http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: ERROR: Could not establish a database connection en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:10:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610&page=2#post-280915 Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:11:32 +0000 fimm 280915@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another "Guru Meditiation Error" this morning (24th April). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610&page=2#post-278216 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:16:14 +0000 chdot 278216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Can it do @gembo's first post every morning?”</p> <p>What makes you think it’s not already randomly generated? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278215 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:09:51 +0000 fimm 278215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love the "Guru Meditation Error" story. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278214 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:09:50 +0000 fimm 278214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love the "Guru Meditation Error" story. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278213 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:08:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 278213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I've nearly finished setting up scripts that can setup and configure cce from scratch in a single script</em></p> <p>Can it do @gembo's first post every morning? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278208 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:40:19 +0000 dougal 278208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember the original guru meditations (well, you know, the Amiga yellow or red flashing boxes) and still get a little leap of joy whenever I see it referenced in more modern technology. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278197 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:57:24 +0000 chrisfl 278197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So - I think the route cause is at the datacenter, Bytemark have posted the following <a href="https://status.bytemark.org/issues/246">https://status.bytemark.org/issues/246</a> - It sounds like an issue on the networking side. I'm hoping that this will solve this.</p> <p>@Ed1 - Varnish is a frontend server that takes the incoming requests and for images and stylessheets as well as pages we cache for a shprt period of time such as the rss feeds will usually get served directly from memory.</p> <p>Using Guru Meditation as the error message, goes back to the Amiga (one of the best 80/90's computers) Equivalent of the Windows Blue screen of death, quoting from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation">wikipedia</a>: The term "Guru Meditation Error" originated as an in-house joke in Amiga's early days. The company had a product called the Joyboard, a game controller much like a joystick but operated by one's feet, similar to the modern-day Wii Balance Board. Early in the development of the Amiga computer operating system, the company's developers became so frustrated with the system's frequent crashes that, as a relaxation technique, a game was developed where a person would sit cross-legged on the joyboard, resembling an Indian guru.[3] The player tried to remain extremely still; the winner of the game stayed still the longest. If the player moved too much, a "guru meditation" error occurred.[4] The final unlockable balance activity in Wii Fit represents a similar game. </p> <p>I've nearly finished setting up scripts that can setup and configure cce from scratch in a single script so if the problems continue I do have the option of switching hosting fairly quickly now if needed. In fact this works so well that I earlier posted this to my test deployment rather than the real server.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278189 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:05:33 +0000 Ed1 278189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>who is the guru and why the meditation </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-278184 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:21:15 +0000 Snowy 278184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm getting the following error a lot tonight. If it would help, I think I've got some varnish in the shed...</p> <p>Error 503 Backend fetch failed<br /> Backend fetch failed<br /> Guru Meditation:<br /> XID: 101504<br /> Varnish cache server </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-277127 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:31:40 +0000 chdot 277127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is that Plan B? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-277126 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 02:15:03 +0000 chrisfl 277126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the reports, still no idea what's causing the problem, but I do have a plan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-277091 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:33:11 +0000 fimm 277091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And another. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-277081 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:47:56 +0000 chdot 277081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep -</p> <p>“ERROR: Could not establish a database connection” </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-277080 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:29:19 +0000 Snowy 277080@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few of the original DB connection errors again throughout today including just now at about 20:28 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276847 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:36:19 +0000 fimm 276847@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Earlier today (7th March) I got the following:<br /> <em>Error 503 Backend fetch failed<br /> Backend fetch failed</p> <p>Guru Meditation:<br /> XID: 1245187</p> <p>Varnish cache server</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276800 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:26:02 +0000 acsimpson 276800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks. It did indeed come back on sometime today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276792 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:55:17 +0000 chrisfl 276792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson - found a problem, with the headers the Feedly was sending and my caching config. Should be working now... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276680 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:51:43 +0000 acsimpson 276680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Chrisfl, could the robot block have stopped Feedly reading the RSS feed? It not been retrieving messages since the snow arrived. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276676 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:13:21 +0000 gembo 276676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chrisfl 159156 requests in a week. Is that quite a lot? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276675 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:06:50 +0000 chrisfl 276675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did make some changes during the week - it looked like we were getting hit by a robot and this was leading to the large number of errors at the beginning of last week. So the robot is now blocked and I've enabled caching for users not logged in.</p> <p>We are still getting problems according to the logs we had 410 errors out of 159156 requests yesterday (Saturday). So hopefully a fairly small rate. </p> <p>I'll continue to monitor next week... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276486 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:32:00 +0000 Cyclingmollie 276486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw a Varnish error message yesterday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276457 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:01:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 276457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I miss the Varnish Cache Server Days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276442 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:17:28 +0000 unhurt 276442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Snow in the tubes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276436 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:07:48 +0000 dessert rat 276436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been seeing it, but only since the Red Snow warning - coincidence ? I think not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276423 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:56:01 +0000 acsimpson 276423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been getting the error on and off today too. I wonder if it's also the reason that feedly hasn't been keeping up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276042 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:10:32 +0000 fimm 276042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I've seen it too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276023 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:09:50 +0000 chrisfl 276023@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks :) Can't see anything obviously wrong, but I've turned the database off and on.</p> <p>Will monitor in the morning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276022 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:13:20 +0000 Ed1 276022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have had this message a few times I wondered if it may be if write a rubbish post, I just had that message appear after this post -) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276021 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:02:37 +0000 Snowy 276021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And frequently, what is a 'lunch break'? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18610#post-276020 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:30:25 +0000 I were right about that saddle 276020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is a 'database'? </p>