GnuCash wiki error on reCAPTCHA

[Derek Atkins]

Unfortunately I'm away on holiday and don't have enough my laptop with me, 
so this will have to wait until January.  I suspect it's an IPv6 issue.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.



On December 22, 2017 1:14:08 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 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.
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