Closed Bug 1064518 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Flush the Planet caches and examine the underlying OS

Categories

(Websites :: planet.mozilla.org, defect)

x86
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: mhoye, Assigned: nmaul)

Details

Planet has started attributing some people's posts to other people (in some cases, cross-pollenating stuff across different subplanets). I don't see anything obvious in the posts themselves - they have unique guids, posting times, nothing obviously in common - so I'd like to see if there's cache corruption involved at some level before I dig further in.

(I'd also like some assurance that whatever's underneath it is also doing OK, whatever filesystem that is.)
I believe what's going on here is that, at some point, /futurereleases/ was being watched. Examining the config.ini, it no longer is (though looking at the SVN history, I can't figure out when that changed).

My theory is that when this happens, the planet build scripts go bonkers and do odd things. I *think* it may be taking cues from the existing cache data, because flushing the cache and running it again makes it act sanely... the content pulled from blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/ does not come back, and is no longer included in the generated HTML.

If you look at September 4 and 5 now, you'll find the posts from /futurereleases/ are gone now.

This probably cures other oddities as well, but that's the one I knew about for sure so it's what I was specifically looking for.
Assignee: nobody → nmaul
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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