Package: mediawiki1.7 Version: 1.7.1-4 Severity: normal
When trying to configure MediaWiki on my system via the web interface, I encountered the error "Attempting to connect to database server as root... failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords." After some investigation I found that it was in fact not caused by authentication errors (at least as far as I can tell), but it was failing to connect to the database because PHP5 was configured with sql.safe_mode turned on (configuration worked fine after turning this off). It seems like other errors than failure to authenticate due to erroneous login information can cause this message to be displayed (eg. a misconfigured PHP). I'm not a PHP programmer at all, but having browsed through the code for the configuration page, I believe the problem is that $errno values 1045 and 2000 are treated the same near line 686 in the file config/index.php. If I have read the online manuals correctly, error number 1045 indicates that access was denied, while number 2000 means "unknown error". Perhaps these two should generate different error messages, to make troubleshooting easier? I also had a look at the 1.9.3 version of the code, and the situation seems to be the same there, although I have not had time to verify that. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 depends on: ii apache2 2.2.3-3.2 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.3-3.2 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii php5 5.2.0-8 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php5-cli 5.2.0-8 command-line interpreter for the p ii php5-mysql 5.2.0-8 MySQL module for php5 Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 recommends: ii mysql-server 5.0.30-3 mysql database server (meta packag ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.30-3 mysql database server binaries -- debconf information: * mediawiki/webserver: apache2 mediawiki/upgrade-1d5: true mediawiki/upgrade-1d5-adminuser: root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
