Just a note on Ubuntu and the Forums thereof: The forums and the Mailinglist are very different creatures indeed, and are populated by different segments of the Ubuntu user/ developerbase. The forums are mostly user-on-user discussions, which are barely touched by the developers. So, if you're looking for explanations or to file bugs in Ubuntu, the forums are hardly the place for it.
On 26-Jan-06, at 3:13 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
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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