"Argument 1 passed to..." error after upgrading from beta 7.

holyfuzz

luceos Please post the contents of your composer.json file.

Sure:

walt@cosmoteer-test:~/www/forum.cosmoteer.net$ cat composer.json
{
    "name": "flarum/flarum",
    "description": "Delightfully simple forum software.",
    "type": "project",
    "keywords": ["forum", "discussion"],
    "homepage": "https://flarum.org/",
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Toby Zerner",
            "email": "toby.zerner@gmail.com"
        },
        {
            "name": "Franz Liedke",
            "email": "franz@develophp.org"
        }
    ],
    "support": {
        "issues": "https://github.com/flarum/core/issues",
        "source": "https://github.com/flarum/flarum",
        "docs": "https://flarum.org/docs/"
    },
    "require": {
        "flarum/core": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/approval": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/auth-facebook": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/auth-github": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/auth-twitter": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/bbcode": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/emoji": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/lang-english": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/flags": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/likes": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/lock": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/markdown": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/mentions": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/pusher": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/statistics": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/sticky": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/subscriptions": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/suspend": "^0.1.0",
        "flarum/tags": "^0.1.0"
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true
    },
    "minimum-stability": "beta",
    "prefer-stable": true
}

luceos

delete vendor and composer.lock then try installing again using composer install --prefer-dist -a

holyfuzz

luceos delete vendor and composer.lock then try installing again using composer install --prefer-dist -a

Done, but I'm still getting the error.

luceos

holyfuzz how much disk space do you have left?

holyfuzz

luceos how much disk space do you have left?

About 20 GB.

holyfuzz

Just a reminder in case it's relevant: A fresh Flarum install works fine, but if I then point that fresh install to my old DB and run migrate on it, that's when I start getting the error. Could there maybe be some leftover data in my DB from some old extensions that is causing the error, or something like that?

holyfuzz

Bump. Anyone have any more ideas for what might be going wrong here? Thanks!

luceos

Does running php flarum cache:clear throw any errors?

holyfuzz

luceos Nope, it just prints Clearing the cache... in green and nothing else.

luceos

holyfuzz sending you an email

holyfuzz

For anyone else with this issue, here's what the problem was for me and the very easy solution. (Thanks to @luceos for help verifying that my database was NOT the problem.)

The issue that php flarum cache:clear fails silently if it runs into permissions problems when deleting cache files. On my server, Flarum saves cache files using the www-data user, which php flarum cache:clear can't delete when I run it under my regular SSH user, leaving the cache only partially-cleared and my Flarum install non-operational.

So if you run into this problem, try simply running sudo flarum cache:clear (or whatever command that is required to run php with elevated permissions on your OS/distro), which solved the problem for me and got my forum working again.

jordanjay29

holyfuzz I'm really glad this got resolved. Can I mark it as such?

holyfuzz

jordanjay29 Yes! I am now happily on Beta 11 and going through upgrading my extensions and finding new ones. 😃