[Moin-user] Not able to create empty pages

[stephen at theboulets.net]

When I click on a new wiki word, I see the page with the message "This
page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page, or use one of
the page templates."

On this page there is a link "Action(edit,Create new empty page)", but
clicking on it doesn't give me the empty page. Any idea what could be
causing this? I have no issue editing existing pages.

I had recently upgraded my installation in going to Ubuntu 8.10 (which
uses python-moinmoin 1.7.1).

StephenB