Unable to download to /modules: "warning: SimpleXMLElement::xpath(): Invalid expression"
| Project: | Drush |
| Version: | All-Versions-HEAD |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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I recently updated my all versions drush to a newer version, i still had the first release of it. Anywho, when i tried the 'dl' command
drushs dl backlinks talk interwikiI got this in return:
Unable to download to /var/www/dev-shamce/public/sites/all/modules/ from [error]
Project talk (6.x-1.5) downloaded to /var/www/dev-shamce/public/sites/all/modules/. [success]
Project interwiki (6.x-1.x-dev) downloaded to /var/www/dev-shamce/public/sites/all/modules/. [success]
warning: SimpleXMLElement::xpath(): Invalid expression in [warning]
/var/www/drupal-files/drush/commands/pm/pm.drush.inc on line 802.
warning: SimpleXMLElement::xpath(): xmlXPathEval: evaluation failed in [warning]
/var/www/drupal-files/drush/commands/pm/pm.drush.inc on line 802.
An error occurred at function : drush_pm_dl [error]Thoug it still seems to work now and then with some modules. I currently have a mulitsite setup with my directories laid out as follows:
/var/www/drupal-files/drush
/var/www/drupal-files/sites/all/modules
/var/www/drupal-files/sites/all/themes
/var/www/drupal-files/sites/all/libraries
/var/www/drupal-site1
/var/www/drupal-site2
the all/* folders are symlinks from /var/www/drupal-site*/sites/all/* to the /var/www/drupal-files/sites/all/* dirs which has worked for me for a while until now. Like this i can have one modules/themes/libraries dir for all the common modules on the sites to help the maintenance and to help keep track of hacked/patched modules
Im just not sure where to start to try and figure out how to fix this. Any help is greatly appreciated
#1
This would be the 3rd issue I know of dealing with drush and symlink problems...
My advice N1 is that you move drush out of the drupal root.
I personally do not use the symlink module maintenance method because although it makes the update itself easy on say 20 sites - you still have to manually test them and do it fast if they are live sites...
(of course - for important projects we have test (for editors) and dev(for developers) sites ...)
So I sacrificed speed for flexibility - every site is completely separate and I update the site when I decide that it needs urgent updates and only the modules I consider urgent...
And since drush updates fast after all It is not so much speed I sacrificed but I rather chose to deal with things one site at a time - each site has its personality :) I fight smaller battles :)
After you move drush out of the drupal dir we can try do debug the error msg above... Please report back if the problem persists still.
#2
after i moved around some files and found a few permissions issues with some files, and moved drush out of root i do not have the problem anymore. So im not sure if it was a permissions thing or a drush being in the site folder. but either way i no longer have this problem. marking as closed.