Mailing List Archive: Error: Blocks not working!

On Apr 1, 2004, at 13:10, Dan Carlson wrote:
> Okay, so after deciding that I was reaching a bit too far, we've
> instituted several single-IP blocks to try to stop this anonymous
> problem user from making his constant edits. However, after we set
> the block with his latest IP address, he made several more edits!
> Something's wrong here...

Make this change to BlockCache.php:

function load()
{
global $wgUseMemCached, $wgMemc;
if ( $this->mData === false) {
$this->mData = array();
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Remove that last line! It breaks blocking on non-memcached
configurations. sigh...

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)