Hi,
Thanks for your answer!
The current revision ID for the Main Page listed in the page table is
555 (field page_latest). This is also the highest value of the field
rev_id for that page in the revision table.
Any other possible sources for the error?
Best,
Sebastian
Am 08.08.15 um 14:00 schrieb mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
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John
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list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Cannot
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Does the revision table have a
row for the current revision ID listed in the page table? On Fri, Aug 7,
2015 at 8:51 AM, Sebastian Sulger < sebastian.sulger(a)uni-konstanz.de>
wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Hoping that someone can help.
> >
> >I have recently restored two wikis from a backup after a harddisk failure.
> >The wikis make use of a single MySQL database, each of them using prefixed
> >tables. One of the wikis is running just fine after the restore; the other
> >one is not.
> >
> >The issue is that all of the content on the malfunctioning wiki's main
> >page is gone; the page just displays the sample text "There is currently no
> >text in this page. You can search ..." Even worse, I cannot edit the
wiki's
> >main page: clicking the edit button when registered brings up the message
> >"No such section --- You tried to edit a section that does not exist. Since
> >there is no section , there is no place to save your edit."
> >
> >What's also confusing is that all of the other pages seem to be fine; I
> >can search for pages, and clicking on "Random page" does what it's
supposed
> >to do. I can also edit all other pages except for the main page.
> >
> >Has anyone come across anything remotely similar?
> >
> >I am pretty sure it has to be an error within the database. If I export an
> >XML dump of all the pages, the main page is not among the pages in the XML.
> >However, the page table contains an entry for the main page. How can I test
> >the validity of that entry?
> >
> >Best,
> >Sebastian
> >
> >Version information:
> >
> >MediaWiki: 1.14.0
> >
> >PHP: 5.2.11
> >
> >MySQL: 5.1.37
> >Reply a day ago
> >134.34.80.80 (talkcontribs)
> >
> >
> >--
> >Sebastian Sulger
> >FB Sprachwissenschaft
> >Universität Konstanz
> >http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger
> >
> >
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Sebastian Sulger
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Universität Konstanz
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger