Timwi (timwi(a)gmx.net) [050704 07:21]: This sounds just like the problem I was having with 1.4rc1 at home (FreeBSD 5.3, as per the meta page on FreeBSD) - 55,000 files created in /tmp ;-) No-one could come up with an answer for this either ... Some time in my copious free time I'll try doing it all from scratch :-) - d.

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: Thanks for your help, Tomasz. Here's some more info... * Thanks to brion's help with the parser cache, I am now getting message "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): 1+1=2" on the wiki page. * A .tex and .log file are created in the tmp directory, no other files seem to remain there. * The .tex file doesn't compile: latex complains that it can't find `article.cls'. Seeing that reminded me that I encountered a problem when installing tetex-bin. I apologise for not mentioning this earlier. "apt-get install tetex-bin" does a few things and then gets to this point: Running initex. This may take some time. ... Running updmap. This may take some time. ... and here it just hangs. It never finishes this. Every time I re-run this apt-get install, I have to interrupt this with Ctrl+C. When I do, it says this: updmap failed. Output stored in /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXxRWhxS That file is full of "file not found" error messages. I've attached the entire file below. Any more ideas? Thanks again for your patience with me. Timwi /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXxRWhxS follows: -------------------------------- using config file /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg using output directory /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config updmap is creating new map files using the following configuration: prefer outlines: true texhash enabled: true download standard fonts (dvips): false download standard fonts (pdftex): false download standard fonts (dvipdfm): false Scanning for LW35 support files updmap: map file `dvips35.map' not found. updmap: map file `pdftex35.map' not found. updmap: map file `dvipdfm35.map' not found. updmap: map file `ps2pk35.map' not found. Scanning for MixedMap entries: updmap: map file `bsr-interpolated.map' not found. updmap: map file `bsr.map' not found. updmap: map file `ccpl.map' not found. updmap: map file `cs.map' not found. updmap: map file `eurosym.map' not found. updmap: map file `hoekwater.map' not found. updmap: map file `pl.map' not found. updmap: map file `ttcmex.map' not found. Scanning for Map entries: updmap: map file `antp.map' not found. updmap: map file `antt.map' not found. updmap: map file `charter.map' not found. updmap: map file `cmcyr.map' not found. updmap: map file `context.map' not found. updmap: map file `lucidabr.map' not found. updmap: map file `lucidabr-o.map' not found. updmap: map file `lumath.map' not found. updmap: map file `lumath-o.map' not found. updmap: map file `marvosym.map' not found. updmap: map file `mathpi.map' not found. updmap: map file `mathpple.map' not found. updmap: map file `mt-plus.map' not found. updmap: map file `mt-yy.map' not found. updmap: map file `omega.map' not found. updmap: map file `pazo.map' not found. updmap: map file `pxfonts.map' not found. updmap: map file `qbk.map' not found. updmap: map file `qcr.map' not found. updmap: map file `qhv.map' not found. updmap: map file `qpl.map' not found. updmap: map file `qtm.map' not found. updmap: map file `qzc.map' not found. updmap: map file `txfonts.map' not found. updmap: map file `xypic.map' not found.

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: Thanks for all your help. At this point, however, I think I'm giving up. Thanks anyway, Timwi

Timwi wrote: Yes, it's on by default since 1.4. You should not generally disable the parser cache. Rather, as a site administrator it's your responsibility to ensure that your configuration is correct. If you've changed the software configuration in a basic way (such as enabling an extension which pages were already trying to use), then to clear cached parse pages you probably want to do one of the following: * Edit the affected pages. (Do a preview for a quick test.) * Use ?action=purge on the affected pages. * Set $wgCacheEpoch to the current timestamp to invalidate all previous cached renderings. * Run 'DELETE FROM objectcache' if using default table-based cache. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Brion Vibber wrote: Of course! I should have thought of that. :-) Thanks a lot, I'll remember this from now on. Timwi

Jitse Niesen wrote: All of the relevant directories exist and are writable. I know, I've done it before too, but everytime I try I run into a new problem. Timwi