am 26.02.2012 00:23 schrieb Platonides:
On 25/02/12 14:54, Peter Velan wrote:
The problem was this extension ...
Renameuser Adds a special page to rename a user (need renameuser right) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason and Aaron Schulz
I really doubt it was renameuser extension.
... and you're right!
Did you have some extension (or bot) to automatically block edits from outside your company?
No. But I'm not sure about extensions installed in November 2007!
Or maybe it was just a normal block, set on 13th November 2007, which now suddenly became active. Look for that block at Special:Log/block There were some changes to blocks in 1.18, maybe something that meant something different before (and for some reason hadn't been purged), now was interpreted as an infinite. Looking at the table row would be interesting.
My solution was a little bit rude: I truncated the table "ipblocks".
Just out of curiosity, I restored the content of "ipblocks" from backup and yes, you have correctly described my problem:
There were 2 entries in "ipblocks" associated with my name (both stamped with "2007-11-13"). After upgrade to 1.18 (and "some changes to blocks") an attempt to enter the wiki with my username (which was blocked since 2007-11-13), created an additional block entry, now blocking any user with this specific IP address!
I hope my rude solution (truncation of "ipblocks") will no lead to unpleasant side effects.
Thanks to all, Peter