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incinerator

Member

From: Edinburgh, Scotland

Registered: 2005-02-15

Posts: 80

wiki search not working

When trying to use the search function at http://wiki2.archlinux.org/ I get following error message:

lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Fatal[256]: dba_open(/home/judd/public_html/db/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,w): Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: Can't be writer

    * file: /home/judd/public_html/db/wiki_pagedb.gdbm
    * mode: w
    * handler: gdbm


lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Fatal[256]: dba_open(/home/judd/public_html/db/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,w): Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: Can't be writer

    * file: /home/judd/public_html/db/wiki_pagedb.gdbm
    * mode: w
    * handler: gdbm

I tried to search a couple of times but to no avail, I always fails.

Cheers,
Dominik

smith

Member

From: Crescent City, CA

Registered: 2005-02-19

Posts: 77

Re: wiki search not working

Just tried a few searches and it works for me.  I have received a similar error message in the past, but after repeating my search the error message was gone.  Give it another shot.

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cactus

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Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 4,622

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Re: wiki search not working

I just tried a search. It failed the first 3 times. Last time it worked.

gdbm is not really an optimal solution for a website, where you can have many concurrent users attempting to write at the same time. If one process gets a lock on writing, for instance, and somehow dies or hoses up, then everyone else must wait until that lock expires...Or until the lock is somehow released.

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incinerator

Member

From: Edinburgh, Scotland

Registered: 2005-02-15

Posts: 80

Re: wiki search not working

are you suggesting the wiki software is shite, then?

Dusty

Schwag Merchant

From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: wiki search not working

its propaganda, cactus is developing his own wiki software...

mind you he's right.

Dusty

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rasat

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From: Finland

Registered: 2002-12-27

Posts: 2,296

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Re: wiki search not working

Due to spamming the Wiki is configured in slow mode not allowing fast entries. This causes the error.
We are planning to change the Wiki system waiting for cactus's wiki (or another supporting user login, categories and php 5).

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Markku

incinerator

Member

From: Edinburgh, Scotland

Registered: 2005-02-15

Posts: 80

Re: wiki search not working

Thx, that's exactly what I wanted to hear :-)

Due to spamming the Wiki is configured in slow mode not allowing fast entries. This causes the error.
We are planning to change the Wiki system waiting for cactus's wiki (or another supporting user login, categories and php 5).