Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken wiki vandalized yet again

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

> (b) Why doesn't the edit box's content match what's actually visible
> on the front page (as I see no mention of viagra on the front
> page...).

This sometimes happens because of a difficult to reproduce error that
sometimes leaves the copy of the Subversion repository that Svnwiki
checks out and uses in a “broken” state.  The files Subversion uses
(in the .svn directories) become corrupted and calls to Subversion's
libsvn_client library fail from that point on (why this happens I
don't know; it could be that the Apache process was restarted while
one of the Subversion operations was in progress and the operation
will just fail and leave the directory broken?).  So svnwiki fails to
update that copy of the repository to the latest versions from that
point on.  That's why the content doesn't match (the svnwiki CGI
application uses whatever it finds in the corrupted directory).

To fix it an admin simply needs to erase the corrupted directory (and
the next time svnwiki needs it it will just check it out afresh).

I thought this had been already fixed but it seems not.  I'll look
into it (it should be easy to have svnwiki detect that the checked out
copy is, for one reason or other, not working and erase it itself in
that situation).  In the meantime, if it happens again, please let
Mario or me know and we will just remove the directory.

Thanks!

Alejo.
http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/