Hi, I'm trying to install MediaWiki 1.7 on Debian Etch, I've done this before without a hitch but now I keep hitting the same error every time I try it. I've purged that and re-installed the package three times but still get exactly the same error.
A short context - the way MediaWiki is congigured initialy is to access http://localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php and fill in the form. I don't get any errors when I first display the form (the environment checks pass fine) but after filling it I get a page with progress report which looks like this: <quote> PHP 5.2.0-8+etch4 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Found GD graphics library built-in. Installation directory: /var/lib/mediawiki1.7 Script URI path: /mediawiki Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Generating configuration file... Database type: MySQL Loading class: DatabaseMysql Attempting to connect to database server as root...success. Connected to 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode Created database wikidb Creating tables... using MySQL 5 table defs... done. Initializing data... Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php on line 620 A database query syntax error has occurred. The last attempted database query was: "(SQL query hidden)" from within function "". MySQL returned error "0: " </quote> Looking at the database I see that the tables are created fine, though I don't see the wikiuser database user account (maybe it's supposed to be created later). I don't see any errors in the mysql server's logs. The line mentioned in the error looks like this: 618 function doQuery( $sql ) { 619 if( $this->bufferResults() ) { 620 $ret = mysql_query( $sql, $this->mConn ); 621 } else { 622 $ret = mysql_unbuffered_query( $sql, $this->mConn ); 623 } 624 return $ret; 625 } Googling around for this error, other text in the resulting page or generally about problems installing MediaWiki didn't find anything useful. Does anyone know what else can I do? Thanks, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
