Skip to content
Little GolemMake your next move.

strange error in WTPS Game

Public forum discussion.

#2 · CloD

27 May 2015

same here, it's like I could play twice with my color

#3 · erratic

27 May 2015

Same here. My opponent has to answer an old position where it is my turn. 7 moves before the current state of the game.

#5 · Jos Dekker

27 May 2015

Yes it was I, who has reported that Error. It is even more serious.

#6 · Wieks

27 May 2015

The turn issue seems to be reset to the correct state, though still moves missing.

#7 · ypercube

27 May 2015

Yes, my games are now in a correct state. The two games I double-moved have been corrected, too. That's good.

Based on previous experience, I don't have much hope that the lost moves (last 5? 7 days?) will be recovered.

My guess is that there was a database corruption and the database was recovered from the most recent backup.

#8 · orvieto

27 May 2015

Seven hours ago I won two wyps matches, this one against terrance806 and this one against Randolph King. I am not sure I was that close to winning in both matches. But I cannot access the boards, I get the same message in both cases:Exception:java.lang.NullPointerException

What does it mean?

#9 · terrance806

27 May 2015

@orvieto I had resigned from our game but I notice its completely missing from the tournament table

#10 · Tommah

27 May 2015

As ypercube suggested, I am going to wait a while before I play any more moves.  There are still a lot of errors happening, and Richard may end up having to restore the database again.  I think he was trying to restore only the database tables that were corrupted.  (It seems that way, at least, because all my messages are still there, and everyone who signed up for the Hex tournament is still listed on the tournament page.)  But this may have left things in an inconsistent state.

#11 · EmTom

28 May 2015

lol Tommah if that's really the case than we are doomed to experience this mess for a while longer. I don't know what the LG db looks like and how it's built but trying to restore only a part of DB from the backup doesn't sound like something I would do in any enterprise class project. :D

#12 · Tommah

28 May 2015

Well, when LG was down yesterday, the error message said something like "table forummsg has crashed and should be repaired".  I figured that Richard had run the repair command and it failed spectacularly.  (Just take a look at http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/topic2.jsp?forum=1&topic=2945 !)  The problem seems to be affecting other tables, though.

You are right, of course; the best thing to do is to recreate the entire database from a recent backup.  That is, if you have one....

#13 · Carroll

28 May 2015

How will we know when we can start to play again?Wait for a message from Richard?Also people having played in the meantime will also lose these moves...I never understood how you can repair a moving database.

#14 · Tommah

29 May 2015

I'm going to wait until the home page no longer says that the last forum post was negative fourteen trillion minutes ago.

#15 · EmTom

29 May 2015

I just play lost moves again. My opponents seem to cooperate so far :D