Spartacus & s9y v.1.3

blog.brockha.us · Post by **blog.brockha.us** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:53 pm

Hello.

A mate installed serendipity recently. Now he asked me: "Where are all the plugins?"

I looked into his admin shell and recognized: Spartacus is not installed. So I installed the version of spartacus, that was shiped with the s9y 1.3 version. This is spartacus v.2.9.

After installing with the default parameter (fetching from netmirror.org), there seem to be a problem. If I try to install new plugins, the list still contains the local found plugins only. Trying to update sidebar plugins doesn't show any updatable plugins. Trying to update event plugins spartacus even doesn't accomplish to show the pull down box:

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Ereignis-Plugins

Versuche URL package_event_de.xml zu öffnen...
235477 bytes von obiger URL geladen. Speichere Inhalt als /[directory]/serendipity/templates_c/package_event_de.xml...
Daten erfolgreich geladen.

That's all.

When switching from netmirror to s9y the update process for event plugins now finishes correctly at the dropdown input, but doesn't find any updatable plugins, too.

What is happening here and how do I fix this? Any idea?

azel · Post by **azel** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:17 pm

Do you know if your templates_c folder is writable?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:42 pm

Hi!

If your spartacus manager stops after the message about the package.xml file, that sounds as if a fatal PHP error happens. Can you check the persons php error log?

Also, like azel suggested, check if the templates_c directory contains the mentioned package.xml file and if it contains data.

My bet though is a fatal php error, maybe related due to missing XML extensions compiled into PHP. Just a guess, though.

Best regards,
Garvin

blog.brockha.us · Post by **blog.brockha.us** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:48 pm

Okay, I will check this..
But if this is the case, the message above is very misleading, don't you think? It declares the saving of the XML file as success..

blog.brockha.us · Post by **blog.brockha.us** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:33 pm

We found the solution. The php.ini file of that server reserved "only" 8MB to PHP scripts. This seems to be too less for Spartacus. After increasing the script memory, Spartacus is now working as expected. The s9y installer recommends 10MB and it seems, it has very well reasons for recommending this..