Error on install Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting! [#1663314]

I am receiving this error on installing in the error logs

PHP Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting! in /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/profiles/commerce_kickstart/modules/contrib/pathauto/pathauto.module on line 40, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 1. {main}() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php:0, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 2. install_drupal() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php:26, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 3. install_run_tasks() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/install.core.inc:79, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 4. install_run_task() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/install.core.inc:342, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 5. _batch_page() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/install.core.inc:452, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 6. _batch_do() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/batch.inc:80, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 7. _batch_process() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/batch.inc:161, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 8. call_user_func_array() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/batch.inc:284, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 9. _install_module_batch() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/batch.inc:0, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 10. module_enable() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/install.core.inc:1552, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...
[Wed Jun 27 16:11:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 11. module_invoke() /home/ted/workspace/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/includes/module.inc:457, referer: http://localhost/commerce_kickstart_alpha1/install.php?profile=commerce_...

The install screen stops here:

Completed 105 of 133.
Installed Taxonomy breadcrumb module.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04. php version "PHP Version 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2"

I have attached a file with the lines from my error.log file
and a text file with the result of phpinfo().

Currently I am trying alpha1 version but had the same issue with dev a few days ago.

thanks for all the hard work on this project. Looking forward to checking it out.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#8	commerce_kickstart-n1663314.patch	752 bytes	DamienMcKenna
	phpinfo_html.txt	71.15 KB	tedbow
	kickstart_install_error_log.txt	29.74 KB	tedbow

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Comments

Comment #1

Haza

French

CreditAttribution: Haza commented 27 June 2012 at 21:01

Thanks for filling this issue.

~~Do you have xdebug ? I already saw the same issue with someone using the default conf of xdebug.~~
Sorry, saw the phpinfo file. Yes, you have xdebug with a max_nesting_level at 100.

Putting a xdebug.max_nesting_level=500 in xdebug's conf solved the issue. (maybe you can try with a lower value, but I didn't tested that)

Comment #2

bojanz CreditAttribution: bojanz commented 27 June 2012 at 21:24

Drupal loves to nest. I remember having this issue with Rules, and not being able to solve it.

We'll look into this at one point, but for now it's best to simply set xdebug to be less strict.

Comment #3

tedbow

he/him

English

Ithaca, NY, USA

CreditAttribution: tedbow commented 28 June 2012 at 12:44

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Great that fixed it for me. System looks great, glad to be able to check it out!

FYI I know this probably a problem with Drupal Core's Batch API(not kickstart) but there was nothing on the screen that would have told me there was an error. I just figured that step was taking too long. Had to check the logs to see there was an error.

Comment #4

12 July 2012 at 12:51

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Comment #5

DamienMcKenna

NH, USA

CreditAttribution: DamienMcKenna commented 12 July 2012 at 13:01

Status:

Closed (fixed)

» Active

I wouldn't count this as fixed, because it shouldn't be hitting 100+ levels of recursion. Lets leave this open for further research, but note the work-around above that Haza posted.

Comment #6

DamienMcKenna

NH, USA

CreditAttribution: DamienMcKenna commented 12 July 2012 at 13:08

I can verify that setting the xdebug.max_nesting_level setting to 500 in my php.ini on PHP 5.3.2 does indeed make this work.

As mentioned in comment #5, this should not constitute a fix - we're not going to want to tell users "you have to change your php.ini file in order for this to install" as this distribution should work for shared hosts where site builders don't have access to modify that file.

Comment #7

Haza

French

CreditAttribution: Haza commented 12 July 2012 at 13:32

Status:

Active

» Closed (fixed)

this distribution should work for shared hosts where site builders don't have access to modify that file.

And they won't have xdebug on their shared hosting, so they won't have this problem.

Comment #8

DamienMcKenna

NH, USA

CreditAttribution: DamienMcKenna commented 12 July 2012 at 14:51

Status:

Closed (fixed)

» Needs review

File	Size
commerce_kickstart-n1663314.patch	752 bytes

How about adding a note to the README file like this?

Comment #9

KarinG

🇨🇦

CreditAttribution: KarinG commented 14 July 2012 at 21:52

I ran into this exact same problem. Stuck at:

Completed 105 of 133.
Installed Taxonomy breadcrumb module.

Adding xdebug.max_nesting_level=500 to the php.ini indeed helped get the installer passed this point, but then I'm seeing a white screen when it gets to the end: http://kickstart-sandbox.local/install.php?profile=commerce_kickstart&lo...

Message in log:
[14-Jul-2012 15:46:48] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Local/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev/profiles/commerce_kickstart/modules/contrib/views/theme/theme.inc on line 539

How much will I need?

Comment #10

KarinG

🇨🇦

CreditAttribution: KarinG commented 14 July 2012 at 22:43

I went to memory_limit = 256MB and rebooted my server. That solved it. It's quite possible rebooting the server alone would have solved it.

Comment #11

bojanz CreditAttribution: bojanz commented 14 July 2012 at 22:44

150M seems to be the safe value right now. Hoping to get that under control in time for beta.

Holding off committing the README patch because the README will need to be rewritten anyway, and we might fix the nesting problems before then.

Comment #12

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 27 July 2012 at 19:44

I combined several suggestions, one at a time, and finally met with success installing alpha 3 on my Windows 7 system.

in php.ini (if using wamp, select php folder)

set max_input_nesting_level = 200
add xdebug.max_nesting_level=500
set memory_limit

= 256M

in my.ini (if using wamp, select mySQL folder)

tse max_allowed_packet = 16M

Comment #13

vasike

Ramnicu Valcea

CreditAttribution: vasike commented 17 September 2012 at 08:18

Status:

Needs review

» Closed (duplicate)

i think we have a duplicate #1772096: "Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting!" for xdebug

Comment #14

rajatparida CreditAttribution: rajatparida commented 19 June 2015 at 06:33

Add below line on - wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.9/bin - It works for me.

max_input_nesting_level = 250
xdebug.max_nesting_level= 256

Comment #15

hainv100990 CreditAttribution: hainv100990 as a volunteer commented 24 December 2015 at 04:55

I get error the same :
Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting! in C:\wamp\www\drupal8\vendor\composer\ClassLoader.php on line
I have add xdebug.max_nesting_level= 256 in file php.ini . it still error.
Please Help Me.
Thank you.

Comment #16

hedel CreditAttribution: hedel as a volunteer commented 26 January 2016 at 07:53

I know it's a old thread but how there I didn't see a concretely answer, I want add something for the future readers/askers:

Drupal 8 check for this requirement during the installation:

Xdebug settings
xdebug.max_nesting_level is set to 250. Set xdebug.max_nesting_level=256 in your PHP configuration as some pages in your Drupal site will not work when this setting is too low.