Re: [Tiki-devel] Packages and Fitness Check not working

Hi Torsten,

yes, I understood you correctly, just that I should have been more clear
with my commnet - I was simply offering a 'work-around' for one of the most
necessary features of any piece of software, pdf printing.

I agree, there are lots of good 'add-ons' in Packages, but I'm less hopeful
this will get fixed in the near term, so many other competing projects (
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki22 and https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki23)  and not
enough volunteers.

However, I believe Jonny offered to help you if you send him some logs or
something (see previous email)

br,
Mike

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:03 AM Torsten Fabricius via TikiWiki-devel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Mike, hello all,
>
> I think there might be a missunderstanding.
>
> I was not looking to get some webprinting running on a specific webhost or
> Tiki website, but realised that there seems to be a general problem with
> Tiki Packages - causing WSOD - what should be fixed or figured out.
>
> The trick of Packages is that we can aswell install incompatibly licenced
> liraries as also install awesome stuff on shared hosting.
> The problem is, that without Packages being available, the awesome stuff
> is not available.
>
> Do I am missing something and if yes what?
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
>
> Am 16.02.21 um 14:11 schrieb Michael Finko:
>
> Hi Torsten,
>
> For printing (well, pdf printing) I went with WeasyPrint (one  of the 4
> printing options in Control Panels > Printing) because they had simple
> instructions on their site.  But, you do need access to the command
> line/terminal - it seems that now this is possible on shared hosting and,
> actually pretty common.  It's highly likely you have it in cPanel, maybe
> you just missed it?
>
> [image: Screenshot_20201211_161548.png]
>
> br,
> Mike
> p.s. but the other app in Packages that is very helpful is Diagrams - I'll
> have to look if I can install Draw.io by command line somehow...
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:15 AM Torsten Fabricius via TikiWiki-devel <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> I am starting to get back into Tiki work (I am not a coder) and currently
>> I am on a shared host with mariadb and without shell access.
>> So currently I have to download Tiki and to install manually. I typically
>> use the latest Tiki in this case.
>>
>> It is 1 month now since I did read about the problems with Packages the
>> first time recently I did install a few Tiki 21.4 on my host to start with
>> a few little projects.
>> At the point when I start the Packages feature to get any of the cool
>> features like mpdf or other, I get the WSOD blank page and cannot continue
>> with that part ... very sad.
>>
>> As far as I understand, the problem occurs in several Tiki versions and
>> in several if not all server setups, so I think this is kind of a severe
>> problem.
>> First thing:
>> Many thanks to everybody who is contributing to solve the problem.
>> Second:
>> What can I do as a non-coder with literally no financial budget to help
>> solving the problem?
>> Third:
>> Is it a problem with original Tiki code, or is it a Composer problem?
>> Does it occur on all servers or just under specific conditions?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Torsten
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 14.01.21 um 11:32 schrieb Michael Finko:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> So  I touched 'Packages' (big mistake) because it was saying problems
>> with 3 of the installed packages (mPDF, Diagrams and one more, maybe
>> Faker), now  I can't access 'Packages' via the Control Panel (blank white
>> screen).  Before that happened, I pushed all the available buttons like
>> Diagnose and Re-install Composer.  Tried uninstalling mPDF and reinstalling
>> - uninstall worked but didn't get to reinstall before Packages completely
>> stopped working.
>>
>> Also when i run the Fitness Check, I get a blank white screen with this
>> error message:
>>
>> Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method
>> Symfony\Component\Process\Process::inheritEnvironmentVariables() in
>> /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php:213 Stack trace:
>> #0 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php(297):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerCli->getPhpPath() #1 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php(260):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerCli->execComposer(Array) #2 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php(340):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerCli->canExecuteComposer() #3 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php(387):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerCli->execShow() #4 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerManager.php(141):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerCli->getListOfPackagesFromConfig() #5 /home/mike7137/
>> agilitynocode.com/tiki-check.php(1832):
>> Tiki\Package\ComposerManager->getInstalled() #6 {main} thrown in
>> /home/mike7137/agilitynocode.com/lib/core/Tiki/Package/ComposerCli.php
>> on line 213
>>
>> I'll run the Tiki installer to see if that helps - just frankly, am very
>> scared as I have about  95% of my presentation done for FOSDEM (all on wiki
>> pages) and am ready to start recording because it needs to be submitted by
>> tomorrow, so very little time for recording, let alone diagnosing all kinds
>> of issues that could come up...
>>
>> I would have liked to speak positively about both Tiki Server Fitness
>> check and Packages, but honestly, since Tiki 18, they have always been
>> problematic for me, as a non-server specialist.  Though, since 'Packages'
>> is such a complex and fragile 'beast' (like Elastic) it's understandable -
>> however, the big difference is that I can choose to run 'MySQL Full Text
>> Search vs. Elastic' but I don't have the same option with Packages, and
>> mPDF and Diagrams are there, two very important features (well, at least
>> mPDF, as I can still use Draw.io).
>>
>> I'm definitely looking forward to Brendan's improvements to the Server
>> Fitness check (keep in mind both VPS and Shared Hosting and stability
>> issues, please).  Is anyone working on making 'Packages' more stable (for
>> Shared Hosting)?
>>
>> Wish me luck! 🙂
>> Mike
>>
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