Stops on Step Four

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Hey all,

My setup: using CMSMS 1.0.2 running under a XAMPP Lite 1.5.2 setup (Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.20, PHP 5.1.2) on a Win XP Home box from a USB disk drive.

The thing freezes between step 3 & step 4 while creating tables in the MySQL database after 21 - 22 tables (I tried it several times.) nor does it populate any tables. It also does not finish drawing the page (ie. no buttons to move onto step 5). I'm confident CMSMS is a clean download because I had the exact same distro successfully installed on the same USB drive but under a Server2Go setup on a Win 2k machine. (I can't use that because S2G refuses to work on any XP box I try to run it on. I need it to work on the XPs.) Help please!!

--Allen

[tsw]

any errors in logs?

[lodestone]

tsw,

I started with a new log & retried the install. It failed again. I got the following in the apache error log:

[Sat Nov 25 13:02:43 2006] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Sat Nov 25 13:02:44 2006] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null
[Sat Nov 25 13:02:45 2006] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Sat Nov 25 13:02:45 2006] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null

PHP is set on display errors & I didn't see any. There were no MySQL errors in the log.

I don't know if that's of any help. I'm not much for coding, etc.

--Allen

[tsw]

that log seems more like apache error on not being able to even open the error log for appending the real errors...

[lodestone]

Hey,

It must have been temporary because it has other entries thereafter; just notices of the server activity: listening to ports, etc.

It did have another error later but that was related to a problem w/ a missing PHPMySQL theme file:

([Sat Nov 25 13:20:24 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: F:/Xampplite/phpMyAdmin/css/themes, referer: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/css/phpmyad ... rame=right).

Nothing I'm concerned about.

However, not being able to get past the setup is a concern. I would hate to bypass CMSMS as an option. It seems like it may be just the thing I need for my web site if I can get this issue resolved.

--Allen

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It would seem that the problem lie not in software at all but in hardware. I reinstalled the setup, XAMPP and all on the C: drive and disconnected the USB drive. The new install went like gangbusters & I can start learning to make templates, etc. The bad news is that I'm looking at a hardware failure in my USB drive.

At least it wasn't CMSMS (or my mind)! 

--Allen

[Ted]

Are you selecting the mysql (3-4.0) or mysqli (4.1+) drivers during install?  If one doesn't work, sometimes trying to other will solve the problem.

[lodestone]

Ted,

I'm using the package with MySQL 4.1+.

--Allen