Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:51 UTC
(Note: In the Component selection of the bug filing form, there's no "Upgrading" section, so I chose "Installation". Also, 1.6.6 is not yet listed in the Version selection.) I tried to upgrade from MediaWiki 1.6.5 to 1.6.6 but in the end had to go back to 1.6.5 because after upgrading, my MediaWiki namespace (within which I had modified most of the system messages in order to customize the text of my Wiki) had totally reverted back to the defaults. The first upgrade attempt involved using the update.php script in the maintenance directory. In the second attempt (after I had gone back to 1.6.5), I deleted LocalSettings.php and re-run the web installer. There was no difference whatsoever. * MediaWiki: 1.6.5 (the bug itself seems to be in 1.6.6, though) * PHP: 4.4.2 (apache) * MySQL: 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge1 * Wiki language: German On the developer's IRC channel, I learned that this behaviour of the update script isn't normal, which matches my previous experience (I upgraded from 1.6.3 to 1.6.5 only weeks ago, and the MediaWiki namespace was left untouched by the process). Thanks for your help! -Manuel
Unable to reproduce upgrading from 1.6.3 to 1.6.6 with update.php. Can you please provide some more detailed examples, such as a list of message pages which were reverted, exactly how they changed, and what appears in the history for them?
Perhaps the bug only occurs when upgrading from 1.6.5 to 1.6.6, as I've described above, not 1.6.3 to 1.6.6? Anyway, have a look at http://www.manuel-charisius.de/valarea/index.php/Spezial:Allmessages You can see the system messages I changed. Grey = no change was made Red = message as provided in the language files Green = my new version, created by editing this specific message, e. g. http://www.manuel-charisius.de/valarea/index.php/MediaWiki:1movedto2 After upgrading to 1.6.6, all these changes were lost. The Special:Allmessages (or Spezial:Allmessages in wikis with the language set to German) page looked as though I had freshly installed a MediaWiki 1.6.6 - everything was grey again. I noticed this at all because the sidebar had reverted to the default after I had upgraded (showing again the "donate" link, for example). As the sidebar is part of the "Allmessages", my changes made there "Autoren-Website", "Weblog", "Impressum", etc.) were gone. I then checked the "Allmessages" and, after realising my changes were gone, deduced that it had been the whole MediaWiki namespace (nothing more, nothing less) that had been reset.
Did you: 1) Check the content message pages to confirm that things were missing or overwritten? 2) Try clearing the objectcache table (or memcached etc if using those) to regenerate the message cache? I can see at the URL you provide that the message page exists as edited by you on April 30, so it doesn't appear to have been overwritten.
Well, as I said, I went back to 1.6.5 (meaning: I restored the pages and the database to its state prior to today's upgrade attempts). So what you now see is completely unaffected by the problem. 1) No. I put my trust in the "Allmessages" overview. But the navigation bar was confirmation enough, since my own links were gone and replaced by the default ones. 2) No. I'm not using memcache. But I might try clearing the objectcache table. BTW, I just tried to reproduce the bug on a virtual webserver (XAMPP 1.5.1 Linux with PHP 4.4.1 and MySQL 5.0.18) and failed. If nothing else works, I might just try and copy the local database to the Debian system as a workaround ...
Both items in 1) would have come from the message cache. Please check the actual page contents and edit history.
Hi Brion, I just tried again today - and now, everything seems to work fine. No idea what went wrong yesterday. ;-( Anyway, thanks a lot for your help. You might mark this bug as invalid now (unless anybody else starts to complain, which I hope not, of course. ;-) -Manuel
Me again. I think I know what happened, and for developers as well as other users it may be worth noting: After upgrading from my initial installation (1.6.3) to 1.6.5, I ran the following two maintenance scripts: php deleteOldRevisions.php and php rebuildrecentchanges.php in order to clear out the huge revision history that had accumulated not only in the MediaWiki namespace, but within normal articles as well. Now here's the crucial point: Up to the moment I upgraded to 1.6.6, I made no more changes to the MediaWiki namespace / system messages! So when I upgraded, the update script had to assume I hadn't changed the MW namespace at all, and therefore re-initialised it. Last night, however, after I had restored my backed-up files and database and thus gone back to 1.6.5, I made a few small changes to the MediaWiki namespace. And when I upgraded today - voilà: everything worked. :) So the question whether this is a bug or not is not easily answered. As a temporary workaround, I strongly encourage users who've changed a lot in the MW namespace and cleared their revision history to change at least one small thing in the MW namespace BEFORE upgrading. Hope this helps, and thank you, Brion, for your support. -Manuel
