Hello,
I am hoping someone can help figure out what happened to our site. We are new to using any wiki program, but we were able to install 1.5.1 without any trouble. It was working fine, and several of us were getting used to how everything works. http://metaministry.com/wiki/
Last week, it suddenly 'broke' (for lack of a better word). I went to the MediaWiki home page, saw that there had been some sort of issue with 1.5.1 and so I promptly upgraded to 1.5.2, figuring that would correct our problem.
Unfortunately, it had no effect; we are still left with the meaningless (to us) gibberish and no way to use our site. http://metaministry.com/wiki/
I hope that I have explained this correctly, as I am not entirely sure of all the right words to use. Can anyone offer any suggestions to help us figure this out and restore the functionality to our site? We will certainly be most grateful.
Paul Oyler - SteelerDirtFreak Photography wrote:
Hello,
I am hoping someone can help figure out what happened to our site. We are new to using any wiki program, but we were able to install 1.5.1 without any trouble. It was working fine, and several of us were getting used to how everything works. http://metaministry.com/wiki/
Last week, it suddenly 'broke' (for lack of a better word). I went to the MediaWiki home page, saw that there had been some sort of issue with 1.5.1 and so I promptly upgraded to 1.5.2, figuring that would correct our problem.
Unfortunately, it had no effect; we are still left with the meaningless (to us) gibberish and no way to use our site. http://metaministry.com/wiki/
I hope that I have explained this correctly, as I am not entirely sure of all the right words to use. Can anyone offer any suggestions to help us figure this out and restore the functionality to our site? We will certainly be most grateful.
I don't know if this is important, but here are the various 'other' versions we have on our server: Apache version 1.3.34 (Unix) MySQL version 4.0.25-standard PHP version 4.3.11 PERL version 5.8.4 Operating system Linux Kernel version 2.6.13.2-grsec
Paul Oyler - SteelerDirtFreak Photography wrote:
Unfortunately, it had no effect; we are still left with the meaningless (to us) gibberish and no way to use our site. http://metaministry.com/wiki/
I hope that I have explained this correctly, as I am not entirely sure of all the right words to use. Can anyone offer any suggestions to help us figure this out and restore the functionality to our site? We will certainly be most grateful.
Well, "broke" and "gibberish" aren't really too useful. What we might be able to use is an error message, or a description of the symptoms.
Now, if I go to the URL you give above right now I see:
"Error in fetchObject(): Can't open file: 'page.InnoDB'. (errno: 1)" (followed by a stacktrace which is not too relevant)
They key problem here is your database error message. It sounds like you have some fundamental problem with MySQL. Check MySQL's error log; check the installation; check the data integrity of the files.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Well, "broke" and "gibberish" aren't really too useful. What we might be able to use is an error message, or a description of the symptoms.
Now, if I go to the URL you give above right now I see:
"Error in fetchObject(): Can't open file: 'page.InnoDB'. (errno: 1)" (followed by a stacktrace which is not too relevant)
They key problem here is your database error message. It sounds like you have some fundamental problem with MySQL. Check MySQL's error log; check the installation; check the data integrity of the files.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Again, I apologize for not knowing the right words to use; I wish I did, then perhaps we wouldn't have this problem that we have.
The symptom is that last Tuesday our site was perfectly fine. No one made any changes. On Thursday we were presented with the error that is currently on the site. We have completely uninstalled MediaWiki twice and re-installed it. Still no change.
How does one go about checking all of these things you suggested? I am not trying to be a wise-guy, it's just that we haven't a clue as what any of this means. Where would this error log be located? I just looked all thru the MySQL interface and see no place for logs to be checked. How and where do we check the installation? And we got the files straight from SourceForge, we have always been told that they provide files with integrity (is this what is meant by check data integrity of files?).
On other sites we have been able to use WordPress and PostNuke without problem, so we usually don't have a problem installing a program. And we didn't with MediaWiki either; everything was fine until sometime last week.
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
I just deleted everything, database included, and started over once again. It appears to have worked this time around.
Again, thanks for the help.
Paul Oyler - SteelerDirtFreak Photography wrote:
How does one go about checking all of these things you suggested?
You'll find the MySQL manual online at http://dev.mysql.com/
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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