Exponential 4 - impressions, problems, and such ;)

Friday 05 October 2007 12:03:27 am

So it is eventually out there :) Looks and feels like the old Exponential, which is rather good news.

The first impression after a local installation is that it is FAST! It's just a feeling, cannon back it up with test results, but the installation processing seems to take half the time of eZP 3.9.x, or even less. Similar observations?

However, I encountered memory problems when trying to install in a shared-hosting environment. Unfortunately, there's no documentation out yet, so my question is: what's the minimum recommended amount of memory for Exponential 4?

Keep testing :)

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Friday 05 October 2007 5:23:04 am

<b>1)</b> Here's the error message (second page of installation wizard):

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate -1 bytes) in /kernel/setup/ezsetuptests.php on line 592
Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request

The execution of Exponential was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.

<b>2)</b> On the welcome page of the wizard, the list of installation language, the list is empty:

  <fieldset>
   <legend>Select installation language:</legend>
   <select name="eZSetupWizardLanguage">
       </select>
  </fieldset>

<b>3)</b> phpinfo():
memory_limit 128M 128M

<b>4)</b> Haven't even reached design choise ;) If i make it there, I'll try both.

BTW: it is a FreeBSD-based hosting solution, with PHP Version 5.2.1 in <b>CGI mode</b> (!!!), but has always worked perfectly (in most areas) with Exponential 3.x.x (a number of installations of v3.8.2-3.9.3).

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Friday 05 October 2007 7:20:18 am

Ok, I'm there. Few unimportant but crucial things I've messed up (which resulted in missing languages, for example). But the key thing is:
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<i>/kernel/setup/ezsetuptests.php line 589:</i>
if ( extension_loaded( 'posix' ) )
{
$userInfo['has_extension'] = true;
<b> $uinfo = posix_getpwuid( posix_getuid() );
$ginfo = posix_getgrgid( posix_getgid() );</b>
$userInfo['user_name'] = $uinfo['name'];
$userInfo['user_id'] = $uinfo['uid'];
$userInfo['group_name'] = $ginfo['name'];
$userInfo['group_id'] = $ginfo['gid'];
$userInfo['group_members'] = $ginfo['members'];
$userInfo['script_user_id'] = getmyuid();
$userInfo['script_group_id'] = getmygid();
}
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Commenting out above code lets me install 4.0alpha with no problems whatsoever. Doublechecked - the above posix_get... functions aren't used anywhere else in the application.

BTW, my phpinfo posix details: $Revision: 1.70.2.3.2.12 $

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