[MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki MySQL user-related database [dead]locks?

2016-09-14 Thread Andrew Smith
Hello I administer a relatively busy wiki for our school, at https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca In august I migrated the wiki from an older server where it had as far as I can tell 1.15.4 on. The new server had the latest mediawiki verison available, as far as I can tell now 1.27 The datab

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki MySQL user-related database [dead]locks?

2016-09-14 Thread Andrew Smith
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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki MySQL user-related database [dead]locks?

2016-09-15 Thread Andrew Smith
On 15/09/16 07:08, Brian Wolff wrote: I don't know much about DB locking, so the following might be stupid and wrong: I was under the impression that mysql would add a line like "--- TRX HAS BEEN WAITING 4 SEC FOR THIS LOCK TO BE GRANTED:" if the transaction is actually waiting for a lock. S

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki MySQL user-related database [dead]locks?

2016-09-17 Thread Andrew Smith
On 15/09/16 10:14, Andrew Smith wrote: On 15/09/16 07:08, Brian Wolff wrote: locks). So maybe something is wrong on the php side. Thus I'd also check the php error log, and maybe try enabling the MediaWiki debug log and check that. Thanks Brian. Your suggestion to turn on the MediaWiki