Gmail.com was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by sold » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

A tweet by The Onion:

[In Focus] Google Shuts Down Gmail To Show Its Immense Power http://onion.com/UxyLs8

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by graeme » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

sjbarag wrote: post #103

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

For what it's worth, I haven't had any crashes with either Chromium or Chrome on Ubuntu, but I'm not signed into my Google account via either. It looks like mail.google.com is back though. I guess I opened them after the issue was fixed.

It may be region specific, it's still down for me.

I've noticed that Hacker News seems slower since gmail went down. I'd be interested to know how traffic responded. I'm guessing a lot of people default to HN if they hit a roadblock in their work. I know I do.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by maxwell » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

cooldeal wrote: post #118

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

I wonder if folks with Chromebooks(and running Chrome OS, not Ubuntu) are able to use them at all now? Can anyone chime in?

Tested on my Cr-48 and login works, seems limited to Gmail.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by ig1 » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

Feedburner has also been sporadically returning temporary errors over the last hour. Looks like it's a google infrastructure problem.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by gprasanth » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

Ok, I would like to take this opportunity to ask something about HN.

What if, say a month later Gmail.com goes down again. Then, how do I submit another post to HN? I mean wouldn't I be redirected to this one?

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by baq » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

VMG wrote: post #107

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Chromium crash on Arch Linux with this message: http://pastebin.com/f9JMsPzT terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): bitset::set [1] 4934 abort (core dumped) chromium singing out of sync for now.. Edit: no crashes since I signed out of sync Edit2: found a more complete stack trace by somebody else: https://gist.github.com/4251938 Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/…

chrome aborts left and right on win7 64, too.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by vxxzy » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

I wonder if this post has anything to do with it: http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-secu...

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by loganfsmyth » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

Gmail work for me but chat isn't connecting.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by desireco42 » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

It happens to the best of us :) is all I can think of

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by SilasX » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #106

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Yes, Chrome is crashing every two minutes or so for me as well. I think it has to do with Gmail being open in one tab while Gmail is down. This is very bad.

Wha ... how ... why would browser performance be coupled to performance of one particular site? Firefox, Opera, even IE don't crash when they're offline and unable to connect to any site.