New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki became unavailable--interpreting error messages

16 Mar 2007

My wiki unexpectedly became unavailable (no Mainpage displayed). The 
error log shows the following sorts of messages. I would very much 
appreciate any suggestions on where to start.

The first problem occured when I tried to save edits to a page. 
Attempting to save a second time produced no error. (I have plenty of 
storage available.) This behaviour happened several times.
[15-Mar-2007 11:38:51] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of
8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in
/home/egnatoff/public_html/wiki/includes/SearchUpdate.php on line 99
.  .  .
[15-Mar-2007 11:47:23] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of
8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in
/home/egnatoff/public_html/wiki/includes/SearchUpdate.php on line 61
[15-Mar-2007 11:50:28] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of
8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in
/home/egnatoff/public_html/wiki/includes/SearchUpdate.php on line 99
The database then became unavailable.
[15-Mar-2007 13:38:33] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot access protected
property DatabaseMysql::$mOut in
/home/egnatoff/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 429
. . .
The message changed:
[16-Mar-2007 07:00:11] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot access protected
property OutputPage::$mParserOptions in
/home/egnatoff/public_html/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php on line 49
. . .
Versions
MediaWiki 1.9.2
My service provider uses
Linux, kernel 2.6.9-023stab040.1-enterprise
Apache 1.3.37 (Unix)
PHP 5.2.1
MySQL 5.0.24-standard
(access to files through cPanels)

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Bill Egnatoff

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William J. Egnatoff egnatoff(a)kingston.net
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
613 634-3341