Re: Unable to upgrade to 1.38.2 from 1.36.4

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 6:41 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We are trying to upgrade our Mediawiki from 1.36.4 to 1.38.2. After
> unpacking 1.38 to /var/www/html/w, and while running update.php, we
> encounter:
>
> # /var/www/html/w# php /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php --quick
> PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Exception: Unable to open file
> /ParserFunctions/extension.json:
> filemtime(): stat failed for /ParserFunctions/extension.json in
> /var/www/html/w/includes/
> registration/ExtensionRegistry.php:182
> Stack trace:
> #0 /var/www/html/w/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(52): ExtensionRegistry->queue()
> #1 /var/www/html/w/LocalSettings.php(206): wfLoadExtension()
> #2 /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php(204): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
> #3 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(96):
> require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
> #4 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php(264):
> require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
> #5 {main}
>  thrown in /var/www/html/w/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php
> on line 182
>
> After we commented out every offending line in LocalSettings.php
> (which included most (all?) added-on extensions, like ParserFunctions,
> GlobalFunctions, Gadgets, Admin, SimpleMathJax, EmailInvite), we are
> still left with:
>
> # /var/www/html/w# php /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php --quick
> PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught FatalError: $wgBaseDirectory must not be
> modified in settings f
> iles! Use the MW_INSTALL_PATH environment variable to override the
> installation root direc
> tory. in /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php:237
> Stack trace:
> #0 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(96): require_once()
> #1 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php(264):
> require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
> #2 {main}
>  thrown in /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php on line 237
>
> 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/html/w/includes/Setup.php:237
> Stack trace:
> #0 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(96): require_once()
> #1 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php(264):
> require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
> #2 {main}
>  thrown in /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php on line 237
>
> We are not setting $IP in our LocalSettings.php (as others have
> suggested is a problem).
>
> We are left to wonder... why doesn't this stuff just work? If we are
> forced to upgrade on Mediawiki's cadence, the least you could do is
> ensure there's an upgrade path.
>
> We are really struggling with the upgrade problems. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

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

Jeff