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installation stuck on "Building database schema..."


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rgl

7 Posts

13 September 2007 at 5:08am

Edited: 13/09/2007 5:10am

I am attempting to install Silverstripe; however, the installation process stuck on "Building database schema..." and would not proceed any further.

My setup is as follows:
- Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring (GNOME interface - shouldn't matter though)
- Apache 2, PHP 5.2.1, MySQL 5.0.37, installed using built-in software installation management utility
- silverstripe tarball uncompress directory onto /var/www/html, with all previous subdirectories eliminated - that is, index.html, index.php, etc. are directly on /var/www/html and access by just http://localhost via the web browser
- owner:group of /var/www/html and all files/sub-subdirectories below are apache:apache
- all status indicates green/OK on the install.php page prior to clicking "Install SilverStripe" button.

What are the ways to eliminate this problem? I am using SilverStripe 2.0.2b - the latest available on the website.

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Sigurd

Forum Moderator, 628 Posts

13 September 2007 at 7:52am

Any idea on the CPU and RAM of the machine? We get this happening from time to time, so your specs would be useful. I wonder if it is just a memory/CPU-intenstive operation that isn't playing nicely with the machine?

You should be able to either visit the homepage of your site, or run /db/build to progress through the installation bit by bit...

e.g. try visiting the base page of your site, and it has errors, visit

<your website root>/db/build

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rgl

7 Posts

13 September 2007 at 8:40am

Edited: 13/09/2007 8:46am

Hi:

The setup is inside a virtualized environment within VMWare Workstation 6.0:
- based CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
- VM profile: VMWare Workstation 5.x compatible, ESX compatible
- RAM given to VM: 384MB (there is a Linux swap partition of equilvent size in the vm)
- file system: xfs (don't think whether that matters)
- VMWare-tools: installed and working

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Sigurd

Forum Moderator, 628 Posts

13 September 2007 at 5:34pm

Thanks.

Did you try my ideas above ?

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rgl

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15 September 2007 at 8:21am

I screwed up the VM (something unreleated to Silverstripe) so I have to reinstall the VM from scratch. I'll try installing Silverstripe again; I'll also be trying out different Linux distros to see if it makes a difference.

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rgl

7 Posts

26 September 2007 at 1:24pm

I finally got Silverstripe installed - this time around I used Fedora 7 (I chose F7 because it has the latest PHP versions as recommended by SS). I'll share my experience in another posting.

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Sigurd

Forum Moderator, 628 Posts

26 September 2007 at 1:40pm

Glad to hear! :)

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paddimac

Community Member, 4 Posts

12 March 2008 at 9:15am

Solution: I am using Plesk 8.3 and have struggled all day, but after monitoring the errors in the error_log file: tail -f <real_path>/<domain>/statistics/logs/error_log, I discovered that the issue is because of the open_basedir.

I followed the solution here to change the basdir: http://kb.swsoft.com/article_41_432_en.html and it worked. Hallejah!