Topic on Extension talk:Scribunto

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to solve this using error fixing advice I found elsewhere on this site, but it hasn't worked. I'm desperate at this point and really need help. I'm afraid I also know very little about all this, so please be patient with me.

What I'm trying to do is import Infoboxes from Wikipedia onto my own wiki. I followed the instructions under [1] and believe I've imported everything I need, but when I load e.g. [2], I get the following red error message:

"Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 126."

This is new actually. It had previously been "status 11" (I think), but after following the instructions I found at [3], the message changed to "status 126".

Please, please help me!! And thank you in advance! :)

[1] Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial

[2] Trying to avoid the spam filter here. My wiki is at "lacerta.palfreyman.de/wiki". There, search for "Template:Infobox".

[3] (Solved) Lua scribunto error on many pages (status 127)

Status 126 means that your Lua binary is not executable, according to bug T48135. To fix it, you need to change the permissions for the Lua binary. Probably running a command like this will work:

chmod +x path/to/lua

That bug report says that the message "The interpreter exited with status 126" was replaced with a more helpful error message, but on checking the code, it seems that the helpful error message is not output if you set the path to the Lua binary explicitly using the "luaPath" option.

i ran into this issue after migrating to an arm64/ARMv8 cluster (Linux.)

Scribunto does not ship with a compatible binary.

my deployments are containerized and k8s-managed, so I was able to fix this by layering a standalone Lua5.1 package on top of the official mediawiki container image (1.39) using apt, then updating wiki settings to point at the compatible image:

$wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['luaPath'] = '/usr/bin/lua5.1'

incidentally, I also purged the files which aren't necessary for my platform, to reduce the image size a bit, from

extensions/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/binaries/

pushed the container image and performed a rollout restart to the cluster and presto-chango! working as intended again! took all of 5 minutes :) hope this helps someone else someday!