[horde] Problem with preferences backend

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Erik Quaeghebeur <horde at equaeghe.nospammail.net>:

> Hi,
>
>
> I'm using Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 5.1.3 with Horde 5.1.5  
> (and other installed applications updated last week).
>
> I very often get the following two notification messages:
>
> 	Error when communicating with the server.
>
> 	The preferences backend is currently unavailable and your  
> preferences have not been loaded. You may continue to use the system  
> with default preferences.
>
> It is not clear to me whether they are related, although they do  
> usually occur almost simultaneously. When I look at the  
> Apache/MySQL/PHP logs, nothing suspicious seems to be going on and I  
> do have a horde_prefs table. test.php shows all (required)  
> dependencies are present. Looking at the Horde log files also does  
> not give me any clue. On the other hand, I have little experience in  
> these matters, so it is entirely likely that I am missing something.
>
> I would be grateful if a person knowledgeable about Horde  
> installations could help me diagnose this problem.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik

There *has* to be something in the log files if Horde is not able to  
connect to your preference backend (probably SQL?).
-- 
Jan Schneider
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