Re: Midgard, MidCOM problems

Sonic <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was quite busy the last few days so I couldn't continue experimenting with 
> the server anymore. Today, I tried again. As a reminder, the goal was to 
> update from Midcom 1.4 to 2.4. I tried this because staging/live has been 
> broken for me since approx. 1.6.2 (repligard does not replicate article_i 
> elements, just article elements), so I can edit content on my server again.

Staging/live was designed with lack of repligard knowledge :/
 
> there was one warning in midgard-core:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> 
> checking for check - version >= 0.8.2... no
> *** Could not run check test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for
> *** the exact error that occured.
> configure: WARNING: Check not found; cannot run unit tests!

You should have 'check' package installed. But this is only warning.
 
> repligard-Message: Making missing GUIDs...
> Updating database: version control
> ERROR 1146 at line 1: Table 'tmpxmlupdate.quota' doesn't exist
> Updating database: quota support

OK, I'll do my best to fix this before 1.7 stable.
 
> This happens every time I import any package with datagard. I don't know if it 
> has any significance

It has not.
 
> For new pages, MidCOM 2.4.2 is working, but seems to have layout problems 
> although I set the style to midcom-template in Aegir (see attached 
> screenshot). I also tried importing layout-table.xml, but "template_Simple 
> Table Layout" doesn't show up in Aegir, so I can't try it. 
> 
> My old web sites still use 1.4.0 and the wrong midcom_template, but I don't 
> really know where or how to change that.

OK, can you run simple query in mysql midgard database?
'SELECT id FROM page WHERE name LIKE '%template%';

 
> I tried to recompile the php mysql extension, but there are still segfaults in 
> phpMyAdmin, but I have the impression that they are fewer than before, and 
> they seem to be connected to miidcom-admin now, not to standard cms pages. I 
> can investigate further if anyone is interested.

I would be very glad if you could reproduce it and send backtrace.
 
> as alwys, any help is greatly appreciated. And needed. I don't know why, but 
> the gods of Midgard really seem to hate me :-)

Gods of Midgard love you very much :)
Midgard 1.7 is the first release with so many huge changes since 1.2.x I think.

Piotras