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