Nike shop opens at 9!! 

always amazed when the server comes back and the sites reappear 

 

Quaddicted will sleep for the night, sorry. 

Also, I am assuming that if I have to take money from the hosting fund to rent a beefy server for a month to get Atomicgamer archived, that would be fine, right? 

Lesson of the day is that backing up the containers in which your sites run is a great idea but backing up the host system is a good idea too. Something broke and the server is not booting anymore. Backups are just a week old so no worries, nothing is lost.

I am focussing on Atomicgamer right now, so you will have to live without Quaddicted (and quakewiki and quakeexpo but who cares, right) for another day or two. Sorry! 

If someone knows things about mdadm and grub I could use some help. 

I have given up. Will be some days until it comes back. If this motivates someone to finalise offline support for the Quake Injector, at least something good comes out of it (I don't remember the status, sorry).

I will probably switch to a new server as this is a waste of time. 

what exactly is the problem? i don't know anything that would help, but maybe someone will stop by here and see. 

Try posting to the Quake subreddit at (reddit.com/r/quake)

Maybe some people there will know how to help! 

System does not boot, that's all I know. Provider said grub did not find some disk when they tried to boot it. I can mount the disks fine in a rescue system. I chrooted inside then.

I had updated packages which included a kernel upgrade. So I checked and changed the grub config without luck. Updated the initramfs.

Since it's raid I also tried including various modules. Raid is fine and working if I boot in rescue system. I took out one of the big disks when i first got the server as I did not care for raid. I also tried many variations of device names and uuids in mdadm.conf and grub as I suspected the md0/md126 thingie was the problem. Fscked without problems.

I can use a rescue ubuntu fine but when I try to boot the broken system, the only diagnostic is 'does it respond to anything after many minutes or not'.

And that ruined my Saturday, not gonna let it ruin my Sunday too. I'll post this and some file lists and configs to some places later, good idea! 

ended up reinstalling after wasting a couple of days on it. Sorry I can't be more help - short of regenerating the grub configs, I don't know how to fix it. 

New server is ready but it is not my priority at the moment. If people want I could upload archives of the files to archive.org, just tell me what you need.


Note to self because I cannot spam our internal forums at the moment: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest 

Had to register a new account due to the fact that I forgot my 2003 password and gamersrevolt mail account is long gone!

Thanks for your efforts Spirit, has been dark days without Quaddicted! 

These recent outages are sore reminders that while we all love Quake, Quaddicted won't be there forever and lots of users install exclusively through the injector, which goes down when the server does. Local functionality would help fix this for inept users like me. I have two ideas for fixes and relatively little Java experience.

Idea 1: When Quake Injector installs a pak or a bsp, it creates a text file using the data it pulls from the site to populate its info. This could be used to display maps that are already installed if a connection can't be established.

Idea 2: When Quake Injector installs a pak or bsp, it creates a shortcut in a separate file in the Quake directory. This shortcut would direct to the engine the Injector is set to use and to the new pak's game name. Titles could be pulled from the site at the time of installation. This way if the Injector goes down, mods can be easily and individually opened.


I love Quaddicted and tools like the Injector. I'm glad Quake maps are still being released and that a community still loves the game so much. I hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice, but I'd love if the game and its legacy of user made content could outlast Quaddicted itself for more than just the most adept users.

Thanks Spirit for your time and for an awesome site! 

When Quaddicted is down it gets more praise then otherwise, I should do this more often, it makes me feel good!

The Injector is almost offline ready actually, I would need to check but megaman, Johnny Law and ericw did some great work. Downloads and screenshots can already be held locally I think. The only thing that actually fails it from working to play installed maps is that it downloads the xml database at the start. That can (is?) be cached, it would just need to read from that.

Maybe someone can poke around a bit. Generally this just reminds me what a metric crap the current system is, especially with the special authors always requesting updates with the same filenames. Maybe completely reworking the whole system might be a good idea but I would at least need an active QI developer for that (and lots of happy free time!)

Shortcuts would not be cross-platform. 

It's excellent it's nearly there already! The Injector seems like it has been steadily improving over time, most notably in my case when it suddenly understood how to implement WarpSpasm. I should have figured there was someone already on that from the experimental "check for installed maps" function.

That said, if you need someone to help with development, I'm professionally inexperienced but handy with Java, and I'd be more than happy to help if I can.

I have no idea how the cross-platform issue slipped my mind. I've been tooling around with my Quake files for years and it never occurred to me that another system might handle it differently. I feel pretty dumb about that. Speaking of feeling dumb, how does one find that xml if it IS chached?

Thanks again for the response! Can't wait until the site's running again! 

You can poke around in the code at https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector/ if you like.

At first glance (in the doParseDatabase function of the main class) it looks like the downloaded database XML is stored at whatever path is returned by getConfig().LocalDatabaseFile.get(). So that'll be some value specified by the QuakeInjector config... by default it is "database.xml". 

Atomicgamer archival is nearing the end, downloads should be done in the next 24 hours. Then I will see the remaining uploads finish. Then I will reset the server. Then I will start working on getting Quaddicted back online.

Not sure if I want to keep the new server. 6TB of space sure is nice but it also costs almost twice as much... 

You know, I was half expecting to be totally lost at first glance. Looks like my classes were actually pretty useful. I'll look it over and get back to you if I can do anything useful. This shouldn't take too long. From what you guys described I was expecting something much less neat and orderly. This reads nice. 

An archive.org mirror of quaddicted and quakewiki (and quakeexpo) would be an awesome historical contribution. Just my two cents.

Your work is appreciated, and worth saving.

Thanks! 

9452 Gigabytes of AtomicGamer files have been archived at https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22atomicgamer%22 Last upload running right now. Phew! 

Let me second that, an archive of Quaddicted would be fantastic. 

Yeah, I should really make WARCs of my own sites. Please remind me when they are back online!