Thanks Mark - it's a case of the cobbler's children going round barefoot - the number of times I've chanted "permissions, permissions, permissions" to various people (including myself), I should have guessed - some of the dirs below images had the wrong permissions and I didn't see that in the truss as it would have been a MySQL process that hit the access error.
Cheers, /Sam Sam Sexton Provisioning Team Leader Thomson Reuters Phone: 53372 or +44 24 7625 6562 Mobile: +44 7990 563739 [email protected] thomsonreuters.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark (Markie) Sent: 08 June 2009 16:33 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with importImages.php have you checked your file permissions? regards mark On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm - I sent this ti the list on the 3rd, but didn't get a reply - > hardly surprising, as I now can't see it in the archive! Trying again > ... > > Hi - I have recently migrated our wiki to a new host and version > (1.13.0). That is working fine, but I wanted to reimport all the > images into my dev system as that will act as a backup system as well. > However, although the majority of images are imported correctly, some > are just reported as "failed". I have tried uploading one of these > manually and it worked fine. The image didn't exist in the image dir > and wasn't shown in the image db table prior to the manual upload. > > The only clue I have found was in a truss of the import: > > 6203: write(5, "07\0\0\003 C O M M I T", 11) = 11 > 6203: read(5, "07\0\001\0\0\002\0\0\0", 16384) = 11 > 6203: time() = 1243847745 > 6203: resolvepath("/home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php", > "/home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php", 10 > 24) = 48 > 6203: open("/home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php", > O_RDONLY) = 6 > 6203: fstat(6, 0x01219180) = 0 > 6203: d=0x05240459 i=1527070 m=0100644 l=1 u=324 g=666 sz=3337 > 6203: at = Jun 1 07:57:37 GMT 2009 [ 1243843057 ] > 6203: mt = Nov 21 15:46:40 GMT 2008 [ 1227282400 ] > 6203: ct = Mar 6 15:42:59 GMT 2009 [ 1236354179 ] > 6203: bsz=8192 blks=8 fs=nfs > 6203: read(6, " < ? p h p\n / * *\n *".., 8192) = 3337 > 6203: read(6, 0x015DD8B8, 8192) = 0 > 6203: read(6, 0x015DD8B8, 8192) = 0 > 6203: close(6) = 0 > 6203: write(1, " f a i l e d .\n", 8) = 8 > > so this could be a database issue, but I'm not sure where to go next ... > any clues would be appreciated. > > /Sam > > > Sam Sexton > Provisioning Team Leader > > > Thomson Reuters > > Phone: 53372 or +44 24 7625 6562 > Mobile: +44 7990 563739 > > > [email protected] > thomsonreuters.com > > > > > > This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and > information company. > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the > views of Thomson Reuters. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
