Mastodawn

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Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

API calls are working. Just the Web logins that are failing.

Any help much appreciated

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin

Serpkah 🌱6d ago

#mastoadmins habt ihr gerade auch so Probleme wieder mit spam bots die sich auf eurer geschlossenen Instanz anmelden wollen oder hamse mich gerade einfach ausgesucht atm?

Chewie Mar 5

#MastoAdmins: ali525-q.hf.space seems to be a source of "mutual aid" spam.
When you go to the domain, there's just a huggingface loading page.

I suggest you add it to your #blocklist if you haven't already

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athmane mokraoui [BoF] ⏚ꝃñ⌁⁂Mar 2

Merci de bien vouloir faire sauter ce compte.

#MastoAdmins #Spam

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Klarname 🌈Mar 1

@thomas this and the Private Moderators make the difference. Thanks to All our valueable #mastoadmins as well

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Feb 28

Question to #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins:

How would you qualify a Mastodon instance that has 10k accounts but only 63 original posts (not counting replies) in a 24 hour span?

Yes, this is a post about theForkiverse.com ... I'm trying to gauge how active it is, what its future may be...

One of its admins / mods (Kevin) hasn't posted anything since January 24th and it's disappointing if this turns out to be another high profile example of a hyped up Fediverse instance that quickly fizzles out 😭

On my end, I've been trying to interact (via my Mastodon account) with people on that instance to make them feel seen and valued.

But the lack of activity by its members and admins is a cause for concern, sigh.

I thought this was only me but then this morning I saw this toot by a member of that instance: https://theforkiverse.com/@NotYours/116147206887032255

Thoughts?

Not Yours (@[email protected])

I think we lost our fearless leaders here. I haven’t seen @Casey, @kevin and @pj on here in awhile. How do we feel about that?

The Forkiverse

Robert Riemann 🇪🇺Feb 21

Dear #mastoadmins, I'd like to improve the current setup using #caddy and #podman #compose. Is anyone using #podman #quadlet with #systemd? Also I understand that having the connection between caddy reverse proxy and mastodon via sockets is very cool and I'd like to give this a try as well.

Systemd is now offering keeping podman quadlet containers up to date by itself. Maybe this one can be leveraged as well.

#mastodon #serveradmin

Chewie Feb 15

#MastoAdmins - if you have problems with the "Fetch All Replies" function in v4.4 and 4.5 of Mastodon, check your "pull queue" in Sidekiq.

The function was working for me for a while, but then I started getting a circular "loading" icon at the bottoms of threads, and the remote replies would never appear.

This may have been because I added some more relays recently.

After chatting with some other admins in the Matrix support channel, I checked my Sidekiq queues, and there were 1.2m entries 😱

I found this article https://thomas-leister.de/en/scaling-up-mastodon/, which mentions splitting up the queue pollers into different services and I saw the same symptoms, htop was showing sidekiq's 25 threads, but only 1 of them was actually busy, and using 100% CPU, where other CPUs were mostly idle.

My machine is pretty beefy - A VM on SSDs, 4 vCPUs (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz) and 48gb RAM, so the bottleneck is the lack of proper automatic multithreading in Sidekiq?

In the end I followed Thomas' instructions, and created 2 extra system services that just serviced the Mastodon "pull" queue (1 was not enough).

9 days later, the queue is now at 0, and reading posts in Mastodon now seems to pull in the new replies again 🥳

I have now disabled one of the 1 pull queue services, in the hope that one for the pull queue is enough.

😅

#MastoAdmin

Huggenknubbel Feb 13

Für den userupload hat mastodon ein Limit von 16mb bei Bildern. Diese werden dann intern kleiner gerechnet. Aber wie sieht das mit Bildern aus, die von anderen Instanzen abgeholt werden?
Ein 10 MB Bild, macht hier bei mastodon.social keine Probleme. Bei ein paar anderen Instanzen aber schon. Ist das Bild kleiner, geht es. Die Grenze kenne ich allerdings nicht. 2mb scheinen noch überall zu funktionieren.

Ich verstehe die Ursache nicht wirklich. Und ich habe auch keine Konfiguration dazu gefunden.
#mastoadmins

manitu GmbH Feb 9

Mal eine Frage an die #mastoadmins

Wir haben hier bei einigen Accounts auf Remote-Servern das Problem, dass weder Avatar noch Header angezeigt werden, also Avatar ist nur "Standard".

Das dürfte ein tootctl accounts refresh fixen, oder?