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LifeInfusion
23-10-2005, 05:02
Why does it seem that some avatars are corrupted and some are fine? Or is it me?
MoonUnit
23-10-2005, 05:19
While I dunno what causes them to become corrupted. You just need to upload yer 'tar again and it will be fine.
nightrunner
23-10-2005, 07:41
It seems to happen whenever the admins maitenence the server. Just reload it and it's fixed again :D
Chantal Dubois
23-10-2005, 16:24
Yep, it happens about every time the admins shuffle things around on the servers. As there's supposed to be a new server installed this week, it's likely to happen again then, so I'll just wait to re-upload mine. ;)
Tinarto
23-10-2005, 16:34
Yep, it happens about every time the admins shuffle things around on the servers.Hum, why?

10 characters for a simple question so here's a sentence that makes my post longer.
Glenn_Irving
24-10-2005, 08:01
Hum, why?

10 characters for a simple question so here's a sentence that makes my post longer.

Who knows. Maybe it's because the server lost connection to the database which resulted with the Avatars to screw up. Or maybe I just made that all up to make it sound like I knew what I was talking about but in reality I don't know jack about servers.
snowkissed
24-10-2005, 08:05
It has to do with the database information being moved. For some reason the way the images are stored in the database makes them susceptible to being messed up once in a new spot. I'm not sure why or exactly why, but that's all that can be said. Simply upload it again and you're good to go. I think it's safe to say that once the new server is up, this shouldn't be a very big problem at all.
Wandalf
24-10-2005, 08:24
If they are stored in the database itself, they will most likely be in a BLOB format, Binary Large OBject, which is a common datatype in databases.
And it can be true that such BLOBs can be very fragile if they're moved around on servers; causing the bytes to be messed up.
Vexed Arcanist
24-10-2005, 18:35
If they are stored in the database itself, they will most likely be in a BLOB format, Binary Large OBject, which is a common datatype in databases.
And it can be true that such BLOBs can be very fragile if they're moved around on servers; causing the bytes to be messed up.

Is this an apache specific problem?
Wandalf
24-10-2005, 18:40
Is this an apache specific problem?
Hmm, no idea really.
Although BLOBs are common database datatypes (like date, string, integer, ...) it could be the combination between an Apache server and certain databases.
ccrazool
24-10-2005, 19:08
it happens to my avatar about once a week and I use an offsite avatar. Kind of a pain to constantly re-wire it here in my cpanel.
Wandalf
24-10-2005, 19:21
it happens to my avatar about once a week and I use an offsite avatar. Kind of a pain to constantly re-wire it here in my cpanel.
This sort of confirms the idea of BLOBs.
Most likely the database loads offsite avatars locally as objects, thus actually copying them.
This could to avoid possible missing avatars if the other site is offline or unreachable.

Again, I'm not sure about this theory. I'm just brainstorming here to try and find an explanation for the scrambled avatars every time files are moved on the server.
Tinarto
25-10-2005, 00:10
Huh. Thanks for the guesses, I sorta learned something.
(Feel free to keep brainstorming for an exact answer though! :) )