[Mediawiki-l] Strange problem with search

Fri Jun 13 06:11:08 UTC 2008

Hi,

I stopped my apache cleared the error log and restarted. Then I directly
called the search url with 'transaction' as keyword and got the blank
screen. Then I called the url with 'transaction backout' as the keyword
and got the search results. The error log contents is below:

[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0
configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 16:49:49
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4336
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Child 4336: Child process is running
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Child 4336: Acquired the start
mutex.
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Child 4336: Starting 250 worker
threads.
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:24 2008] [notice] Child 4336: Starting thread to
listen on port 80.
[Fri Jun 13 11:32:52 2008] [error] [client 192.168.62.1] File does not
exist: D:/Program Files/EasyPHP
2.0b1/www/sunwiki/extensions/searchsuggest/style.css, referer:
http://sbsws469/sunwiki/?search=transaction+backout&fulltext=Search 

I commented out all my extensions and tried, but in vain.

As I said earlier, the search is not failing on all the words, but only
on some words. That's making this problem worse.. :) 

Regards,

Jack
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:15 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Strange problem with search

Um... which logfile are you getting this from?  I was wondering more
about the httpd error log and expecting a php message like: FATAL
ERROR: something or other on line X in something.php.

Also, is the white screen of death dependent on any extensions?  I
recently found one with one of my extensions (PagesOnDemand/
PMIDonDemand - I wrote the latter, so it's my fault!) where a failure
condition didn't check to see whether creation of an article object  
had succeeded, followed by trying to call a method on a non-object.    
I'm wondering if either
a) and extension is sensitive to the specific page names that cause the
crash or
b) database damage is leading to failure to create a page that MW  
thinks is there, but which doesn't have the right database entries.   
That usually doesn't give the white screen of death, though.

Jim

On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Jack Eapen C wrote:

>
>
> I'm getting a "white screen of death". Here's the info from log file:
>
> Main cache: FakeMemCachedClient
> Message cache: MediaWikiBagOStuff
> Parser cache: MediaWikiBagOStuff
> Unstubbing $wgParser on call of $wgParser->setHook from wfFlashMP3 
> Unstubbing $wgMessageCache on call of $wgMessageCache->addMessages 
> from efNewestPages Unstubbing $wgContLang on call of 
> $wgContLang->getMagic from MagicWord::load Unstubbing $wgLang on call 
> of $wgLang->getCode from smwfInitMessages Unstubbing $wgUser on call 
> of $wgUser->getOption from StubUserLang::_newObject
> Language::loadLocalisation(): got localisation for en from source 
> Unstubbing $wgLoadBalancer on call of $wgLoadBalancer->getConnection 
> from wfGetDB
> IP: 192.168.62.1
> MessageCache::load(): got from global cache Unstubbing $wgOut on call 
> of $wgOut->addScript from TreeView4::addJS Fully initialised Request 
> ended normally
>
>
> Start request
> GET /sunwiki/?search=transaction&fulltext=Search
> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, 
> application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
> Referer: http://sbsws469/sunwiki/?title=Main_Page
> Accept-Language: en-us
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; 
> .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
> Host: sbsws469
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
>
> Main cache: FakeMemCachedClient
> Message cache: MediaWikiBagOStuff
> Parser cache: MediaWikiBagOStuff
> Unstubbing $wgParser on call of $wgParser->setHook from wfFlashMP3
> Unstubbing $wgMessageCache on call of $wgMessageCache->addMessages  
> from
> efNewestPages
> Unstubbing $wgContLang on call of $wgContLang->getMagic from
> MagicWord::load
> Unstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang->getCode from smwfInitMessages
> Unstubbing $wgUser on call of $wgUser->getOption from
> StubUserLang::_newObject
> Language::loadLocalisation(): got localisation for en from source
> Unstubbing $wgLoadBalancer on call of $wgLoadBalancer->getConnection
> from wfGetDB
> IP: 192.168.62.1
> MessageCache::load(): got from global cache
> Unstubbing $wgOut on call of $wgOut->addScript from TreeView4::addJS
> Fully initialised
> Would search with '+transaction'
> Match with /\btransaction\b/
> Would search with '+transaction'
> Match with /\btransaction\b/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> "May He protect us both. May He cause us both to enjoy.May we exert
> together. May our studies become brilliant. May we not hate each  
> other"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:01 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Strange problem with search
>
> Anything in the error logs when you get the blank page?  And by  
> blank to
> you mean white screen of death or blank wiki skin with no content?
>
> Jim
>
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Jack Eapen C wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mod_security is not enabled in my server -i.e I checked the  
>> httpd.conf
>
>> file and the apache modules folder. Reference to the particulat  
>> module
>
>> is not in the conf file and the mod-security.so file is not in the
>> folder. Any other hints, plz?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jack
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> "May He protect us both. May He cause us both to enjoy.May we exert
>> together. May our studies become brilliant. May we not hate each
>> other"
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion
>> Vibber
>> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:27 AM
>> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Strange problem with search
>>
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>> Jack Eapen C wrote:
>>> When I search with SOME keywords, my production wiki returns a
>>> "blank"
>>> page. If I use the same words on the test wiki, no probs-results are
>>> returned (content in both wikis are same). Some of the problematic
>>> words are "transaction" (transaction backout has no problem),
>>> function, cards (plastic cards is fine), account etc.
>>
>> Sounds like one of those "security" plugins for your web server,
>> perhaps mod_security.
>>
>> It's set in an overprotective mode that freaks out and denies access
>> when it sees bits of text coming through the form submission that it
>> thinks are indicative of an SQL or code injection attack.
>>
>> Contact your system administrator and let them know they've
>> misconfigured the software and should back it out to more reasonable
>> settings.
>>
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