Last modified: 2005-10-29 03:04:36 UTC
When attempting to delete an article using the Opera 7.5 web browser, the browser tries to connect with the database (or squid, perhaps) for about 45 seconds, then returns the following message: Sorry- we have a problem... The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request. To get information on what's going on you can visit #wikipedia. An "offsite" status page is hosted on OpenFacts. Generated Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:34:24 GMT by srv5.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE9.wp20050410.S9plus[icpfix,nortt,htcpclr]) Repeated attempts to delete articles with Opera have returned the same result. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has no trouble deleting articles, so perhaps it's a limitation of the browser but I cannot be sure.
Works for me, Opera 7.54 on Mac OS X 10.4.1.
Clarifications: The bug occurs in Opera 7.50 build 3778 on Windows ME (Win32). The errors described earlier continue to occur with this particular browser.
Try a more recent build from Opera, and report the bug to Opera if it persists. You might try a network sniffer to confirm what's being sent from/to the browser.
It's independent on the browser (Firefox here), it only works after many many tries. But sometimes when the servers have a good day it works on first try, or only after just one retry.
It's independent of the browser, I had to try on-and-off for about half an hour yesterday to delete a single page.
See also: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-June/024517.html
I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4, and it fails in almost all attempts, and has for two days. RickK
All deletions, including recently created pages with no history? Or just older pages with history? Only on en.wikipedia.org, or also on other wikis? Could be a bad index or lock contention on the archive table if it's on everything. Could be the fancy decompression thingy if it's not.
Seems to be hitting for even newly created articles on enwiki. Investigating...
It seems to be hanging on the INSERT SELECT from cur to archive, I'm not quite sure why. I've temporarily replaced it with separate SELECT and INSERT queries and I haven't seen a failure in my log since. Looking at a deleted page in Special:Undelete also seems to take inordinately long, I'm not quite sure why. There may well be something wrong with the archive table... Oddly I haven't been able to see any of these queries in SHOW PROCESSLIST output, which is somewhat maddening as I can't tell which server they're running against, etc.
A particular entry, was resolved some time ago.
