Problem

  • Something goes completely wrong when installing Drupal in a different language than English — a single simple installer test takes 7 minutes to complete.

Potential causes

  1. Recursive batch [unsupported] triggered by translation download.
  2. Translation is re-downloaded in every single step of the installer.

Most likely, it's a combination of both (1) + (2), since the verbose browser output shows a (batch) ?id=2 in the install.php requests when the batch for installing the profile+modules is executed.

Comments

sun’s picture

sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
CreditAttribution: sun commented
Parent issue: » #2171683: Remove all Simpletest overrides and rely on native multi-site functionality instead
Gábor Hojtsy’s picture

Gábor Hojtsy
he/him
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary
CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented

The download should happen when you pick the language from then on the downloaded file should be used. The downloaded file will be parsed multiple times until it can be imported to the database (much later in the process). Until then, all requests need translation so they will parse the file. There are multiple batches handling translation (#1993452: Fix confusing UX by merging "Translate configuration" into "Finish translations" task). Not sure where are the bugs and what are just side effects of how this works.

valthebald’s picture

valthebald
Location Sofia
CreditAttribution: valthebald commented

I have just fresh-installed latest 8.x in English, Spanish and German.
English site: installation 1 min 10 sec
Spanish: installation 1 min 50 sec + 30 sec importing translations
German: installation 1 min 30 sec + 20 sec importing translations.
Is the issue still relevant?

myforgedoteu’s picture

myforgedoteu CreditAttribution: myforgedoteu commented

I cannot reproduce, time are still correct and acceptable. I don't believe the issue is relevant anymore.

Gábor Hojtsy’s picture

Gábor Hojtsy
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Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary
CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

The original report was for the test system. But looks like it is not happening anymore. We made measures in the meantime to not download translations in most tests, even when testing the installer language features BTW. :)