Chris Moules, 2011-12-20 17:39+0100: > Recently finding this issue after updating part of the wiki I started looking > for similar cases. I found this on the dokuwiki > bug tracker: > > http://bugs.dokuwiki.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=2319 > > This seemed to point to an old, unrelated, Debian bug, but the report was > form this year. It looked to, at least in part, mirror > my issue.
In fact it is has a completely different cause, only the effect is the same: in your case, missing conffiles, in the other case, an undefined function. > Following up on this I did a little digging in the source and found the > reference to the configuration file that > seemed to be missing. I performed a non-clean 'reinstall' via a 'dpkg -i > dokuwiki_0.0.20110525a-2_all.deb' and this also did not > prompt or replace the conf files. Installing the package manually is not unclean by itself. Something went wrong but not due to that. > As the upgrade was not that long ago, plus the dokuwiki bug report, I assumed > this to be a packaging bug. Well, perhaps it is, or worse, perhaps it is due to an old packaging bug that has been resolved but had some long-term effect on your installation. If it is really the case, we might have a change to identify it in order to work around it. > This server has also had '/etc/' restored due to some config file damage. > That was prior to this upgrade. It is possible that > the dokuwiki config files were affected by this and therefore the update > problems. I will need to check on that. That sounds like a possible cause indeed, I hope that you will be able to check it (and I secretely hope that it is really the cause of your problem ;-) ). > Sorry if this was just noise, I just found and fixed this porblem today and > so I wanted to 'document' it too before it got > forgotten. Do not be sorry: in doubt, problems should be reported, so this is fine. -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar> | `-' Debian Maintainer \_
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