[BALUG-Talk] Possible solution of blankness or editing outline-only on BALUG DokuWiki?

Thu Apr 22 01:20:39 UTC 2021

Okay, ... did find this in the logs (times UTC):
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:27.651966 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 4795] [client  
167.114.158.241:42814] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): write  
failed: No space left on device (28) in /usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php  
on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:27.652047 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 4795] [client  
167.114.158.241:42814] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): Failed to  
write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of  
session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/sessions) in  
/usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:45.259198 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 10903] [client  
167.114.158.241:52326] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): write  
failed: No space left on device (28) in /usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php  
on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:45.259247 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 10903] [client  
167.114.158.241:52326] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): Failed to  
write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of  
session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/sessions) in  
/usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:54.633838 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 19279] [client  
167.114.158.241:35742] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): write  
failed: No space left on device (28) in /usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php  
on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:40:54.634156 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 19279] [client  
167.114.158.241:35742] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): Failed to  
write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of  
session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/sessions) in  
/usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:41:25.000558 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 4794] [client  
167.114.158.241:54014] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): write  
failed: No space left on device (28) in /usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php  
on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:41:25.000634 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 4794] [client  
167.114.158.241:54014] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): Failed to  
write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of  
session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/sessions) in  
/usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php on line 117
[Wed Apr 21 07:41:48.000384 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 10902] [client  
167.114.158.241:36390] PHP Warning:  session_write_close(): write  
failed: No space left on device (28) in /usr/share/dokuwiki/doku.php  
on line 117

That may have done it.
Looks like I need to add more space to /var and/or clean some more stuff
off of it:
df -h /var
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/balug-var  4.9G  4.5G  190M  97% /var
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> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: Possible solution of blankness or editing outline-only  
> on BALUG DokuWiki?
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:02:27 -0700

> Thanks for the report, but I'm unable to reproduce the issue.
> Anyone else able to reproduce it?  Are you/anyone seeing the
> issue at this time?  Anyone else also see it earlier?
>
> I've tried the following on:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php
> without being able to reproduce the issue:
> Chromium
> Chromium incognito mode
> Firefox
> Firefox private browsing mode
> Lynx
> curl
> wget
> Chome on Android from another ISP
> Chrom icognito mode on Android from another ISP
>
> In each case I seem to get what would appear to be proper content and
> rendering thereof.
>
> I'll check the logs too, in case there may be relevant information/clues
> there.
>
> And there have been more recent unscheduled outages, generally
> fairly brief - typically from power interruption (laptop battery
> ain't what it used to be).
>
> $ hostname && uptime && date
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org
>  01:01:18 up 12 days,  3:54,  5 users,  load average: 0.41, 0.35, 0.27
> Thu Apr 22 01:01:18 UTC 2021
> $
>
>> From: aaronco36@sdf.org
>> Subject: Possible solution of blankness or editing outline-only on  
>> BALUG DokuWiki?
>> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 23:34:03 -0000
>
>> A blank window/page or editing outline currently appears when visiting the
>> BALUG DokuWiki at [1].
>>
>> According to a recent DokuWiki User Forum post 'Blank Page after Change
>> Template'[2], one can apparently "make an edit to conf/local.php".
>>
>> Someone know how to [properly!] edit that particular PHP file, assuming
>> that the blankness (or editing outline) on the BALUG DokuWiki happens to
>> be this situation?
>>
>> On the outside chance that it's somehow related to the above,
>> BALUG/SF-LUG/BerkeleyLUGs' last scheduled outage was apparently on Wed
>> 2020-07-22 8:15am-4:45pm PDT US/Pacific according to [3].
>>
>> -A
>>
>> ================================================================
>> REFERENCES
>> ================================================================
>> [1]https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php
>> [2]https://forum.dokuwiki.org/d/19095-blank-page-after-change-template
>> [3]https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2020-July/000216.html
>> ================================================================