[Mediawiki-l] Hang up during installation...

[Dylan Kennet]

I'm trying to install MediaWiki 1.7.1 and the process hangs partway
through. After the "Initializing Data..." part, it just cuts off. My
Apache error logs report nothing, and when I did some debugging, I
found that it hangs on line 820 on config/index.php:
$u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName() );
Delving into that, the problem was specifically in the newFromName()
function...
A bunch of delving into that led me to line 461 on
include/Database.php . Oddly enough, if I change the new_link part of
mysql_connect() to be false, the install finishes (but then I get
blank screens whenever I try to use the resulting wiki).

It's entirely possible that there is some setting in php that is
causing this problem, but I don't know where to look. As said before,
nothing shows in my error logs, and I do have display_errors set to
on.

As is the norm, here is the text of the install page:

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

* PHP 5.1.4 installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is apache; 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.
* Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't
use object caching functions
* GNU diff3 not found.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be
enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: /home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki
* Script URI path: /wiki
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
* Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand().
Consider changing it manually.

Generating configuration file...
* Database type: MySQL
* Loading class: DatabaseMysql
* Attempting to connect to database server as wheeloft_wikiuse...success.
* Connected to 5.0.24-standard
* Database wheeloft_wiki exists

Warning: mysql_query() [http://www.mysql.com/doc]: Table
'wheeloft_wiki.wot_cur' doesn't exist in
/home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 620

Warning: mysql_query() [http://www.mysql.com/doc]: Table
'wheeloft_wiki.wot_revision' doesn't exist in
/home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 620
* Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs... done.
* Initializing data...