New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Installation Error: Initialising "MediaWiki" Namespace...

30 May 2006

Hello, I've looked in handbook and I've googled about and have not been
able to find out what I can do to finish installing version 1.6.6. (with
PHP-5.0.4, MySQL-4.1.12, and Apache-2.0.52 ).

When running through the initial configuration page
(localhost/wiki/config/index.php), it proceeds alright until it gets to
"Initialising "MediaWiki" Namespace..." whereupon it provides:
    (dbname) has a problem

    Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

    Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

    (Can't contact the database server: Unknown error (localhost))

Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction to address my problem.

Thanks,

Danny

System:
     Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.12-12mdk #1 i686 AMD Sempron(tm)
Processor 3500+ unknown GNU/Linux

=============  OUTPUT   from  /config/index.php  ==============
MediaWiki 1.6.6 Installation

    * Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic
release announcements mailing list.

Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

    * PHP 5.0.4 installed
    * 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 32M. If this is too low, installation may
fail! * Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
    * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator 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.
    * Installation directory: /var/www/html/wiki
    * Script URI path: /wiki
    * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

      Generating configuration file...
    * Database type: mysql
    * Attempting to connect to database server as root...success.
    * Connected to 4.1.12
    * Database wikipizza exists
    * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if
updates are needed...
    * Granting user permissions...

...hitcounter table already exists.
...querycache table already exists.
...objectcache table already exists.
...categorylinks table already exists.
...logging table already exists.
...validate table already exists.
...user_newtalk table already exists.
...transcache table already exists.
...trackbacks table already exists.
...externallinks table already exists.
...job table already exists.
...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table.
...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table.
...have rc_type field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_id field in recentchanges table.
...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table.
...have user_real_name field in user table.
...have user_token field in user table.
...have user_email_token field in user table.
...have user_registration field in user table.
...have log_params field in logging table.
...have ar_rev_id field in archive table.
...have ar_text_id field in archive table.
...have page_len field in page table.
...have rev_deleted field in revision table.
...have img_width field in image table.
...have img_metadata field in image table.
...have img_media_type field in image table.
...have val_ip field in validate table.
...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table.
...have iw_trans field in interwiki table.
...have ipb_range_start field in ipblocks table.
...have ss_images field in site_stats table.
...already have interwiki table
...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
Already have pagelinks; skipping old links table updates.
...image primary key already set.
The watchlist table is already set up for email notification.
...watchlist talk page rows already present
...user table does not contain old email authentication field.
Logging table has correct title encoding.
...page table already exists.
revision timestamp indexes already up to 2005-03-13
...rev_text_id already in place.
...page_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...ar_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...rc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...wl_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...qc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...log_namespace is already a full int (int(11)).
...already have pagelinks table.
...templatelinks table already exists
No img_type field in image table; Good.
Already have unique user_name index.
...user_groups table already exists.
...user_groups is in current format.
...wl_notificationtimestamp is already nullable.
...timestamp key on logging already exists.
Setting page_random to a random value on rows where it equals 0...changed
0 rows
Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
      Pizza has a problem

      Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

      Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

      (Can't contact the database server: Unknown error (localhost))