little path/file issue

[moreonion]

hey!

I'm getting this error while installing (gentoo server, newest drupal, newest civicrm)


Warning: require_once(/var/--------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/DB.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/-------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/civicrm.php  on line 136

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www:88/-------------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/DB.php' (include_path='/var/www:88/----------------------------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm:/var/www:88/-----------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages:.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php') in /var/www:88/---------------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/civicrm.php on line 136


any ideas?
I couldn't find the DB.php file anywhere around otherwise I would have simply fixed the path....
can someone point it to me?

thank you in advance (btw I LOVE civicrm)

[Piotr Szotkowski]

This means that for some reason the include_path is not set to contain the packages directory (where DB.php lives).

Is this on the first install screen or somewhere further?

[moreonion]

it comes up right after the screen where you enter db details and file permissions
everything went green on that screen (status:ok) and the next screen said something like "this is going to take some time - building db structure, etc. but it had those errors at the bottom....

I tried it with other versions (not only the newest available) and they all turned out the same ;-(

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Can you check what is the value of include_path at the beginning of the civicrm_source() function in install/civicrm.php? It seems this is where we require_once 'DB.php' and apparently the packages dir is not searched there…

[moreonion]

sorry for late reply, it's:

 set_include_path( $crmPath . PATH_SEPARATOR .
                      $pkgPath . PATH_SEPARATOR .
                      get_include_path( ) );


help much appreciated....

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Right, the code tries to set it to prepend $crmPath and $pkgPath to the current include_path, but can you try checking what’s the result?

Something to the tune of:

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print 'resulting include_path: ' . get_include_path() . '<br />';

right before the unfortunate require_once call (to see where the problem lies, i.e., whether the relevant path is, indeed, not searched).

[moreonion]

I'm happy to test it, but I don't know php - so if you could paste me a snippet and tell me exactly where to put it that would be awesome.


Thank you 
florian

[Piotr Szotkowski]

I'm happy to test it, but I don't know php - so if you could paste me a snippet and tell me exactly where to put it that would be awesome.

Ok, let me repeat, then. The snippet is

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print 'resulting include_path: ' . get_include_path() . '<br />';

and you need to paste it right before the unfortunate require_once call, i.e., right before line 136 of /var/--------.com/htdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/DB.php

[Roman Zimmermann]

the problem seems to be, that the path to the civicrm installations contains the PATH_SEPARATOR.
afaik php offers no way to escape (I'd love to be proven wrong on this one), so the only way to solve this is to move /var/www:88 to something that doesn't contain a colon.

[moreonion]

thank you for your support folks ;-)

looking forward to invest in civicrm development....

[Piotr Szotkowski]

the problem seems to be, that the path to the civicrm installations contains the PATH_SEPARATOR.

Ah, good catch. I see CRM-6485 was filed for this in the meantime, so I’ll fix that (and see whether there is a way to escape colons in PHP’s include_paths, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that).