XF 1.2 Hoping this helps others fix an installation error

[pjkenned]

This is quite interesting. I had a server with XF 1.2.5 up and running with CentOS 6.5 + centmin mod yesterday. I used about a 1 month old SQL dump for the old forum.

I wanted to practice the installation and move to a 1.3 RC so I reverted the VM to a previous version, installed the new vhost, setup the MariaDB database, unzipped and copied files, changed directory permissions. I then launched the installer and after testing and adding MySQL config in step 2 I got the following errors:

Server Error

Server Error

Mysqli statement execute error : Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_e651_0.MAI' (Errcode: 13)

1.  Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_execute() in Zend/Db/Statement.php at line 297

2.  Zend_Db_Statement->execute() in Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php at line 479

3.  Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query() in XenForo/Model.php at line 219

4.  XenForo_Model->fetchAllKeyed() in XenForo/Model/StyleProperty.php at line 79

5.  XenForo_Model_StyleProperty->getStylePropertiesInStyles() in XenForo/Model/StyleProperty.php at line 606

6.  XenForo_Model_StyleProperty->rebuildPropertyCacheInStyleAndChildren() in XenForo/Model/StyleProperty.php at line 2434

7.  XenForo_Model_StyleProperty->importStylePropertiesFromArray() in XenForo/Model/StyleProperty.php at line 2305

8.  XenForo_Model_StyleProperty->importStylePropertyXml() in XenForo/Model/StyleProperty.php at line 2238

9.  XenForo_Model_StyleProperty->importStylePropertyDevelopmentXml() in XenForo/Deferred/ImportMasterData.php at line 26

10.  XenForo_Deferred_ImportMasterData->execute() in XenForo/Deferred/Atomic.php at line 66

11.  XenForo_Deferred_Atomic->execute() in XenForo/Model/Deferred.php at line 256

12.  XenForo_Model_Deferred->runDeferred() in XenForo/Model/Deferred.php at line 390

13.  XenForo_Model_Deferred->_runInternal() in XenForo/Model/Deferred.php at line 316

14.  XenForo_Model_Deferred->runByUniqueKey() in XenForo/Install/Controller/Abstract.php at line 34

15.  XenForo_Install_Controller_Abstract->_manualDeferredRunner() in XenForo/Install/Controller/Install.php at line 236

16.  XenForo_Install_Controller_Install->actionRunDeferred() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 347

17.  XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134

18.  XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/nginx/domains/test.(name changed).com/public/install/index.php at line 18

The same error occurred on a 1.2.5 installation so I knew something was wrong. I restarted the mysql and nginx services to no avail. Curiously, the fix was simply rebooting the VM.

Hopefully this helps someone else.

 

[Mike]

For what it's worth, error code 13 is "permission denied". If rebooting fixes it, that may be ok -- it's possible that the permission error indicated filesystem corruption.