[Mediawiki-l] error: "Unexpected character in input"

Tue Aug 24 03:25:55 UTC 2004

I'm having problems with a brand new installation of mediawiki (v 
1.3.1).  I'm getting the following error: 

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=1) state=1 in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=26) state=1 in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58*

*Parse error*: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in 
*/tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58

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Based on my research, it may be a MySQL-related issue, or a browser 
issue.  It seems obvious that the wrong characters are getting put into 
template files.  But, checking the database using phpMyAdmin to browse 
records, it 'seems like' I was the last one editing the site, so I'm 
puzzled to find there errors about 24 hours later.  I am using Mozilla 
1.6 (actually Mozilla Debian Package 1.6-5) on Debian, and may have also 
used Firefox 0.8 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) 
Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8).  I would guess that these browsers work 
correctly with wikimedia.

Is there some way to delete the tmp folder files to have the application 
regenerate the templates in cache?  This is hosted, so I can't just 
delete everything in /tmp

Thanks,

Greg