[horde] Horde dead after last upgrade

Mon Apr 16 11:19:43 UTC 2012

Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
> Sveiki,
>
>   Monday, April 16, 2012, 2:25:50 AM, you wrote:
>> Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>>> Please do not use HTML and replying will be fine. Now I cannot reply
>>>     properly either.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Anyway, what‘s your $conf[menu][apps] in IMP looks like?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     --
>>>
>>>       Vilius
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     From: Louis-Philippe Allard [mailto:lp.allard.1 at gmail.com]
>>>     Sent: 2012 m. balandžio 13 d. 03:47
>>>     To: Simon Wilson
>>>     Cc: Vilius Šumskas; horde at lists.horde.org
>>>     Subject: Re: [horde] Horde dead after last upgrade
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Sorry for top-posting, IMP doesnt let me insert a new line at the
>>>     end of the email.. ....
>>>
>>>     OK I will use your advice for backing up my stuff.. In the meantime
>>>     maybe you guys can help me recover my menu entries that are gone..
>>>
>>>     I did remembered to have encountered the very same scenario and I
>>>     was right!  Back in December 2011, I asked the community about this
>>>     issue after an upgrade..  Jan Schneider has answered
>>>     (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.horde.user/26600/focus=26601)
>>>     that I needed to restore the options in the application's menus
>>>     which back then proved to have worked, but now, its not.  I have all
>>>     options set within the calendar and contacts options, but these
>>>     items are still missing from the side menu.
>>>
>>>     Anybody can shed some light on this?
>>>
>>>     Thanks
>>>
>>>     Quoting Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>:
>>>
>>>     On 12/04/2012, at 11:27 AM, Louis-Philippe Allard
>>>     <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Im starting to wonder what kind of code is in horde...  out of  
>>> nowhere,  I
>>>     could access the login page but couldn't get past it.   Then, after the
>>>     update of this morning,  it works perfectly.  Now fearing to lose or
>>>     otherwise corrupt my calendar & contacts,  I'd like to implement an
>>>     automated backup.  Would a cron job to backup my database  
>>> MySQL would do?
>>>
>>>     Thanks
>>>
>>>     Sent from mobile device
>>>
>>>     I have a cron-driven script that does an SQL dump every night, then
>>>     Bacula picks up the resultant file, the horde4 directory (to ensure
>>>     that I also have all my configuration and modifications), and my
>>>     horde vfs directory. I figure that should make it fairly simple to
>>>     recreate...
>>>     Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 2012-04-10 5:15 PM, "Vilius Šumskas" <vilius at lnk.lt> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> rašė:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     my horde install has been offline for about 3 months and since then Ive
>>>     managed to modify, add and remove lots of info on my android smartphone
>>>     which I wanted to sync with horde.  I was unfortunately  
>>> shocked once again
>>>     to realize that the sync went really bad with events and contacts that
>>>     disappeared on BOTH calendars and address books, and that some of the
>>>     events were not synced properly...
>>>
>>>
>>>     Anyways, all kinds of problems.
>>>
>>>     I decided to upgrade horde to see if it would help, but I  
>>> managed to kill
>>>     it!
>>>
>>>     Here's what I did:
>>>
>>>     Copy horde/config/conf.php & horde/imp/conf.php to a different location
>>>     Upgrade horde with  pear upgrade -a -B -c horde (which  
>>> complained of tons
>>>     of stuff like this package is not available in stable release,  
>>> use .... to
>>>     install from alpha)
>>>     Now I try to login as admin, I get
>>>
>>>     A fatal error has occurredHorde_Auth: Class definition of not
>>>     found.Details
>>>     have been logged for the administrator.Also I have a shortcut  
>>> in firefox
>>>     to
>>>     launch the login page.  The shortcut has "http://192.168.0.101/horde4"
>>>     but
>>>     when I click on it, I get "
>>> http://www.horde4.com/login.**php?=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://www.horde4.com/login.php?=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
>>>     (where xxxx is a string
>>>     of number/letters) and firefox gives me:
>>>
>>>     You don't need to copy conf.php files because upgrade doesn't  
>>> touch them.
>>>     You are running into one of the following most probably:
>>>
>>>     1) you have accidently (or not) modified one of your conf.php  
>>> files during
>>>     copy operation, and now it has a PHP syntax error.
>>>     2) you have modified prefs.php or any other files in conf/  
>>> folder without
>>>     creating .local.php copy, and now your configuration is lost.
>>>     3) the upgrade procedure was somehow interrupted.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Anyway, check your Horde logs for more information.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Vilius
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>     Louis-Philippe Allard
>>> lp.allard.1 at gmail.com
>>>     Sent from Horde Groupware - GNU/Linux
>>>
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>>
>> Vilius, my $conf[menu][apps] looks like
>> $conf['menu']['apps']=array('horde');
>> I hope this helps helping me.. :)
>   It should be an array of all applications which you need to see on IMP
>   sidebar. E.g. turba, passwd, kronolith etc.
>
>
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>   Best regards,
>   Vilius
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This fixed it, but why this option was reset is really what I woried about..

Anyway thanks Vilius for the pointer!