On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Joel W. Garman wrote:

Instiki-users <[email protected]> writes:

I don't understand what reinstalling the application achieves.

What files have been modified since the last installation?
The obvious ones are "secret", the contents of the "cache/views/"
directory, and perhaps the contents of the "webs/" directory (if there
are uploaded files). Everything else should be completely unaltered.

What does reinstallation achieve, that (say) clearing the cache would
not?

True, these are the only files that have been modified (well, and the log file). In my ignorance that was the only way I knew of to recover from the problem. Next time the error occurs, should I simply delete the cache files and restart the application to see if this corrects the problem? If
it is a poisoned cache problem what might be causing this issue?

I wouldn't think that a bad cache file (or two) would make every single page on your wiki unreadable. On the other hand, removing cache/ views/* is harmless. Similarly, deleting or moving the "log/*" files should be harmless.

It would seem important to track down what, exactly, is getting corrupted, and preventing you from just relaunching the application.

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