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.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Reply to a post not appearing by kcott
in thread Reply to a post not appearing by johngg

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