[Mediawiki-l] Converting links table to ID-ID... fails on Solaris - [reprise]

Thu Apr 21 04:38:15 UTC 2005

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com Mon Apr 18 20:58:21 UTC 2005 wrote:
> Please see the RELEASE-NOTES file, in the section about MySQL 4.1, 
> and try the suggestions on the linked pages.

Hi,

Since this was a brand-new install of mysql 4.1, I just removed it and
installed MySQL 4.0.24.  I then reconfigured and rebuilt php 5.0.4
with the previous library.

>Since your MySQL server doesn't have a password set on the local root
> account, the initial connection which tries this first succeeds. 

I did set the root password on the local root account for MySQL before
I ran the media wiki installation -- i.e., I can no longer connect to
any mysql utility as -u root without specifying -p and typing in the
password.

After I deleted the 4.1 mysql install, I recompiled php 5.0.4 to use
the 4.0 mysql library. I then run the media wiki install with the
*exact* same failure [see below].

So, is there another cause of this problem [Converting links table to
ID-ID...] or did I goof something up?

Does this have something to do with multiple MySQL servers running on
the same host as the WiKi?  I'm specifying the fqdn for the host + the
port for this new mysql server, i.e., myhost.example.com:3307 [it's
all internal to our WAN, not in a DMZ].

Thanks for the help and any other suggestions,
Jeff

---------------- begin output --------------------
MediaWiki 1.4.0 installation
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

Checking environment...
PHP 5.0.4: ok 
PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) 
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. 
PHP is configured with no memory_limit. 
No zlib support. 
Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions 
Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled. 
Installation directory: /opt/SUNWwbsvr/docs/wiki 
Script URI path: /wiki 
Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADMIN in
/opt/SUNWwbsvr/docs/wiki/config/index.php on line 338

Connected as root (automatic) 
Connected to database... 4.0.24-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements 
Database wikidb exists 
There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if
updates are needed...
Granting user permissions... 
...linkscc table already exists.
...hitcounter table already exists.
...querycache table already exists.
...objectcache table already exists.
...categorylinks table already exists.
...logging table already exists.
...user_rights 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 ur_user field in user_rights table.
...have log_params field in logging table.
...already have interwiki table
...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good.
Converting links table to ID-ID...
Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot contact the database server.