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I'm attempting to upgrade from 1.4.9 to 1.5rc4 to get around the PHP trouble
with passing variables.  

Starting in a clean directory and attempting to run the installer, I get:



MediaWiki is Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel
Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke and others.

    * Readme
    * Release notes
    * doc/
    * User's Guide

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the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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MediaWiki 1.5rc4 installation

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Checking environment...

    * PHP 5.0.5: ok
    * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
    * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
    * PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
    * No zlib support.
    * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object
caching functions
    * GNU diff3 not found.
    * Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
    * Installation directory: /usr/local/wiki
    * Script URI path: /wiki
    * PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL
4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
    * Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root...
          o MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
password: NO)
    * Trying regular user... ok.
    * Connected to 4.0.26-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements
    * Database wikidb exists
    * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates
are needed...

...hitcounter table already exists.
...querycache table already exists.
...objectcache table already exists.
...categorylinks table already exists.
...logging table already exists.
...validate table already exists.
...user_newtalk table already exists.
...transcache table already exists.
...trackbacks table already exists.
...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table.
...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table.
...have rc_type field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_id field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table.
...have user_real_name field in user table.
...have user_token field in user table.
...have user_email_token field in user table.
...have log_params field in logging table.
...have ar_rev_id field in archive table.
...have ar_text_id field in archive table.
...have page_len field in page table.
...have rev_deleted field in revision table.
...have img_width field in image table.
...have img_metadata field in image table.
...have img_media_type field in image table.
...have val_ip field in validate table.
...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table.
...have iw_trans field in interwiki table.
...already have interwiki table
...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
Already have pagelinks; skipping old links table updates.
...image primary key already set.
The watchlist table is already set up for email notification.
...user table does not contain old email authentication field.
Logging table has correct title encoding.
...page table already exists.
revision timestamp indexes already up to 2005-03-13
...rev_text_id already in place.
...page_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...ar_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...rc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...wl_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...qc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...log_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...already have pagelinks table.
No img_type field in image table; Good.
Already have unique user_name index.
...user_groups table already exists.
...user_groups is in current format.
Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
A database error has occurred
Query: SELECT old_text,old_flags  FROM `text`  WHERE old_id = '67'  LIMIT 1
Function: Revision::loadText
Error: 1146 Table 'wikidb.text' doesn't exist (localhost)

Backtrace:
GlobalFunctions.php line 451 calls wfBacktrace()
Database.php line 400 calls wfDebugDieBacktrace()
Database.php line 350 calls Database::reportQueryError()
Database.php line 726 calls Database::query()
Database.php line 745 calls Database::select()
Revision.php line 574 calls Database::selectRow()
Revision.php line 370 calls Revision::loadText()
InitialiseMessages.inc line 182 calls Revision::getText()
InitialiseMessages.inc line 72 calls initialiseMessagesReal()
updaters.inc line 670 calls initialiseMessages()
index.php line 592 calls do_all_updates()