On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Chuck Bishop wrote:
I have a user account whose browser comes up blank after they changed their skin to Nostalgia. I've noticed that there's a Reset preferences button in the Special:Preferences page(which they can not see), however, I can not capture the command it's issuing. Do you know what it is? Or how to reset their skin?
The reset button is a standard HTML form button which resets the form controls to the state they originally had when the page was loaded. It doesn't act on the server at all.
I don't know why the screen would come up blank, but you can manually edit the user_options field in the database, or simply clear it to the defaults.
To clear: UPDATE user SET user_options='' WHERE user_name='User Name' LIMIT 1;
I'm using MediaWiki 1.3.3 on Linux.
Please upgrade to 1.3.6 immediately; there are potentially serious security vulnerabilities in earlier versions.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)