Hello johngg,

For the record, I just deployed my janitorial superpowers to reparent the node. The operation reported success, but I now see that in fact it had no effect. :-(

Don’t know what’s going on.

G'day JohnGG,

That sounded awfully familiar. I had a similar problem a month ago: "Orphaned Page, Lost Content, Other Issues". Although, it looks like you didn't also lose the content.

Anyway, in that thread, tye suggested a possible cause may have been a "time-out (or worse)" preventing a full DB insert of a new reply.

When I logged in about 10-12 hours ago, I was unable to access www.perlmonks.org (that's the URL I normally use). I then tried www.perlmonks.net: no luck there either. My next attempt, with www.perlmonks.com, was successful. I mentioned it in the CB but got no replies. [Oops! I left out the word "no". After <ins>ertion, it now makes more sense.] Maybe an hour after that, I tried www.perlmonks.net, and it worked: I assumed a transient problem and thought no more about it. I continued using www.perlmonks.com and later logged out.

About an hour ago, when logging in again, I had the same problem: www.perlmonks.org and www.perlmonks.net inaccessible; www.perlmonks.com worked.

I don't know what the access problems were; however, if they were DB-related, that may have some bearing on the problem you've experienced. That's not a solution, but perhaps suggests an avenue for further investigation.

It looks like your missing post is somehow a top level parent node. When looking at a child node, I see a "in reply to" with a link to parent node. However, I'm not seeing that "in reply to" link when I go to your missing post.

Update:While looking at the "Recent Threads" view, I see your "missing" post listed down in the Notes category section.

Bizarre!

The post was definitely made as a reply to Re: Behaviour of unpack() with the Z template and appears in my nodes list as a "Re^2: ..." so something must have broken during node creation.

Thanks for having a look, I'm going to have to leave this for now as my wife has an early flight in the morning so I need to get to bed!

Cheers,

JohnGG

Thank you all for checking this out. When the post failed to appear I saved the text in my scratchpad and have now re-posted it successfully.

I could remember that others had experienced something similar and kcott's mention of tye's suggestion rings bells. The site did seem to be a bit sticky when I created the post and there was a delay after hitting the "create" button so a time-out of some sort seems likely.

Thanks again for your assistance.

Hi johngg,

A similar thing happened to me too a few months ago.

I considered the node for reparenting, but that was before I saw Athanasius's reply in this thread.

Regards,
-- Hauke D

I just sent a test to the same post, and it went through ok.

This may seem silly, but did you remember to go back on your Preview and hit the create button afterwards?

If not, could it be a browser caching issue?

Hi stevieb,

Thanks for taking the time to check this out. I definitely hit the create button as the post was displayed, appears in the list of nodes I wrote and can be reached via the link in that list.

I can also discount the browser caching as I tried a different laptop that hasn't connected to Perlmonks for months and the post refuses to appear on the parent node on that system as well.

Cheers,

JohnGG