Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
>> Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
>>> When trying to access it I get:
>>>
>>> phpBB : Critical Error
>>> Could not connect to the database
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I hope so : )
>>
>> It went down some time after 6 this morning (CST - noon UTC).
>>
>> I sent an email to "webmaster@forums.gentoo.org" and it didn't bounce,
>> but I have no idea if anybody read it, or is fixing the problem.
>>
>> Anyway, it's only been down for, what, maybe 7 hours or so.  hopefully
>> it will come back up soon.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Mississippi USA reports same error.  2:00 CST

On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being
moved to a new server cluster. Perhaps something's not well with the
new setup.