I've had this error a few times today both at work and at home. Just thought the admins might want to know.
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ERROR: Could not establish a database connection
(32 posts)- Started 6 years ago by Snowy
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Surely you don't idle away your employer's time on the Internet during working hours @snowy? Shocked etc.
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Lunch break...
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What is a 'database'?
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And frequently, what is a 'lunch break'?
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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 -)
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Thanks :) Can't see anything obviously wrong, but I've turned the database off and on.
Will monitor in the morning.
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I think I've seen it too.
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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.
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I've been seeing it, but only since the Red Snow warning - coincidence ? I think not.
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Snow in the tubes?
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I miss the Varnish Cache Server Days.
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I saw a Varnish error message yesterday.
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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.
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.
I'll continue to monitor next week...
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@chrisfl 159156 requests in a week. Is that quite a lot?
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Chrisfl, could the robot block have stopped Feedly reading the RSS feed? It not been retrieving messages since the snow arrived.
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@acsimpson - found a problem, with the headers the Feedly was sending and my caching config. Should be working now...
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Thanks. It did indeed come back on sometime today.
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Earlier today (7th March) I got the following:
Error 503 Backend fetch failed
Backend fetch failedGuru Meditation:
XID: 1245187Varnish cache server
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A few of the original DB connection errors again throughout today including just now at about 20:28
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Yep -
“ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”
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And another.
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Thanks for the reports, still no idea what's causing the problem, but I do have a plan.
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Is that Plan B?
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I'm getting the following error a lot tonight. If it would help, I think I've got some varnish in the shed...
Error 503 Backend fetch failed
Backend fetch failed
Guru Meditation:
XID: 101504
Varnish cache serverPosted 6 years ago # -
who is the guru and why the meditation
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So - I think the route cause is at the datacenter, Bytemark have posted the following https://status.bytemark.org/issues/246 - It sounds like an issue on the networking side. I'm hoping that this will solve this.
@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.
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 wikipedia: 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.
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....
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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.
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I've nearly finished setting up scripts that can setup and configure cce from scratch in a single script
Can it do @gembo's first post every morning?
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I love the "Guru Meditation Error" story.
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