Fatal error: Call to a member function type() on a non-object after installation on first page

Avi_Miller · June 6, 2008, 7:39am

PHP is segfaulting before creating the required configuration files. Our job is to work out why.

mguadalupe · June 6, 2008, 7:44am

OK I installed matrix again on a new VM server and got this error on step_03.php

    +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | MySource Warning																					 |
    |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    | Unable to create another "Root Folder", it is a System Asset and you are only allowed one [CORE0085] |
    +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    +------------------------------------------------------+
    | MySource Error									   |
    |------------------------------------------------------|
    | Root Folder NOT CREATED [CORE0001]				   |
    +------------------------------------------------------+

Avi_Miller · June 6, 2008, 8:22am

Means that your installation failed earlier and wasn't reset. If you're not getting any segmentation faults on this VM, clear the filesystem and database and start again. :)

mguadalupe · June 9, 2008, 12:05am

I'm still getting the segmentation fault, but there's no trace why that message is coming up, we're goin to re-install PHP from source and not from apt-get install php5, and see how it goes.

Anyway, I'm still trying to make it work regardless of the segfault and i'm getting this message.

    MySource Warning
    System asset name "public_user" not installed or not known [SYS0209]
PHP Notice
Trying to get property of non-object</pre>

gsherwood · June 9, 2008, 1:31am

[quote]

MySource Warning
System asset name “public_user” not installed or not known [SYS0209]

PHP Notice
Trying to get property of non-object</pre>[/quote]<br />

This means the system was not installed properly. You need to delete the file system and DB before starting again. If you get any errors or segfaults during the install, the system is not going to work at all.

mguadalupe · June 11, 2008, 3:48am

I'm still getting segfaults everytime I install matrix, I've recompiled PHP5 from source using the following:

    './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2' '--with-mysql=shared,/usr' '--with-xsl=shared,/usr' '--enable-soap' '--with-curl=shared,/usr' '--with-pgsql' '--enable-wddx' '--with-gd=shared,/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-png-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-freetype-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-imap=shared,/usr' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-ttf=shared,/usr' '--with-t1lib=shared,/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-sockets' '--with-ldap' '--with-openssl' '--with-pear' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-expat-dir=/usr/share/doc-base/expat' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/usr' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/usr'

and here's the php test after compiling, might help.

Avi_Miller · June 11, 2008, 4:08am

I'm afraid I've reached the end of my Debian/PHP knowledge on this -- I've never seen PHP segfault on a Matrix installation. Usually I just use the packaged version of PHP with CentOS5/RHEL5. Hopefully someone else can assist further.

Are you able to run other PHP applications on that VM?

mguadalupe · June 11, 2008, 6:32am

Ok, I removed and did a fresh install of PHP5, then checked and made sure that the PHP5 install is clean.
Also bear in mind that this is running on a Xen platform.

OK, I'm still getting this

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | PHP Warning																										   |
    |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    | require_once([SYSTEM_ROOT]/data/private/conf/messaging_service.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory |
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    
    Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/var/www-virtual/matrix.nsp.co.nz/data/private/conf/messaging_service.inc' (include_path='.:/var/www-virtual/matrix.nsp.co.nz/php_includes:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www-virtual/matrix.nsp.co.nz/core/include/messaging_service.inc on line 18
    Segmentation fault

gsherwood · June 11, 2008, 6:46am

You should have got that config file during the install. Try running install/step_03.php again to see if it is created.

Avi_Miller · June 11, 2008, 8:53am

You're still getting a Segmentation Fault, which means the installation is crashing before it can create all the configuration files it needs. I'm going to try and load up a Xen-based Debian server and see if I can replicate this issue. Can you give me exact versions of the Dom0 operating system running Xen (with kernel version) as well as the DomU guest operating system version?

mguadalupe · June 12, 2008, 12:57am

It's Xen Enterprise 4.1, not the open source Xen.
Hope that helps.

mguadalupe · June 16, 2008, 5:32am

Hi has anyone by any chance look into this yet?

We installed a new box on a real hardware with the following info:

    PHP 5.2.5-3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 21 2008 02:03:40)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
    	with eAccelerator v0.9.5.3, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator

    					   Apache Server Status for localhost
   Server Version: Apache/2.2.8 (Debian) PHP/5.2.5-3 with Suhosin-Patch
   Server Built: May 13 2008 20:48:45
	 __________________________________________________________________</pre><br />



And my postgres DB is on a seperate server: (Xen guest)

PostgreSQL 8.3.0 on

    Linux version 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:43:13 UTC 2008




and i'm still getting segfaults after running step_02.php:

Jun 16 04:10:38 markg kernel: php[22683]: segfault at b71da930 eip b71da930 esp bfc0ad5c error 4

mguadalupe · June 16, 2008, 6:45am

Linux version info of where my apache2/php5 is.

    Linux version 2.6.24-1-686 (Debian 2.6.24-7) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080114 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-19)) #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008

    Using MySource Matrix 3.18.2
	* Filename: mysource_3-18-2.tar.gz
	* Size: 4619384 b</pre>

mguadalupe · June 17, 2008, 12:38am

To all having the same issues:

I managed to run Matrix (http://YOUR_DOMAIN_OR_IP/_admin/?SQ_ACTION=login&) on my development box on a real hardware even having fatal-errors on my first run of step_02.php and step_03.php and then by running the same file twice , the error will be gone after running the same step_0x.php file the second time.

It seems to be running ok (/_admin/), as I succesfully logged in as root:root .

mguadalupe · June 17, 2008, 3:41am

I'm getting php segfaults message and fatal errors during the install but seems that the system "worksforme". ;)
Anyway I don't know what the main cause is but I guess the important thing is it worked!
Now I just have to familiarise myself on the backend and howto use the system, to play&enable the /index.php/ of the site.

Avi_Miller · June 17, 2008, 3:46am

Keep in mind that there is no index.php visible in the URLs generated by Matrix. The final Apache alias line redirects all requests to the Matrix controller. To create the equivalent of a "default" home page, you setup a Site asset (that you assign a URL to on the URL screen) and then set an "Index" page on the Details screen of the Site asset.

Be sure to check out the Quick Start Guide for more info and a starting guide.