Problem Listing
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About the Official Problem Listing
This is a section documenting the features in ComicGenesis that do not work, or have been disabled. Please make sure that it is a REAL bug, and not just a user misunderstanding before you report it. Please try and include dates to when it started not working.
Major Bugs
Site Admin Disabled
Since July 2005, Siteadmin's main site has been disabled while the underlying code is being rewritten by the Admins (to overcome a problem with the server software). In the meantimes, users are encouraged to use this temporary link.
Kisai -- The new version of siteadmin is running, but has none of the old features yet.
Kelly (on Oct 2005) -- Kisai's got a version of SiteAdmin running, but you will need a CG Forum account first so you can use it on all your comics.
Signup Verification Emails are Delayed
If you don't get your Signup Verification Email immedately, you're not alone. Signup Verification Emails are sent out by another process on the server, not the signup CGI you used. It should take at most 2-4 hours for it to be sent from our servers -- and we know, there's absolutely no reason for it to do so. It's a design flaw that requires some porting over to be fixed.
Known Problematic ISP's
- Main article: Known Problematic ISP's
Minor Bugs
The Newsbox Shows Up As a Blank Image
The newsbox will conflict with "tagboards" that don't have an id attribute. That's the only fix needed.
This will also fix problems with the advertisement goofing up the tagboard.
Comics Cannot Change or Add Authors
Authors can change their author information. They cannot add authors because of a) errors associated with having multiple listed authors on a comic b) it gives too much access to the author database and has been reserved for Comic Genesis Admin use.
Author names can not contain non-latin characters - This is a legacy problem of the conversion from Mysql 4.0 to 4.1 , if non-latin characters are used, it doesn't break the authors list, but it causes "error in output" in the guide and the rss.xml files will not work (as they are expected to be latin.)
Kisai - The current version is a chicken and egg problem. You can't add an author without giving them comic admin access, but only an server admin can add an author. What is there to stop someone from adding all their buddies to it, and then one of the buddies decides to delete the person who actually owns it?
Webalizer logs occasionally not tracking data
Since August 2005. Webalizer logs have been missing whole chunks and days worth of tracking data. Guide rankings disrupted as a result?
Kelly says: Kisai and I are mucking around with different ways of logging data, and trying to get it into a more managable form so Webalizer will run faster.
Forum Bugs
Auto-Login Cookie Not Working
Since June 2005(Random,) the automatic login does not appear to be working, so users have to type in their username and password every time they access the forum to post something.
Kisai - This is caused by accessing the forums, front page, or siteadmin while the database was unavailable. The session code in phpbb/frontpage/siteadmin will expire the cookie in the php code when it can't access the database, resulting in the browser being told to delete the cookie and presenting the login page. It's not so much a bug as a security feature. This problem is also replicated in siteadmin with the always being presented with the login page even when cookies are enabled.
- NOTE* The reason this isn't really a bug is it's a "security feature" in web browsers that prevent sites from grabbing other sites cookies. Unfortunately it's even more of a security risk to have auto-login enabled if you aren't the only person who has access to your PC. What has changed on the backend is that the main server has a shadow copy of the session table from the forums, if it goes out of sync, auto-login get's smashed.
FYI, if you can not login to the forums/siteadmin, you need to delete the cookies and then close and reopen the web browser
Comic Genesis Logo Image is Broken
The Comic Genesis Logo Image on the top-left corner shows up as a broken image. fixed on the forums.
