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I have a MediaWiki installation that I keep updated to svn head with a nightly script. It was working great until a few days ago, when my skin suddenly became broken. The page renders how it would look if there was no skin at all. I tested with different computers and different browsers, and I tried switching skins (both user preferences and default skins) and nothing fixed it. I went through the subversion log looking for commit comments related to skins, and discovered that the rpoblem started at revision 74966. if I go back to revision 74965 my problem immediately clears up and the monobook skin renders as normal.

My mediawiki install is really simple. I don't have any customizations to speak of other than my rather plain LocalSettings.php

I have another Mediawiki install running on a different virtual host on the same server, and it is at svn head and running with no such problems, but I cannot figure out where the two installs are different in any meaningful way.

By the way, both sites (the problem one and the working one) are using PHP 5 FastCGI and the MySQL version 5.1.39

This post was posted by Bob the Hamster~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Bob the Hamster.

We're aware of this problem, as you could see at rev:74966, I've left a link to your report on that page.

Thanks! I should also note that the temp fix in r75006 did not resolve my problem.

This post was posted by Bob the Hamster~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Bob the Hamster.

I figured out how my working wiki was different from my non-working one. The working one was set up fairly recently, and had a pretty fresh LocalSettings.php but the non-working wiki had a very old LocalSettings.php which I have been upgrading from revision to revision for years. I re-configured and got all my setting sin a new LocalConfig.php and now I can upgrade beyond r74966 without skin problems. I am not sure exactly which part of my old LocalSettings.php was interacting badly with this revision, but I have saved a copy of my old file in case anybody cares enough about this problem to want to see it and try to figure out why.

This post was posted by Bob the Hamster~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Bob the Hamster.