Adobe, a U.S. computer software company, ended support for Flash on Dec. 30 last year and banned all Flash content from running on Tuesday (Jan. 12). The Dalian section of the Liaoning Shenyang Railway Bureau recently failed to stop using Flash in a timely manner, making it impossible for some stations to make up train transfer plans and train grouping schedules, and for staff to view train operating charts, causing the railroad system to be paralyzed for more than 20 hours. The system was paralyzed for more than 20 hours, and the station finally had to reduce the software version to stop the chaos.
The official WeChat of the Dalian section of the Shenyang Railway Bureau said that the staff received a report last Tuesday (12) that the system page could not be displayed, making it impossible for them to view the train diagram. After 30 minutes, almost the entire section’s transport production computers failed, paralyzing the railroad transport management information system and interrupting information sharing between the railroad bureau and stations. After investigation, the cause of the accident was related to Adobe’s total ban on Flash operation. Dalian section immediately took emergency measures to implement downgrade debugging, start backup equipment, hardware replacement, etc., to try to restore flash operation, and finally restarted service after 1 day.
However, the section corrected on Friday (15) that the failure did not cause a complete paralysis of the railroad system, and that it was not the railroad dispatching system that was affected by the Flash suspension, but some of the newly purchased computers with the latest Flash version installed, which could not access the statistical current car system through the browser, stressing that the railroad transport production was not affected by the failure in any way.
In addition, the Dalian section also issued a commendation on WeChat, praising the wonderful performance of this emergency “attack”, and the Railway Bureau even said that “everyone is a master”, but the relevant posting was sarcastic by netizens, saying that “Flash is no longer in the news, should have updated the railroad system a long time ago”, “the last solution is to downgrade, and not to develop new software overnight, there is something worth promoting. The train service section was attacked by netizens and has now deleted the article.
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