Does the revision table have a row for the current revision ID listed in the page table?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Sebastian Sulger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Hoping that someone can help. > > I have recently restored two wikis from a backup after a harddisk failure. > The wikis make use of a single MySQL database, each of them using prefixed > tables. One of the wikis is running just fine after the restore; the other > one is not. > > The issue is that all of the content on the malfunctioning wiki's main > page is gone; the page just displays the sample text "There is currently no > text in this page. You can search ..." Even worse, I cannot edit the wiki's > main page: clicking the edit button when registered brings up the message > "No such section --- You tried to edit a section that does not exist. Since > there is no section , there is no place to save your edit." > > What's also confusing is that all of the other pages seem to be fine; I > can search for pages, and clicking on "Random page" does what it's supposed > to do. I can also edit all other pages except for the main page. > > Has anyone come across anything remotely similar? > > I am pretty sure it has to be an error within the database. If I export an > XML dump of all the pages, the main page is not among the pages in the XML. > However, the page table contains an entry for the main page. How can I test > the validity of that entry? > > Best, > Sebastian > > Version information: > > MediaWiki: 1.14.0 > > PHP: 5.2.11 > > MySQL: 5.1.37 > Reply a day ago > 134.34.80.80 (talkcontribs) > > > -- > Sebastian Sulger > FB Sprachwissenschaft > Universität Konstanz > http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
