Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 9/16/07, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
People keep suggesting to use action=purge to convince the server to regenerate the image file. Well great, except doing that for all the broken flags on this page is beyond tedious. And besides, how is a casual reader supposed to do this.
Well, evidently by education: there's now a banner at the top of every page containing a link to the purge instructions. But is this really necessary?
A server ran out of disk space. It has been fixed. This is the cause of most (all?) of the recent spike of broken thumbnails.
My understanding is that, while the disk was full, every thumbnail that attempted to be created got created with size 0, and is therefore now broken. But I would assume that running a quick and simple
find -size 0 -print | xargs rm
(or the equivalent) on the affected server(s) would cause the broken images to all be automatically corrected, as needed. Am I wrong? Or are there too many servers, all of which that "quick and simple" command would have to be run on, or something?