GRASS trac server problems - was Re: [GRASS-dev] Change in parser behavior?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Michael wrote:

...

BTW, all the grass trac addresses (ttp://trac.osgeo.org/grass and the
like) produce an Internal Server Error. Is the GRASS trac site out?

yeah I see those 500 errors all the time. Usually followed a few minutes
later by "Database is locked Oops… Trac detected an internal error:",
and a few minutes later it works again.

See
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/357

My unsubstantiated theory is that either the machine reboots a lot;

No, not the case. But...

the server software crashes & reloads a lot; or the nightly maintenance scripts
take things down for a little while and I happen to be in a bad time zone
for when that happens. Due to the up&down nature of it my guess has been
more towards the crashing theories.

... no, the real reason is that it uses an ancient SQLite. Having 30 trac
instances to SQLite 3 is a major PITA, so this needs to be well planned.
Additionally, first LDAP changes are needed to get it working with
trac 0.11. [1]

The heavily overloaded SAC team has scheduled this migration but it
still has to happen. Volunteers to assist SAC in general bug squashing [2]
are highly wanted.

Markus

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/365
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/1