02.319 5.966 474 (241) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/misc/navbit-home.png
00:01:02.478 5.815 478 (237) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/buttons/collapse_40b.png
00:01:02.633 5.687 483 (54529) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/category_forum_new.png
00:01:02.788 5.512 480 (2959) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/subforum_new-48.png
00:01:02.945 5.361 481 (2956) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/subforum_link-48.png
00:01:03.105 5.208 480 (2955) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/subforum_old-48.png
00:01:03.266 5.060 483 (54552) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/category_forum_old.png
00:01:03.422 4.910 477 (52611) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_new-48.png
00:01:03.577 4.761 469 (594) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/icons/icon1.png
00:01:03.733 4.614 480 (224) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/buttons/lastpost-right.png
00:01:03.889 4.629 477 (53511) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_old-48.png
00:01:04.072 4.621 572 (61740) GET 304 text/x-js http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/yui/yuiloader-dom-event/yuiloader-dom-event.js?v=4111
00:01:04.240 4.612 558 (13378) GET 304 text/x-js http://forums.opensuse.org/clientscript/yui/connection/connection-min.js?v=4111
00:01:04.453 4.470 398 (27073) GET (Cache) text/x-js http://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/jquery.js
00:01:04.610 4.324 425 (973) GET (Cache) text/x-js https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/l10n/global-navigation-data-en_US.js
00:01:04.767 4.190 409 (609) GET (Cache) text/x-js https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/js/global-navigation.js
00:01:04.930 4.046 413 (4791) GET (Cache) text/css https://static.opensuse.org/themes/bento/css/base.css
00:01:05.415 3.598 364 (1150) GET (Cache) image/x-icon http://www.opensuse.org/favicon.ico
00:01:05.582 3.499 478 (53635) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_link-48.png
00:01:05.739 3.348 474 (488) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/misc/forum_stats.png
00:01:05.896 3.197 469 (404) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/misc/legend.png
00:01:06.065 3.100 477 (49914) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_new-16.png
00:01:06.229 2.887 477 (50260) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_old-16.png
00:01:06.386 2.765 476 (49816) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/category-16.png
00:01:06.542 2.618 478 (50727) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/novell/forum_link-16.png
00:01:06.701 2.420 476 (1210) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/misc/tab-collapsed.png
00:01:06.859 2.616 563 (391) GET 304 image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/cms/widget-article.png
00:01:07.016 2.110 500 (3211) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/avatars/jonathan_r.gif?dateline=1256279070&type=thumb
00:01:07.182 1.949 501 (7569) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/avatars/jdmcdaniel3.gif?dateline=1324183396&type=thumb
00:01:07.341 2.290 562 (521) GET 304 image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/cms/widget-forum.png
00:01:07.504 1.632 504 (12477) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/images/avatars/additional/792-94182%20%5B%5D%20%5B%5D.png
00:01:07.669 1.650 558 (1038) GET 304 image/gif http://forums.opensuse.org/images/misc/unknown.gif
00:01:07.830 1.311 499 (7498) GET (Cache) image/png http://forums.opensuse.org/avatars/ketheriel.gif?dateline=1300194416&type=thumb
00:01:07.995 1.150 496 (2300) GET (Cache) image/jpeg http://forums.opensuse.org/avatars/socref.gif?dateline=1308227800&type=thumb
In considering the log output I decided to clear my cache and it did work perfectly. Next I typed in “http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php” again in the location bar and it hung once again. Then I typed it in once again and it worked. I continued to click twice browsing the forums (while not logged in) and it hung once again. So then I once again cleared my cache and it worked.
It looks like there is some sort of issue involving the cache control perhaps? Please let me know if I can provide more information to help. I will be checking back over the weekend.
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:36:02 +0000, davidmfl wrote:
> You’re welcome. Interestingly upon activating Httpfox and then
> requesting the forum from the awesome/location bar it hung being left
> for three minutes and did generate the following output.
Thanks again for passing this info along - I’ll make sure it gets to the
right person to incorporate into their troubleshooting. (Sorry for the
delayed response - I was out of town for a couple days and had to prep
for it and do the travel thing).