Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in Parser.php on line 2458 - MediaWiki-l

4 Oct 2007


      While stress-testing our MediaWiki installation (hammering it with many
page requests), I saw a few of these in the Apache logs.   Any ideas?
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP Fatal error:
date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: Timezone database is
corrupt - this should *never* happen! in
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php on line 2458
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP Stack trace:
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   1.
{main}() D:\mediawiki\w\index.php:0
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   2.
MediaWiki->initialize() D:\mediawiki\w\index.php:89
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   3.
MediaWiki->initializeSpecialCases()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Wiki.php:45
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   4.
SpecialPage::executePath() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Wiki.php:201
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   5.
SpecialPage->execute() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\SpecialPage.php:459
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   6.
SpecialPage->setHeaders()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\SpecialPage.php:640
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   7.
OutputPage->setPageTitle()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\SpecialPage.php:628
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   8. wfMsg()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\OutputPage.php:220
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP   9.
wfMsgReal() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\GlobalFunctions.php:326
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  10.
wfMsgGetKey() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\GlobalFunctions.php:421
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  11.
MessageCache->get() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\GlobalFunctions.php:467
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  12.
MessageCache->transform()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\MessageCache.php:505
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  13.
Parser->transformMsg() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\MessageCache.php:589
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  14.
Parser->replaceVariables() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:3967
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  15.
Parser->replace_callback() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:2860
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  16.
call_user_func() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:2759
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  17.
Parser->braceSubstitution() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:0
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  18.
Parser->variableSubstitution()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:2968
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  19.
Parser->getVariableValue() D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:2892
[Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP  20. date()
D:\mediawiki\w\includes\Parser.php:2458
The line is: $localYear = date( 'Y', $ts );
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39993 looks related but it has been
closed.
I have filed http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42856.
MediaWiki 1.11.0
PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
Apache 2.2.6 (patched version for Windows from apachelounge.org)
Windows 2003 server
DanB