By lesleyb on

Hi

I've been teaching myself the ropes on Drupal since November 2011, using Drupal 7 and the zen theme. I'm using a Debian platform.

I've done upgrades on the installation, and being new to it, I may have got things wrong as I started getting error messages showing up. I couldn't find anything in the documentation or bug reports that I could find, so I figured I must have made a mistake somewhere, saved what I needed to and purged Drupal off the system.
I then re-installed it without going through the database set up at install time figuring I could run install.php and reset the db access there. I'd like to know if that is a reasonable expectation, please.

On running http://localhost/drupal7/install.php I get this error:
Notice: Undefined index: distribution_name in drupal_install_profile_distribution_name() (line 196 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/install.inc).

The rest of the installation profile selection form is displayed so it's not a complete show stopper.

The code appears to return $install_state['profile_info']['distribution_name'] or $info['distribution_name'] when the value for the 'distribution_name' index hasn't been defined. The only place that value seems to be defined is in the install_profile_info function and it is initialised into the $info array not the $install_state array.

The install_state_defaults function returns an empty array for the profile_info index and the only place I can find $install_state['profile_info']['distribution_name'] explicitly mentioned is when it is returned from the drupal_install_profile_distribution_name function.

The install_profile_info function is called before the form is set up in install_select_profile_form which is called from install_select_profile with the $install_state['profiles'] array.

I'm left hoping the error won't influence the install.

Can anyone please comment on this error - safe or unsafe - just a code bug or an indication of a problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

lesleyb

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lesleyb commented

I've found this bug report http://drupal.org/node/1508278#comment-5867986
which looks astoundingly similar so I have added my bug report and linked this node in.

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lesleyb commented

I proceeded with the install and it fell over on another page by which I was able to resolve permission problems on settings.php. I also set the content of dbconfig.php and the error does not occur again.

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mshepherd commented

My guess would be that this is almost certainly because you're starting with a populated database.
There's more posts on the subject, but this comment seems to explain a suspected cause which will probably be fixed in D8 before it gets fixed in D7:
https://drupal.org/node/1170362#comment-4563660

I'd suggest you try the install on a second database, before wiping your proper one.

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lesleyb commented

I studied this behaviour a little more -

1. Purged existing drupal7 install and re-installed without configuring the database at install time.

Started localhost/drupal7/install.php and got this error appearing on first page - selecting standard or minimal installation mode.
Notice: Undefined index: distribution_name in drupal_install_profile_distribution_name() (line 196 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/install.inc).

2. Still there when selecting language.
Notice: Undefined index: distribution_name in drupal_install_profile_distribution_name() (line 196 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/install.inc).

3. Still there at requiements check.
Notice: Undefined index: distribution_name in drupal_install_profile_distribution_name() (line 196 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/install.inc).

Also now get errors on lack of db detail
Notice: Undefined offset: 5 in Database::parseConnectionInfo() (line 1510 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/database/database.inc).
Notice: Undefined index: driver in Database::openConnection() (line 1662 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/database/database.inc).

Plus complaints about the default.settings.php and settings.php files:
Default settings file The default settings file does not exist.
The Drupal installer requires that the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file not be modified in any way from the original download.
Settings file The settings file is not writable.
The Drupal installer requires write permissions to ./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process. If you are unsure how to grant file permissions, consult the online handbook.

4. Created a db drupaltest1 and granted privileges : from mysql
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON drupaltest1.* TO 'drupaluser'@'localhost'

Edited dbconfig.php in /etc/drupal7/sites/default/dbconfig.php to contain the database driver, name, user and password details.

5. Refreshed the requirements page and progressed automatically to the database setup but got fourteen (14) of these:
Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: disallowed Unicode code point (>= 0xd800 && <= 0xdfff) at offset 2112 in truncate_utf8() (line 339 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/unicode.inc).
See :
http://drupal.org/node/1442876
http://drupal.org/node/1446372
http://drupal.org/node/1444006

The installation appear to successfully create the database tables.

6. Progressed to next stage, configuring the site but with this error

Notice: Array to string conversion in menu_link_save() (line 3155 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/menu.inc).

a number of times - one of the nodes below counted >400 repeats.
See :
http://drupal.org/node/1479236
http://drupal.org/node/1338282
http://drupal.org/node/1477646
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60198
and the related
http://drupal.org/node/1342216

This problem needs a patch and a multitude are available at
http://drupal.org/node/1338282. All downloaded to patches.120425/138282.
The spirit of the patches is to replace array_interset_assoc with
array_intersect_key on the two lines it appears in includes/menu.inc. - lines
3152 and 3155 in Debian wheezy drupal7 istallation.

A page refresh after applying this patch removes the Array to string conversion
errors.

7. Proceed with install and declare site information. Now get these errors:

Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: disallowed Unicode code point (>=
0xd800 && <= 0xdfff) at offset 2112 in truncate_utf8() (line 339 of
/usr/share/drupal7/includes/unicode.inc).
and a number of :
Warning: Illegal string offset 'field' in DatabaseCondition->__clone() (line
1901 of /usr/share/drupal7/includes/database/query.inc).

See:
above for preg_match utf8 problem.
and, for the database _clone problem
http://drupal.org/node/1483986 (for sqlite only)
http://drupal.org/node/1467776 ( a duplicate of 1414412 )
http://drupal.org/node/1414412

The _clone method problem shows when displaying the front page. Patch applied and error is removed.

I am pleased I have managed to identify the install problems created by not creating a database first.

So the problems 1-4 were of my own creation, the remainder - the ones I had encountered before, were bugs requiring patches on my platform.

Now all I need to do is try and re-use my previous database.