[Mediawiki-l] Installation fails

[Terry Lalonde]

I believe that at that point the install tries to authenticate with
mysql using a different user. So the issue is most likely a mysql
authentication issue.  I recommend that you enable logging on mysqld
try again and see what mysql's problem is.

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Wagg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Installation fails
> 
> I am trying to install  media wiki, but it fails whilst its creating
the
> database. There doesn't seem to be any specific error and it has
> succesfully created the database with some tables etc.
> 
> Thanks, Andy
> 
> 
>   MediaWiki 1.4rc1 installation
> 
> /Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
> problems./
> 
> 
>     Checking environment...
> 
>     * PHP 5.0.3: ok
>     * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs
>       (index.php/Page_Title)
>     * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
>     * PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
>     * Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
>     * Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/> not
>       installed, can't use object caching functions
>     * Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing
> disabled.
>     * Installation directory: /usr/local/web/htdocs/wiki
>     * Script URI path: /wiki
>     * Connected as root (automatic)
>     * Connected to database... 4.1.8-max; enabling MySQL 4
enhancements
>     * Database wikidb exists
>     * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if
>       updates are needed...
>     * Granting user permissions...
> 
> ...linkscc table already exists.
> ...hitcounter table already exists.
> ...querycache table already exists.
> ...objectcache table already exists.
> ...categorylinks table already exists.
> ...logging table already exists.
> ...user_rights table already exists.
> 
> 
> *Warning*:  mysql_query() [http://www.mysql.com/doc]: Table
> 'wikidb.user_vulnerable' doesn't exist in
> */usr/local/web/htdocs/wiki/includes/Database.php* on line *312*
> 
> ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table.
> ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table.
> ...have rc_type field in recentchanges table.
> ...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table.
> ...have rc_id field in recentchanges table.
> ...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table.
> ...have user_real_name field in user table.
> ...have user_token field in user table.
> ...have ur_user field in user_rights table.
> ...have log_params field in logging table.
> ...already have interwiki table
> ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
> ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good.
> Converting links table to ID-ID....
> Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot
> contact the database server.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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