+> 1. A permissions problem with the templatedir that prevents ikiwiki from
+> accessing it. If it can't access it, it silently falls back to using
+> templates from the default directory.
+> 2. A templatedir that doesn't have an absolute path. In this case ikiwiki
+> will look relative to *somewhere*, which will sometimes work and
+> sometimes not. Clearly not a good idea.
+>
+> So far that's the only ways that I can see that this could happen.
+> It would be possible to make ikiwiki try to detect these sorts of
+> problems; it could check if the templatedir exists, and check that it's
+> readable. This would add some extra system calls to every ikiwiki run,
+> and I'm not convinced it's worth it. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Closing this bug since I never heard back that it was not one
+>> of the above two problems, and I consider both problems local
+>> configuration errors. --[[Joey]] [[done]]