Terminal Upgrade command won't execute

[aleskl]

I just did an upgrade from 2.3.6 to 2.4.0 (by patching) and encountered a similar problem as above, with upgrade.php script not working. I ended up with a non-functioning installation, reporting all sorts of DB errors.

However, deleting "medra" and "datacite" plugins did the trick, and database was also upgraded to 2.4.0 using "php tools/upgrade.php upgrade", luckily!

[asmecher]

Hi aleskl,

That's bug #7848; it's on our recommended patch list for OJS 2.4.0. We'll be releasing a follow-up that resolves these fairly soon; note that 2.4.0 is a development release and you'll be more likely to run into minor issues than you would be with the stable (currently OJS 2.3.7) release.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[aleskl]

Thank you Alec!
I corrected both plugin files as described in bug #7848 and the Datacite plugin now works, but the mEDRA plugin fails - it displays only "../../../datacite/classes/form/DOIExportSettingsForm.inc.php". I looked at the source code of the page and that is all that gets output by the medra plugin, either clicking on Settings or Import/export data.
The upgrade.php script now seems to work normally.

[asmecher]

Hi aleskl,

Are you sure that's not something you've inadvertently added while debugging the above problem?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[aleskl]

I found out what is the problem with the mEDRA plugin:

The files DOIExportDom.inc.php, DOIExportPlugin.inc.php and PubObjectCache.inc.php in the "/plugins/importexport/medra/classes" directory contain only references to the files in the "/plugins/importexport/datacite/classes" directory, like this: ../../datacite/classes/DOIExportPlugin.inc.php

Also /medra/classes/form/DOIExportSettingsForm.inc.php is empty and contains only reference to the same file in the "datacite" directory.

I replaced the above files in the "medra" directory with the files from the "datacite" directory and now the mEDRA plugin works. I don't know if the .php files containing only reference should work otherwise, but on our server they don't.

I downloaded a fresh copy of the ojs-2.4.0.tar.gz from the PKP website again, to check if I messed up something, but the same .php files containing only references were there in the medra plugin directory.

Regards,
Ales

[asmecher]

Hi Ales,

See http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7932; this is an issue with systems that don't support symbolic links. The following files will be affected in this way on your system:

• plugins/importexport/medra/locale/en_US/common.xml
• plugins/importexport/medra/locale/de_DE/common.xml
• plugins/importexport/medra/classes/PubObjectCache.inc.php
• plugins/importexport/medra/classes/DOIExportDom.inc.php
• plugins/importexport/medra/classes/form/DOIExportSettingsForm.inc.php
• plugins/importexport/medra/classes/DOIExportPlugin.inc.php

For each one, find another file of the same name in plugins/importexport/datacite and copy them into the locations above. This will be fixed in the forthcoming 2.4.1 release.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[aleskl]

Thank you Alec, I've copied the files you listed. Our server runs on CentOS Linux 5.7, but I don't know why it doesn't supports symbolic links or if I can turn it on.
Regards, Ales

[asmecher]

Hi Ales,

The next release will be made by including explicit copies of those files, so you won't need to worry about symlinks in the future. CentOS supports symlinks, so I suspect it's something that happened during the extraction or upload of OJS to the server.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team