GnuCash wiki error on reCAPTCHA

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op woensdag 20 december 2017 23:31:45 CET schreef Tommy Trussell:
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Tommy Trussell <
> tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I'm trying to update the Ubuntu page at wiki.gnucash.org that I have
> > > updated in the past. It's been months since I've been logged in, so I
> just
> > > logged in anew.
> > >
> > > I made the change to the page, which includes a new URL, so I get the
> > > reCAPTCHA.
> > >
> > > When I enter the CAPTCHA text I get a blank page containing the error
> > >
> > > "Could not open socket"
> > >
> > > I have tried Firefox and Chromium, both with the same result.
> > >
> > > Various web searches imply the error is due to a network issue between
> the
> > > wiki server and the captcha server, but the problem has persisted for
> more
> > > than a half hour.
> > >
> > > Is the problem affecting other folks, too, or am I missing something?
> >
> > I'm still trying to update, and 24 hours later am still getting the
> "Could
> > not open socket" message.
> >
> > I deleted the two obsolete releases of Ubuntu (didn't trigger CAPTCHA)
> BUT
> > I am still trying to add the information for Ubuntu 17.10.
> >
> > If someone with edit rights to the wiki could go to the page
> >
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu
> >
> > and paste the markup below at the correct spot (above 17.04) and let me
> > know whether you get the same error.
> >
> >
> > === Ubuntu 17.10 ("Artful Aardvark") ===
> >
> > GnuCash 2.6.17 is included in Ubuntu 17.10, released October 2017
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/gnome/gnucash
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>
> I have added the section for you without problems. But I'm probably not a
> good
> reference as I have more rights in the wiki than most users...
>
> Derek, can you help debug this ?
>
> Tommy, perhaps this would be easier to test in an interactive session with
> Derek on irc. His nick there is 'warlord'.
>
> Geert
>
>
Geert, thank you for adding the URL!  I'm disappointed you didn't see the
bug, but glad to know it doesn't affect everyone.

I'm not in front of a screen reliably until next week; I will put on my
schedule to check back and see if I can get the error when Derek is
available to look at the server.