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@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Joey, please see RecentChanges and note that this is my second bug report,
 because the first was unsuccessfully (bad characters in post title?).
 Could you please tidy it up?
 
+> I've fixed that and the bug that caused the dup.
+
+>> Thanks a lot! :)
+
 I've just upgraded my ikiwiki from version 2.11 to the latest version 2.15.
 I use my own rebuilt ikiwiki package for Ubuntu Gutsy box. Now I can't rebuild
 all my ikiwiki pages, because of the following bug:
@@ -21,3 +25,60 @@ I've read ikiwiki changelog for the previous releases and unfortunately
 I can't see any related entries. Any ideas?
 
 --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+> **Update**: I've came back to ikiwiki 2.11 and... the bug still exists!
+> Probably the reason is that I've removed all content of `/var/www/blog/`
+> before mass rebuilding. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+> I can't reproduce this bug with a setup file that tells ikiwiki to
+> write to /var/www/blog, which doesn't exist. I get a "Permission denied"
+> since I can't write to /var/www. If I make the permissions allow me to
+> write to /var/www, it happily creates the blog subdirectory. If the blog
+> subdirectory is already there and I can write to it, that of course also
+> works.
+> 
+> I'll need enough information to reproduce the problem before I can fix
+> it. Probably a copy of your setup file, wiki source, and information
+> about how your /var/www is set up. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for your efforts, Joey! I sent my `ikiwiki.setup` file to you.
+>> What source do you need? Entire my ikiwiki or only some pages?
+>>
+>> There are settings of `/var/www/` directory on my Ubuntu Gutsy box:
+>>
+>>        ptecza@anahaim:~$ ls -al /var/www/
+>>        total 16
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:25 .
+>>        drwxr-xr-x 14 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:13 ..
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:13 apache2-default
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  5 ptecza ptecza 4096 2007-12-17 16:54 blog
+>>
+>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+>> I need a set of files that you know I can use to reproduce the bug.
+>> --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> OK, I've just sent you the URL where you can find all files you need :)
+>>>
+>>> Probably I know how to reproduce the bug. You have to erase all files from
+>>> `/var/www/blog` before mass rebuilding. This is my `mass-rebuild.sh` script:
+>>>
+>>>        #!/bin/bash
+>>>        
+>>>        rm -rf /var/www/blog/*
+>>>        ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup --getctime --verbose
+>>>
+>>> I noticed that the bug was "resolved" when I added to my blog new entry
+>>> and commited the changes. Before I created all directories and touched
+>>> empty `*.html` files in `/var/www/blog` directory. Probably it's not
+>>> necessary, because without a new blog revision the bug still existed
+>>> and `ikiwiki` still failed.
+>>>
+>>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+>> I'd forgotten about [this perl bug](http://bugs.debian.org/411786).
+>> All I can do is work around it by disabling the taint checking. :-(
+>> (Which I've [[done]].) --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Ubuntu Gutsy also has Perl 5.8.8-7, so probably it has the bug too.
+>>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]