[Mediawiki-l] Recent PHP upgrade killed Mediawiki?

Kasimir Gabert kasimir.g at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 19:45:22 UTC 2007


Hello Tim,

What happens when you run a clean install of MediaWiki (in either
another directory or in another virtual host) -- does the error occur?
 This will let you know wether the problem is in your configuration,
or in some dependency.

I hope that this helps,
Kasimir

On 1/2/07, Matt <datahead4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There aren't any extensions (that I know of) in the base distro that
> are enabled by default.  You mentioned installing from ports - is
> MediaWiki being installed from the ports tree as well?  Also, are you
> using any kind of PHP accelerator (like APC or eAccelerator) and if so
> does the problem still happen?
>
> I run MediaWiki on FreeBSD as well, and I haven't had any problems
> with it yet.  However, my install is still using PHP 5.1.6 so if there
> is an issue with 5.2 I may just not have experienced it yet.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is some wacky dependency from the
> portupgrades that left some component in an unstable state.  How did
> you perform the portupgrade?  Did you use any of the automated tools
> or did you do them all by hand?  I have seen the odd issue on fbsd
> with port upgrades going awry when done in the wrong order.
>
> Matt
>
> On 1/2/07, Tim Hogan <tim at hoganzoo.com> wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> > I am not running anything other than the base install of mediawiki.  I
> > have added a couple of templates and changed the logo in the upper
> > left-hand corner but other than that, nothing.  Are there extensions
> > that come with the base distro that I my not be aware of and where do I
> > find them?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > On 1/1/2007 11:59 AM, Matt wrote:
> > > If you are using any MediaWiki extensions, I would start by disabling
> > > those first to see if it fixes it.  I've seen at least one issue that
> > > threw the same error and ended up being an incompatible extension.
> > >
> > > On 1/1/07, Tim Hogan <tim at hoganzoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I run a mediawiki v1.8.2 on a FreeBSD box and it has been working fine
> > >> for a while now.  I recently updated the ports on FreeBSD which means
> > >> that apache, php, php modules, and a few other things were updated and
> > >> from that time forward mediawiki stopped working, I just get a blank
> > >> page.  What is strange is that all of my other php application still
> > >> work, mediawiki is the only application that stopped working.
> > >>
> > >> The only thing that I can find is this error in apaches logs;
> > >>
> > >> [Sat Dec 30 01:55:17 2006] [error] [client 10.1.1.58] PHP Fatal error:
> > >> Cannot access protected property DatabaseMysql::$mOut in
> > >> /data/webapps/mediawiki-1.8.2/includes/Database.php on line 415
> > >>
> > >> [Sat Dec 30 02:09:44 2006] [notice] child pid 15919 exit signal
> > >> Segmentation fault (11)
> > >> [Sat Dec 30 02:09:44 2006] [notice] child pid 15917 exit signal
> > >> Segmentation fault (11)
> > >>
> > >> Any Ideas as to what happened?
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Tim
> > >>
> > >>
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