Last modified: 2013-08-13 11:53:43 UTC
When viewing Special:newfiles on commons, lots of thumbs don't render. Looking at the requests, the affected files all have same error message: <html><head><title>Error generating thumbnail</title></head> <body> <h1>Error generating thumbnail</h1> <p> Error creating thumbnail: </p> <!-- http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb_handler.php/e/e0/2004-12-01_500-Millibar_Height_Contour_Map_NOAA.png/120px-2004-12-01_500-Millibar_Height_Contour_Map_NOAA.png --> <!-- mw1153 --> </body> </html> When visiting the url a second time, the file renders (and is cached). I would guess the request is being routed to a different backend server, and there's just something wrong with mw1153.
confirmed, happened to me a number of times and the 2 times I actually got a backend listed (rather than empty body because I guess it didn't like my Accept header) it was mw1153
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NewFiles
mw1153 should be fixed since sometime before 04:00 UTC. If anyone's still seeing image scaling (thumbnailing) issues please reopen.
