Have you tried running the Rebuild Message Index and Board Totals in the Admin utilities? (Because I just followed your links as a guest and got to message #615 and beyond).
However - the http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1357305685/600#612 takes me to near the bottom of message #612 instead of the top, which is a little odd.

As a Guest, the order of the posts isn't reversed - which I kind of assume they must be for users as http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1357305685 goes to Post #0 for me and you're indicating you should be going to post #615+.

That fixed it, but it is happening again already. This thread for example has a post count that is one behind. I got directed here after making post #155

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1355830576/150#154

Is there some underlying bug, or could it just be the server cutting out occasionally and not finishing the job?

freediver can you send me a copy of the source code for testing if it is ok you can email me on the email button or the Gtalk button this is.


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Dandello, should the page count be 'recalculated' from scratch every time there is a new post? Or is the number merely incremented - in which case a fault can only be corrected by running maintenance?

Also, in reference to earlier posts, I do not have the post order reversed. I have 15 posts per page, with the first post at the top of page 1.

xnoddyx wrote on Jan 16^th, 2013 at 2:25pm:


Tracing out the code it's a little more complicated than that - the number of replies is first written to the topic's CTB file in ./Messages by Post.pl, then the number from the CTB file is read and written into the board data file in./Boards. The data from for ./Boards is the one that gets read to determine the page numbers and such. (But I expect that could be changed to reading from the CTB instead.) And the number in the CTB is simply incremented.

So there could be a mis-writing for either of those two files. (And if it's a bug, then it's prior to 2.4 as that code hasn't been changed since at least that point. But it if were a bug, then I'd expect someone would have reported it before now - 2.4 is almost 4 years old - and it would be affecting other forums.)

I'm wondering if your forum is extremely busy, there might, possibly, maybe, be some sort of limit on how many files can be open to be written to at one time?

On a test - the next time this happens, take a copy of that message file's ctb file AND a copy of that board's data file. (As close together in time as possible - put your forum in Maintenance to keep these files intact while you do this.)

Board file:

1345913802|We're now on 2.5.4|Dandello|xxxx@xxxxxx.net|1345913802|0|admin|xx|0a
 

and the CTB for that Topic.

### ThreadID: 1345913802, LastModified: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:58:53 +0000 ###

'board',"announcements"
'replies',"0"
'views',"37"
'lastposter',"admin"
'lastpostdate',"1345913802"
'threadstatus',"0a"
'repliers',"1355453702|admin|0"
 

The two highlighted spots should should match.

The two numbers match, but are incorrect. There were 77 posts in the thread at the time. I made a test post before I put the forum into maintenance mode and transferred the files.

I had to use manual transfer because of the number of thread files, which is also handy because filezilla stores your requests and then transfers them all at once.

1358297766|Bloody Carbon Tax My Lunch went up 50 cents|BlOoDy RiPpEr|xxxx@xxxx.com|1358414264|76|bloody.ripper|xx|0


### ThreadID: 1358297766, LastModified: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:23:57 +1000 ###

'board',"politicians"
'replies',"76"
'views',"622"
'lastposter',"freediver"
'lastpostdate',"1358414264"
'threadstatus',"0"
s_on|0,1358414556|Rider|0,1358414637|philperth2010|0"

The URL I got directed to after making reply #77:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1358297766/75#76

I didn't count the lines, but I got directed to the post immediately prior to mine after making that post. I got directed to this URL:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1358297766/75#76

after making the post marked reply #77