[Bug] Portals in Frozen State during First Saturday March 2020
During this month's First Saturday event, we encountered several portals that got stuck in a specific state. This behauviour hasn't been observed in previous First Saturday events, so we believe it's a new bug.
The two videos below show the same portal "Höhenfestpunkt Durlach" (https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=48.999644,8.467029&z=22&pll=48.999632,8.467039) from the perspective of one Res agent and one Enl agent at about 15:00 UTC on March 7th,
Enl Agent: The portal looks to be green. But when the Enl agents wants to recharge, deploy mod or resonator, the portal suddenly turns blue while it still looks green to other agents and also looks green again to that agent after restarting the scanner.
Res Agent: The portal looks to be green, but firing bursters cannot harm it. Using an Ada Refractor results in the message "Target Portal already aligned".
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This was also happening at the Hexathlons. https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/9633/hexathlon-media-portal-stuck
And I saw it happen again last night, on a portal near me.
At the time, the Intel map showed it as still being green, level 1. It's now caught up and showing it neutral, with a timestamp of the time I originally attacked it (20:58 UTC, 45 minutes before recording this).
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.74818,-1.238065&z=18&pll=51.748718,-1.23967
Yesterday, by accident, we found a way to fix this issue:
Deploy a beacon (fireworks worked as well) on the portal, Bug was fixed instantly.