Unable to run Upgrade

[robinc]

Hi jeanmarc

I am currently unable to run the Upgrade process either for meterN or for 123solar.

In both cases, it reaches the _INSTALL/updater.php page which simply displays 'ERROR'
Looking at updater.php, I modified the ERROR message to display CURDIR and SRVDIR.
It seems that the Session variables $_SESSION['CURDIR'] and $_SESSION['SRVDIR'] are returning empty strings.

I have been running metern 0.8.4 and 123solar 1.8.1 for the past 2years without any problems but
decided that it was time to bring things up to date.

I have recently done a full system upgrade ( pacman -Syu ) and everything continues to run smoothly except that
I am unable to get an Update to run .....

Distro is Arch ARM, PHP version is 7.3.10 :-

[-@pw-archpi ~]$ uname -a
Linux pw-archpi 4.19.76-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 8 03:34:09 UTC 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

[-@pw-archpi ~]$ pacman -Qs php
local/php 7.3.10-1
A general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
local/php-cgi 7.3.10-1
CGI and FCGI SAPI for PHP
local/php-fpm 7.3.10-1
FastCGI Process Manager for PHP
_INSTALL/updater.php

Any suggestions for further troubleshooting ?

Thanks as always .....

[jeanmarc]

Hi,
Make sure your read the release notes. I have pass under HTTPS since 0.9, you should change some files
You can also use admin/update.php and updater.php from the latest if you wish.
That should do the trick
For 123s it use HTTPS since 1.8, you have problem ?

[robinc]

Yes, I am aware of the https change and have done the change for previous upgrades.

The upgrade process successfully detects the available new release and fails as described when attempting to start the actual upgrade.

[robinc]

OK, so I have just discovered that /var/log/nginx/error.log is full of the following error messages :-

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2019/10/17 22:12:06 [error] 284#284: *85 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning:  session_start(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/dev/shm:/srv/http/:) in /srv/http/_INSTALL/updater.php on line 2PHP message: PHP Warning:  session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /srv/http/_INSTALL/updater.php on line 2PHP message: PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: _SESSION in /srv/http/_INSTALL/updater.php on line 3PHP message: PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: _SESSION in /srv/http/_INSTALL/updater.php on line 4" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /_INSTALL/updater.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock:", host: "127.0.0.1:8083", referrer: "http://127.0.0.1:8083/123solar/admin/update.php"

[jeanmarc]

Thanks for letting us know. I have to look back in 0.8.4 code but i guess you should have no problem with latest update.

[robinc]

Hi,
It turns out that the problem was due to an old php.ini file.

Earlier versions of php had open_basedir set by default, and in my case this excluded access to /tmp.
php 7 and later leaves open_basedir unset by default.

I can now run the updater for both metern and for 123solar ....
Thanks ...