Re: [Phpwiki-talk] persistent wiki virginity

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

> On the first and any thereafter loading of the wiki, I get the  
> "Loading up virgin wiki" screen, only it stops at OldStyleTablePlugin.. 
> it goes alphabetically from A through most of O and just stops there.

Does it always stop in exactly the same spot?

The only time I've seen similar behavior is when safe_mode is on,
so that the PHP execution timeout can't be reset.  Then the load
times-out.   In that case though, repeated attempts at de-virginizing
usually succeed eventually, since on subsequent attempts, pages
which have already been loaded get skipped...

Any messages in the (apache) error_log?

> I'm assuming that it's attempting this every time because it's not 
> finding some of the important pages (RecentChanges and whatnot).

HomePage is the "magic" page.  And PhpWiki now takes extra care to
make sure that it is loaded last.

> Has anyone seen this before or do any of you have any ideas for how to 
> resolve this?

If it's not a safe_mode/timeout issue, then my next guess is that
either OldStyleTablePlugin or the page after that is triggering
a PHP segfault/crap-out of some kind.  If that's the case, the only
way I know of to start figuring out where exactly the problem is,
is to start adding print/echo (and flush) statements in the program
flow to figure out just exactly where things are crapping out.