I ran into the same problem and found the answer on the mediawiki.sourcefore.org bug list by searching for "pear_error".

The solution is to alter the file PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/PHPTAL.php and replace the line:

define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', '/tmp/');

to point to a new /tmp directory I made within the wiki's file tree.

At first it didn't work, until I remembered to make my local /tmp directory writeable...

John Ingleby ************ Webmaster - www.schoolforge.org.uk

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:15:44 +0200 From: Thomas Rother t.rother@netzwissen.de Subject: [Mediawiki-l] PEAR error To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Message-ID: 40FE5E70.7090407@netzwissen.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Hi, does anyone know what this PEAR error means:

[pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Permission denied" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

I saw this with a fresh installation of 1.3 CVS (20.7.04)

Any ideas???

Bye, Thomas

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