I'm having problems with the forums, where if my session lasts longer than X minutes (where X is something small), it goes away - and my "last visited" information goes with it. This makes it impossible to keep track of the latest posts in threads unless I open up a zillion tabs, and it also causes problems when I post (I just got an "invalid session" message on my last post that required me to resubmit it).

Anyone else having this problem?

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Bus error (passengers dumped)

Not directly related to the forums issue, but I quite often get session timeouts while in the "control panel" switching between tabs say "Network" back to "Dashboard".

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Yah. Lately the board is considering me logged out after only a couple of minutes of "idle" (reading a longer topic or writing a post)....

Try clearing all the cookies associated with the forum; fixed the problem for me!

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Rgds
Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Clearing all the (linode.com bound) cookies does not solve the problem. While it fixes situations where I cannot even login, I still get logged out after a few clicks. This is fourth time I'm trying to post this message.

I'm now getting this problem.

How's this for a short session?!

You last visited on Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:04 pm
The time now is Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:07 pm

No wonder all the messages get marked as read

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Rgds

Stephen

(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

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I was thinking my chrome browser is at fault. I regularly clear all the cookies / temp files using ccleaner and still every time i try to log into the forum, it registers my last visited time and logs me out instantly without even 1 second of being logged in. When I do it the second time, the logged status stays but my last visit time is gone. And me too have to open us at least 15~20 tabs to track new posts and replies.

I am using XP, Google Chrome [latest, but problem persists since I was using v6].

I am confused if it is a problem with the browser / forum ??? Really its annoying to visit soo many individual posts for updates...

Even now while I wrote this small reply soon after logging and reading this topic, while posting I get Invalid Session. Please resubmit the form. While it is still showing me as logged in...

I'm not 100% sure, but I think www.linode.com is spread between a few load balancers. Could it be they're not sharing the session data, somehow?

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rsk, providing useless advice on the Internet since 2005.

Every developer/sysadmin has a to-do list, and there's always a lump of coal that sits at the bottom of it for all eternity because dealing with it will be a pain in the ass.

If it were on my to-do list, "Fix phpBB on the cluster" would be that item.

-rt ("Scoop up the landmines and mow the lawn")

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s/Fix phpBB on the cluster/Get rid of phpBB 2/

This reply probably isn't going to come through even though I'm logged in.

But I 2nd mwalling's comment. Replace this crappy software. (let the phpBB advocates come out of the woodwork now....)

My first advice would be SMF, but I hear phpBB 3 is fine too. As long as it has "VIEW UNREAD POSTS" option that KEEPS unread between two logins, I'm all fine.

btw, what is there to "fix" phpbb on a cluster? just have memcached handle sessions...