[Mediawiki-l] Recent PHP upgrade killed Mediawiki?

[Tim Hogan]

Thank you Matt for pointing me in the right direction.  Though I don't 
have a solution I do have a work around.

To start with I do not run the ports version of mediawiki.  I use the 
tar-ball distro from mediawiki's web site.  I upgraded my system using 
the portupgrade tool and I too have see problems with the order that 
portupgrade compiles packages.  In this case however the problem child 
turned out to be the new version of eAccelerator (v0.9.5).  I have used 
eAccelerator for so long without any issues that I totally forgot about 
it.  I tried to recompile eAccelerator after all of the other updates 
were complete and that mad no difference.  It appears that there is some 
issue with mediawiki, php v5.2.0, and eAccelerator v.0.9.5.  Seeing that 
none of my other php applications are having an issue I am guessing that 
there is a bug somewhere in mediawiki's script that checks to see if you 
are logged in or not.  After out many different ideas my workaround 
ended up being to add the following in my .htaccess file in my mediawiki 
directory;

php_value eaccelerator.filter "*.php 
!/data/webapps/mediawiki-1.8.2/includes/*.php"

Not sure how that allows it to work as I still see mediawiki's php 
scripts being processed by eAccelerator, but it's working so I am not 
going to complain :)

Thanks again Matt  and thanks to everyone else who gave me another idea 
to try.

Tim


On 1/2/2007 8:04 AM, Matt 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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