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Erratic corrupted diff (repeated lines, etc.)
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Author: marti

Description:
Wikipedia is occasionally (very rarely?) showing diffs that are inconsistent
with the article content. Upon purging the diff cache, everything looks OK
again. Unfortunately, the cache of this incident has been purged already, so it
cannot be reproduced any more.

Screenshot at the time of my particular incident:
http://juffo.org/stuff/mediawiki-wtf.png

Discussion on #wikimedia-tech, confirming other people also seeing this, and
suggesting that it's not an isolated incident:

[08 21:24'31] <intgr> WTF, see this edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RTT&diff=prev&oldid=121266608
[08 21:24'52] <intgr> It appears as if the person added three links to the
article, but the preview only shows one at the end.
[08 21:27'41] <intgr> Can anyone confirm that it doesn't just appear that way to me?
[08 21:27'41] <Duesentrieb> intgr: that's... scarry.
[08 21:28'37] <Duesentrieb> domas: yea, right
[08 21:28'54] <Duesentrieb> intgr: yes, me.
[08 21:28'55] <Splarka> intgr: that does look like a funky diff
[08 21:29'08] <Duesentrieb> domas: look at intgr's diff link
[08 21:29'48] <domas> whats in it?
[08 21:29'57] <Simetrical> domas: Diff doesn't match the resultant text.
[08 21:30'04] <Duesentrieb> domas: the diff shows bogus changes
[08 21:30'11] <domas> hehe
[08 21:30'13] <domas> interesting
[08 21:32'30] <Splarka> another funky diff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghostface_Killah&diff=prev&oldid=120004683
(reported in
VP/T April 6th)
[08 21:32'39] <domas> refresh
[08 21:32'52] <domas> hehe
[08 21:33'13] <domas> 'unknown exception'
[08 21:33'24] <domas> ok, I guess I destroyed traces of previous diff corruption
[08 21:33'43] <Splarka> and another one from 3 days ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Really_confusing
[08 21:34'34] <Splarka> (but that one seems fix-ed now)
[08 21:34'39] <Duesentrieb> domas: tnx for fixing it
[08 21:34'50] <domas> its not fixing
[08 21:34'52] <intgr> Sounds like duct tape.
[08 21:34'54] <domas> I just purged the diff cache
[08 21:35'09] <Duesentrieb> domas: well, as long as the funky stuff doesn't get
in there again...
[08 21:35'22] <intgr> Well, it'll happen again sooner or later.
[08 21:35'28] <Splarka> the quicker differ cacher purger

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Linux
Platform: PC

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Reference
bz9533

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:42 PM
• bzimport added a project: wikidiff2.
• bzimport set Reference to bz9533.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Apr 8 2007, 9:56 PM
• brooke added a comment.Apr 9 2007, 7:28 PM

Could be a bug or inconsistency in the wikidiff2 extension...

All live Apaches seem to have consistent copies (all 32-bit same, all 64-bit
same, and all same date).

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 1 2007, 6:03 AM

marti wrote:

Another instance of this bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Boothy443&diff=prev&oldid=134912276
If you try to "undo" it, the change turns out to be completely different: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Boothy443&curid=8879613&diff=134936206&oldid=134912276

I took screenshots of this just in case someone resets the diff cache again: http://juffo.org/stuff/wikibug_diff1.png http://juffo.org/stuff/wikibug_diff2.png

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 22 2007, 11:38 PM

robchur wrote:

As of r24326, users can use "action=purge" on a difference page to force the cache to be skipped and regenerated (if applicable) for that request.

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 16 2007, 12:44 PM

robchur wrote:

*** Bug 11352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• bzimport added a comment.Dec 16 2007, 9:05 PM

ayg wrote:

*** Bug 9901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

tstarling added a comment.Feb 26 2008, 4:47 AM
  • Bug 13129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
tstarling added a comment.Feb 26 2008, 4:53 AM

Changing component to wikidiff2, there's really no other explanation.

• brooke added a comment.Apr 11 2008, 8:43 PM
  • Bug 13704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• brooke added a comment.Apr 11 2008, 8:44 PM
  • Bug 13575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• bzimport added a comment.Apr 21 2008, 9:25 AM

low.sea wrote:

Looks like I have seen this bug too and reported it as a comment under Bug 10511 where other folks are also reporting it. Then I noticed Bug 9112 and if that description is accurate then there may be a very serious problem.

• brooke added a comment.Apr 26 2008, 11:24 PM
  • Bug 13851 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• brooke added a comment.Apr 26 2008, 11:25 PM

Have hopefully resolved this with fresh recompile.

Once we got some logging in, the buggy output seemed to be limited to Fedora Core 4 machines; on the assumption that an FC3-compiled binary (which worked on FC3 machines) was misbehaving on FC4, I recompiled on FC4 and haven't had any logged failures since.

• brooke added a comment.Apr 26 2008, 11:27 PM
  • Bug 10000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• brooke added a comment.Apr 26 2008, 11:53 PM
  • Bug 2305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• brooke added a comment.Apr 27 2008, 12:18 AM
  • Bug 10511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• mmodell added a commit: rPHDEP81dc55d04fec: Updated git submodules.Sep 7 2016, 10:17 PM
• mmodell removed a commit: rPHDEP81dc55d04fec: Updated git submodules.Sep 7 2016, 11:19 PM
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