As I wanted to start with my studies revisions on M362 today, I realized that I couldn’t access my mediawiki-environment with all my notes any more!
The error message was something about a missing “includes/parser.php” file (“no such file or directory”).
When I googled for this, I stumbled upon a corresponding Gentoo bug – apparently, the mediawiki-package is broken. I have to admit, I begin to dislike Gentoo more and more for things like this – it seems that the distribution has lost quite a deal of package maintainers… while I am usually ok with the server packages (this is the first time this happens with a package on the server), I am struggling in maintaining a smooth client environment – which is why I decided to switch my Linux client over to Ubuntu. More on this to come soon…
Anyway, back to the mediawiki-problem. Digging into the stuff, I manually extracted the tar-ball (it’s in /usr/portage/distfiles/mediawiki-1.3.0.tar.gz). It seems that the following directories are completely missing when installing the package:
- includes/db/
- includes/parser
- includes/specials
I manually copied them into my mediawiki-installation. After that, I had to run the upgrade.php (see mediawiki upgrade instructions) script by issueing
cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/maintenance
php upgrade.php
After this, my installation runs fine, again; to be blunt, everything else would have been a disaster, to be honest… as all my study-notes are still in the wiki-environment…
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