19 April 2017, 9:00

Mahara version 16.10.2 (2016090213)

Running it on MAMP Version 3.4 (3.4) running PHP Version 5.6.10

As per instructions in other parts of the forum, I added the bits on the end of the config file to show errors. So it shows all the stuff at the top when it is doing things, but no actual ERROR actually shows up there, it just stops.

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This is what my installation page stalls at:

[INF] a7 (admin/upgrade.php:49) Starting Mahara installation...
[INF] e5 (lib/upgrade.php:1358) Enabled 2 HTML filters.
[INF] e5 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - core 16.10.2 (2016090213)
[INF] cb (admin/upgrade.json.php:48) - firstcoredata
[INF] 97 (admin/upgrade.json.php:48) - localpreinst
[INF] 32 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.blog 1.2.0 (2015082600)
[INF] 58 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.plans 0.0.1 (2010072302)
[INF] a2 (artefact/file/lib.php:242) Synced filetype list with filetypes.xml
[INF] a2 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.file 1.2.7 (2016082901)
[INF] 68 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.internal 1.3.0 (2014092500)
[INF] a6 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.annotation 1.0.0 (2014122100)
[INF] 74 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.comment 1.0.1 (2016051000)
[INF] c4 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - artefact.resume 1.0.2 (2013072900)
[INF] 66 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.internal 1.0.0 (2008012400)
[INF] 82 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.webservice 2.0.1 (2016101100)
[INF] 9a (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.none 1.0.0 (2008040200)
[INF] 99 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.xmlrpc 1.0.0 (2008040200)
[INF] 4a (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.browserid 0.0.0 (2016092600)
[INF] 28 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.imap 1.2.0 (2015111600)
[INF] 32 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.ldap 1.1.0 (2013051600)
[INF] 23 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - auth.saml 1.2.0 (2016062900)
[INF] 09 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - notification.emaildigest 1.0.1 (2009012700)
[INF] 0e (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - notification.email 1.0.0 (2008040200)
[INF] 6a (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - notification.internal 1.0.3 (2012021000)
[INF] 75 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - search.internal 1.0.0 (2008040200)
[INF] 9f (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - search.elasticsearch 1.0.4 (2015100800)
[INF] 6b (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - module.multirecipientnotification 1.0.2 (2015070500)
[DBG] 2c (module/framework/lib.php:43) Add a foreign key on collection.framework to framework.id
[INF] 2c (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - module.framework 1.0.3 (2016101400)
[INF] d7 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - module.mobileapi 1.0.0 (2016092104)
[INF] 30 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/folder 1.0.2 (2013120901)
[INF] 32 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.blog/blog 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] db (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.resume/resumefield 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] 3c (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/filedownload 1.0.1 (2010090801)
[INF] 03 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.blog/blogpost 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] 53 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.comment/comment 1.0.1 (2013100101)
[INF] a6 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.blog/recentposts 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] 59 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.resume/entireresume 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] 60 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.internal/profileinfo 1.0.1 (2008040201)
[INF] 5d (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.internal/textbox 2.0.1 (2011082201)
[INF] e2 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.plans/plans 1.0.1 (2010051701)
[INF] 0d (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/html 1.0.1 (2010090801)
[INF] 1e (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/internalmedia 1.0.1 (2010090801)
[INF] dd (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.internal/socialprofile 1.0.1 (2014011601)
[INF] 3a (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/image 1.0.3 (2010090803)
[INF] b4 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.annotation/annotation 1.0.0 (2014122100)
[INF] 68 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.blog/taggedposts 1.1.1 (2015020200)
[INF] 7f (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.wall 1.2.0 (2016101700)
[INF] 39 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/pdf 1.0.2 (2015020200)
[INF] eb (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.file/gallery 2.0.1 (2011060801)
[INF] a1 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.googleapps 1.0.9 (2011051701)
[INF] e0 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.groupinfo 1.0.0 (2010061805)
[INF] 6d (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.groupmembers 1.0.1 (2010061804)
[INF] 65 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.groupviews 1.0.3 (2016032300)
[INF] c2 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.inbox 1.0.1 (2010031801)
[INF] fe (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.myfriends 1.0.1 (2010031801)
[INF] 92 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.mygroups 1.0.1 (2010031801)
[INF] 17 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.externalfeed 1.0.6 (2016021200)
[INF] d0 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.newviews 1.0.2 (2010042802)
[INF] 34 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.myviews 1.0.2 (2010031802)
[INF] f5 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.externalvideo 1.1.0 (2015112400)
[INF] 5b (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.navigation 1.0.1 (2010070701)
[INF] 29 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.openbadgedisplayer 1.0.5 (2016030200)
[INF] 61 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.watchlist 1.0.1 (2011090701)
[INF] 52 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.creativecommons 1.0.1 (2010090801)
[INF] 2a (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.recentforumposts 1.0.1 (2010090802)
[INF] 75 (admin/upgrade.json.php:90) - blocktype.text 1.0.3 (2014082203)

Performing installation...

19 April 2017, 9:03

I just refreshed the page and got this. Can anyone make sense of this?

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Upgrades

05 June 2017, 11:34

Hi Miriam, hi all, 

Do you have any update on this one. I'm experiencing the same issue - as the screenshot below illustrate. 

I attempted  mahara-17.04,  mahara-17.04.1 and  mahara-17.04.02

Thanks a lot for your help!!

Vjeko

05 June 2017, 12:28

To add to my previous post: 

I was able to install Mahara mahara-17.04.1 ~ 4 weeks ago. In the meantime the only difference was because Moodle 3.3 requirements -- my provider made this changes:

• innodb_file_format Barracuda
• innodb_large_prefix' to 'ON

Networking with other Moodle sites (I'm using it for testing and demoing) did not work as planned, so I uninstalled that version. Now I can not reinstall it. 

Please advise,

Thaanks!

v. 

05 June 2017, 14:15

Hi

There seems to be an issue certain mysql instances and the creating of the 'path' index for the interaction_forum_post table.

Normally on install a table called 'interaction_forum_post' is created with

  path varchar(2048) DEFAULT NULL,

and

  KEY inteforupost_pat_ix (path(1024)),

Note the index is only 1024 and not 2048 as normally the index can only be 1024 chars. It sounds like it is trying to make this and failing as it's still too long.

This is created from the information in

 htdocs/interaction/forum/db/install.xml

Try commenting out the

 <INDEX NAME="pathix" UNIQUE="false" FIELDS="path"/>

And seeing if Mahara will then install, and if it does you can then add the index to the table manually.

Let me know if this works and if the index you can add is 1024 chars long or is a smaller number

A smaller number should still be fine - it will just mean the index is not as efficient

Cheers

Robert

10 July 2017, 9:12

Hi Robert,

I ran into the same error with a new installation on Arch Linux.

[drib@manus] ~ $ pacman -Q mahara
mahara 17.04.2-1

[drib@manus] ~ $ php --version
PHP 7.1.6 (cli) (built: Jun 7 2017 21:11:40) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
 with Zend OPcache v7.1.6, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies

[drib@manus] ~ $ mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.24-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
# /etc/mysql/my.cnf includes:
# innodb_large_prefix = 1
# innodb_file_format = Barracuda
# innodb_file_per_table = ON

Following your advice, I removed '<INDEX NAME="pathix" UNIQUE="false" FIELDS="path"/>' from install.xml and added the index manually:

MariaDB [mahara]> CREATE INDEX pathix ON interaction_forum_post (path (1024));
ERROR 1709 (HY000): Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes.

MariaDB [mahara]> SELECT ROW_FORMAT FROM information_schema.INNODB_SYS_TABLES WHERE NAME = 'mahara/interaction_forum_post';
+------------+
| ROW_FORMAT |
+------------+
| Compact |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mahara]> ALTER TABLE interaction_forum_post ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.25 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

MariaDB [mahara]> SELECT ROW_FORMAT FROM information_schema.INNODB_SYS_TABLES WHERE NAME = 'mahara/interaction_forum_post';
+------------+
| ROW_FORMAT |
+------------+
| Dynamic |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mahara]> CREATE INDEX pathix ON interaction_forum_post (path (1024));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

MariaDB [mahara]> SHOW INDEX FROM interaction_forum_post;
+------------------------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+------------------------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| interaction_forum_post | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| interaction_forum_post | 1 | inteforupost_top_ix | 1 | topic | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| interaction_forum_post | 1 | inteforupost_par_ix | 1 | parent | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | |
| interaction_forum_post | 1 | inteforupost_pos_ix | 1 | poster | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| interaction_forum_post | 1 | pathix | 1 | path | A | 0 | 1024 | NULL | YES | BTREE | | |
+------------------------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Hope this helps.

Unfortunately, Mahara's session regeneration / creation hardly works with PHP 7.1. ...

10 July 2017, 11:22

Hello,

A brief FYI: Mahara does not yet support PHP 7.1. The highest version officially supported is PHP 7.0.

Cheers

Kristina

10 July 2017, 19:00

According to  README.md,  "Mahara requires PHP version 5.4 or later" ...

Can this be fixed somehow?

[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin] [WAR] cc (auth/session.php:457) session_regenerate_id(): open(/var/lib/maharadata/sessions/u/r/m/sess_urm2kn7anrmcpdfu5cg5oh091q, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2)
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin] Call stack (most recent first):
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * log_message(string(size 143), integer, true, true, string(size 42), integer) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/lib/errors.php:521
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * error(integer, string(size 143), string(size 42), integer, array(size 0)) at Unknown:0
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * session_regenerate_id(true) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/auth/session.php:457
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * Session->regenerate_id() at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/auth/user.php:1682
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * LiveUser->authenticate(object(stdClass), string(size 1)) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/auth/user.php:1519
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * LiveUser->login(string(size 5), string(size 8)) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/auth/lib.php:1496
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * login_submit(object(Pieform), array(size 6)) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/lib/pieforms/pieform.php:543
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * Pieform->__construct(array(size 9)) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/lib/mahara.php:4828
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * pieform_instance(array(size 9)) at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/auth/lib.php:504
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * auth_setup() at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/init.php:389
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * require("/usr/share/webapps/mahara/init.php") at /usr/share/webapps/mahara/index.php:16
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin] 
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin] [WAR] cc (lib/errors.php:536) [Error]: Failed to create(read) session ID: files (path: 3;/var/lib/maharadata/sessions)
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin] Call stack (most recent first):
[10-Jul-2017 08:15:59 Europe/Berlin]   * exception(object(Error)) at Unknown:0

'/var/lib/maharadata/sessions/u/r/m/' is out of sessions' directory matix (0 - f).

11 July 2017, 6:52

Hi,

According to the PHP manual, http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-id.php

"Depending on the session handler, not all characters are allowed within the session id. For example, the file session handler only allows characters in the range a-z A-Z 0-9 , (comma) and - (minus)!"

So it sounds like we should allow more characters for the session paths.

Looking at http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.sid-length it seems that a few new options were introduced in PHP 7.1

It looks like you will need to change the line in your htdocs/auth/session.php from

        ini_set('session.hash_bits_per_character', 4);

to

        ini_set('session.sid_bits_per_character', 4);

for now

And I'll file a bug to allow more session subdirectories to Mahara's dataroot session directory

Cheers

Robert

11 July 2017, 8:05

The bug report is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670637 if you want to follow its progress and give the patch a go on your PHP 7.1 system.