hi
There's been a problem for the past few days on the Afrikaans wikipedia. Everytime I try and preview/edit, I get:
---- Software error: Could not get editing lock at /home/usemod/wiki-af/work-http/wiki.cgi line 3224.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (lee@piclab.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
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I've sent messages to that address, but since the software is old, I guess the email is too.
thanks,
ian gilfillan
On Nov 2, 2003, at 03:14, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
There's been a problem for the past few days on the Afrikaans wikipedia. Everytime I try and preview/edit, I get:
For future reference, when this occurs do:
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?action=unlock
This fixes up a problem with the old software where it sometimes doesn't clear its lock file and so thinks that someone else is trying to save a page at the same time, and backs off waiting... and waiting... until it gives up. The above command clears the lock manually.
I'm going to have to see if I can change the address in the config; Lee isn't really involved in Wikipedia much anymore.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Nov 2, 2003, at 03:14, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
There's been a problem for the past few days on the Afrikaans wikipedia. Everytime I try and preview/edit, I get:
For future reference, when this occurs do:
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?action=unlock
This fixes up a problem with the old software where it sometimes doesn't clear its lock file and so thinks that someone else is trying to save a page at the same time, and backs off waiting... and waiting... until it gives up. The above command clears the lock manually.
I'm going to have to see if I can change the address in the config; Lee isn't really involved in Wikipedia much anymore.
How hard would it be to make it put that unlock link in the error message? Just a thought.
-- Jake
On Nov 2, 2003, at 17:13, Jake Nelson wrote:
How hard would it be to make it put that unlock link in the error message? Just a thought.
I believe UseModWiki 1.0 will unlock automatically; I'll check if there's any problem with just dropping in the newer script.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Ian Gilfillan wrote:
There's been a problem for the past few days on the Afrikaans wikipedia. Everytime I try and preview/edit, I get:
Software error: Could not get editing lock at /home/usemod/wiki-af/work-http/wiki.cgi line 3224.
Try to access the magic URL ..../wiki.cgi?action=unlock and see if that helps. This is standard procedure in UseModWiki.
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