Re: Unable to upgrade to 1.38.x from 1.37.x

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 7:09 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 6:57 PM Jeffrey T. Darlington
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Each time I upgrade, I unzip the archive to a new directory and copy over the images and extensions.  So I've been using the "core" version of Vector for a while.  That said, commenting out the line with wfLoadSkin('Vector') still generates the following error:
> >
> > ================
> > PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught FatalError: $wgBaseDirectory must not be modified in settings files! Use the MW_INSTALL_PATH environment variable to override the installation root directory. in /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/includes/Setup.php:237
> > Stack trace:
> > #0 /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(96): require_once()
> > #1 /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/maintenance/update.php(264): require_once('/var/www/gpf/me...')
> > #2 {main}
> >   thrown in /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/includes/Setup.php on line 237
> > ================
> >
> > I'm not modifying $wgBaseDirectory anywhere in my LocalSettings.php, so I don't see why it would be generating this error.  (Note that all of the files in the stack trace are MediaWiki internal files.)
>
> Yeah, we are at this point, too. We experience the error but don't
> know how to proceed.
>
> I'm backing out of the MW 1.38 upgrade now. We can't proceed until the
> Foundation fixes something.

I filed abug report on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311966

Jeff