Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:04 UTC
I installed MW 1.7.1 on top of Fedora Core 5 Linux several weeks ago. It's been working fine, I've been updating pages, etc. Today, from my Windows XP machine, I visited Special:Specialpages a few times, editing other pages in between, and then, suddenly, when I visit Special:Specialpages, it is empty -- no list of special pages! Yikes! I was logged in with a normal account, not a WikiSysop account. This is all occuring inside my corporate LAN, and we have proprietary information, so I cannot give you access to the server. I searched and could find no similar bug. Is there some kind of tweak I can apply to fix this problem? Thank you! --Ben Slivka
Never heard of such a problem; you'll have to debug it yourself. Check for broken extensions.
Brion, Ummm...I wasn't doing anything on the Linux box at all...just doing normal Wiki editing from IE 6 on a Windows XP workstation...and the Specialpages contents just disappeared. This would seem to be a pretty nasty failing of the MediaWiki PHP code, eh? How would such activity on a client machine cause a "broken extension"? Pardon my ignorance, but while I've done tons of MS-DOS/Windows development, I'm much less familiar with Linux debugging. What debugger should I use for PHP? Thank you, --Ben
1. What changed on the server? 2. Define "empty" - is there no content in the content area of the page? Do no pages get listed? Or does the server seem to be returning a totally blank page? 3. What does the PHP error log have to say about it?
No answer/reaction since 3 months. If the problem still persists feel free to reopen the bug with more information as Rob asked in comment #3.
