On 1/26/06, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
This was on a debian (actually Ubuntu) system. After a little bit of poking around, I determined that the php session save path was /var/lib/php4 and that this directory didn't seem to exist. I looked at my backups and found out that it disappeard during the week when I had upgraded the server from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10.
It might be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu for that, if you can be bothered: clearly the packaging was broken if the PHP config referred to a path that wasn't going to exist. Unless you'd changed the php settings and said no to overwriting with an updated maintainer's version?
I brought it up on the ubuntu forums. I figured I'd first inquire whether anyone else had seen it.
Actually, I suspect that it was caused by a glitch in my upgrade and therefore not reproducible. I had a conflict on the system which caused the apt-get --distupgrade to stop before all of the packages were updated, and had to re-issue the command.
It wouldn't have been a case of not overwriting an updated config file, since it's not under /etc and therefore by debian rules NOT a config file. In any event php wasn't one of the config files which changed.
I probably will create a bug report though.
Now what I'd really love is for someone with the knowledge to debianize mediawiki and get Ubuntu to take it up as supported software!
-- Rick DeNatale
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