@Friendica Support

Site offline with 500 Internal Server Error after update from 2024.12 to 2026.01.

Hi there,
after succesfully updating the site several several times lately, trying to get it to run friendica stable the last update just got stuck.
Calling the site gives 500 error message.
In a first attempt to trouble shoot the situation I did the follwoing.
I stopped the cron job by quoting out the respective crontab -e line.
Than I tried to set the site into maintanence mode by using the description as detailed in https://forum.friendi.ca/help/admin/migrate:

bin/console maintenance 1 "We are currently upgrading our system and will be back soon."

SSH wrote:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class "Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher" not found in/src/Event/EventDispatcher.php:19
Stack trace:
#0 /vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(444): include()
#1 /vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(322): Composer\Autoload\includeFile()
#2 [internal function]: Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader->loadClass()
#3 /vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(73): is_subclass_of()
#4 /vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(53): Dice\Dice->getRule()
#5 /vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(47): Dice\Dice->addRuleTo()
#6 /src/Core/DiceContainer.php(25): Dice\Dice->addRules()
#7 /bin/console.php(21): Friendica\Core\DiceContainer::fromBasePath()
#8 {main}
thrown in /src/Event/EventDispatcher.php on line 19

As update procedure I used the standard procedure:
git fetch
git checkout
Your branch is behind 'origin/stable' by 2025 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
git pull
cd addon
git fetch
git checkout
Your branch is behind 'origin/stable' by 226 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
git pull

Any idea what I can do to solve this?

@Hypolite Petovan

Blank pages should have a related Fatal Error in the PHP log.

Uncaught Exception ValueError: "DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Argument #1 ($source) must not be empty" at /../domaincom/src/Model/Item.php line 3558
exception

Hi !Friendica Support

I set up a Friendica server couple days ago. We have seen couple times a problem where an image attached to a post is visible only to the author of the post. This doesn't happen all the time or for all the images, but has happened to multiple users. If the image is shown broken once, it will stay broken. All the users are on the same server.

- As far as I know, this has happened only in private posts.
- Same person has posted both an image I can see and an image I can't see.
- As the author can see the image in the post, the data definitely is on the server and even accessible from the UI.
- Editing the post and re-adding the image didn't fix the problem.

The error message shown when trying to open a broken image is:

Not Found

The Photo with id 1181454791679d39a348725148987421 is not available.

#0 /var/www/html/src/BaseModule.php(230): Friendica\Module\Photo->rawContent()
#1 /var/www/html/src/Module/BaseApi.php(95): Friendica\BaseModule->run()
#2 /var/www/html/src/App.php(668): Friendica\Module\BaseApi->run()
#3 /var/www/html/index.php(32): Friendica\App->runFrontend()
#4 {main}

Request: 679debda529e1

Server info:
This is Friendica, version 2024.12 that is running at the web location https://capybara.community. The database version is 1576/1576, the post update version is 1550/1550.

Any ideas what could be wrong or how to continue debugging this?

(I'll be able to investigate this now for couple hours. After that I'll have to come back to this on Monday.)

!Friendica Support
I had my first-ever server crash of https://my-place.social. This is in syslog:

2024-11-18T21:34:49.022603-05:00 my-place php: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Too many connections in /var/www/html/src/Database/Database.php:201
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022822-05:00 my-place php: Stack trace:
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022855-05:00 my-place php: #0 /var/www/html/src/Database/Database.php(201): mysqli->__construct()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022885-05:00 my-place php: #1 /var/www/html/src/Database/Database.php(106): Friendica\Database\Database->connect()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022911-05:00 my-place php: #2 [internal function]: Friendica\Database\Database->__construct()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022933-05:00 my-place php: #3 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(132): ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022958-05:00 my-place php: #4 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(96): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.022985-05:00 my-place php: #5 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(247): Dice\Dice->create()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023014-05:00 my-place php: #6 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(132): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023049-05:00 my-place php: #7 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(96): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023074-05:00 my-place php: #8 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(247): Dice\Dice->create()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023100-05:00 my-place php: #9 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(132): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023125-05:00 my-place php: #10 /var/www/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(96): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023147-05:00 my-place php: #11 /var/www/html/index.php(34): Dice\Dice->create()
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023172-05:00 my-place php: #12 {main}
2024-11-18T21:34:49.023208-05:00 my-place php: thrown in /var/www/html/src/Database/Database.php on line 201

show variables like 'max_connections'; shows 151 max_connections.

I did: SET GLOBAL max_connections = 200;

I also edited /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf and set max_connections = 200

Is this too high? Too low? Did I do this the correct way?

Thank you!

Thanks!

Uppsi.
The Server works so far, but going to /admon/site throws an error:
---
Service Unavailable

unable to create directory /var/www/friendica/view/smarty3/compiled/58/70/d1

Exception thrown in /var/www/friendica/src/Core/Renderer.php:90
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/friendica/src/Module/Admin/Site.php(592): Friendica\Core\Renderer::replaceMacros('file:/var/www/f...', Array)
#1 /var/www/friendica/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\Module\Admin\Site->content(Array)
#2 /var/www/friendica/src/App.php(711): Friendica\BaseModule->run(Object(Friendica\Module\Special\HTTPException), Array)
#3 /var/www/friendica/index.php(55): Friendica\App->runFrontend(Object(Friendica\App\Router), Object(Friendica\Core\PConfig\Type\JitPConfig), Object(Friendica\Security\Authentication), Object(Friendica\App\Page), Object(Friendica\Content\Nav), Object(Friendica\Module\Special\HTTPException), Object(Friendica\Util\HTTPInputData), 1702744026.4542, Array)
#4 {main}

Request: 657dcfda7165b
---
BTW. Sorry for not using some formatting (e.g., for code), but currently, I'm running from a live Slax on an ancient laptop with an exotic German keyboard.

New error message (of FRIO) about a folder created by the user root.

I haven't found the extensive conversation about this problem with @Hypolite Petovan yet but I'm quite sure that I changed all folders to ownership of user www-data before 28th of November of the smarty folder. Actually there was another conversation about ownership of folders and I changed all folders to be owned by root except storage and view that day on 02:45hs, the new folder owned by root at /view/smarty3/compiled/ like stated below was created on 3:50hs.

As for what I remember of all the conversations this shouldn't have happened.

<?php
/* Smarty version 4.3.1, created on 2023-11-28 03:50:02
  from '7cd2693513597460a71347ba02d3179c5e5ab822' */
/* @var Smarty_Internal_Template $_smarty_tpl */
if ($_smarty_tpl->_decodeProperties($_smarty_tpl, array (
  'version' => '4.3.1',
  'unifunc' => 'content_6565636a645732_50647552',
  'has_nocache_code' => false,
  'file_dependency' => 
  array (
  ),
  'includes' => 
  array (
  ),
),false)) {
function content_6565636a645732_50647552 (Smarty_Internal_Template $_smarty_tpl) {
?>[url=https://tupambae.org/profile/utopiarte]utopiArte[/url] replied to you on [url=https://tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-1065-6562-6405-8bb240314547]"bugreport - can't answer, like or reshare posts"[/url]<?p>

@Friendica Support

#bugResearch

hi there, I have this message in my php.error.log

what should I do?

I didn't have a look at gitHub

@utzer [Friendica]
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your recomandation:
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btw, this is what they state about the debian options:

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The server and client certificates are automatically generated and the client file sent via email to the customer after. Runs on port 443, which is almost always accessible. All logging is sent to /dev/null and DNS queries are made on the same server.

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!Friendica Support
https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install
So I am stuck at the create a database point. I can't tell if they just told me, create a database without telling me how or if this helped create a database. I went with B and here were the resutls. Are there peices missing or are these warnings ok for the system we are using?

$ bin/console autoinstall -v
PHP Warning: Module "curl" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "gd" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "mbstring" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
Executable: /home/anubis2814/mywebsite/bin/console.php
Arguments: array (
0 => 'autoinstall',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 1,
)
Command: autoinstall
Initializing setup...
PHP Warning: Module "curl" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "gd" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "mbstring" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "curl" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "gd" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "mbstring" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
Complete!

Checking environment...
PHP Warning: Module "curl" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "gd" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "mbstring" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "curl" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "gd" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module "mbstring" is already loaded in Unknown on line 0
NOTICE: Not checking .htaccess/URL-Rewrite during CLI installation.

[Error] --------
GNU Multiple Precision PHP module: Error: GNU Multiple Precision PHP module required but not installed.

[Backtrace]:
#0 /home/anubis2814/mywebsite/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\Console\AutomaticInstallation->doExecute()
#1 /home/anubis2814/mywebsite/src/Core/Console.php(163): Asika\SimpleConsole\Console->execute()
#2 /home/anubis2814/mywebsite/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\Core\Console->doExecute()
#3 /home/anubis2814/mywebsite/bin/console.php(41): Asika\SimpleConsole\Console->execute()
#4 {main}

• Die ersten fünf Notices sind das Umschalten auf PHP 7.4.
  
• Dann kommt die erste Warnung beim Aufruf der Friendica-Login-Seite, gefolgt von acht weiteren Warnungen.
  
• Der Zyklus von insgesamt neun Warnungen wiederholt sich fünf mal identisch, es sind also insgesamt sechs Zyklen mit je neun Warnungen.
  
• Nun wird im Browser der 500er-Error von vorhin angezeigt.

[10-Feb-2022 21:34:31] NOTICE: configuration file /opt/uberspace/etc/snila/php-fpm.conf test is successful
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:31] NOTICE: using inherited socket fd=3, "/run/php-fpm-snila.sock"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:31] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 24296
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:31] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:31] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34 Europe/Berlin] PHP Notice: Undefined index: Psr\Log\NullLogger in /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php on line 134"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34 Europe/Berlin] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 3 passed to Friendica\Database\Database::__construct() must implement interface PsrExt\Log\LoggerInterface, instance of Friendica\Core\Logger\Factory\Logger given in /var/www/virtual/snila/html/src/Database/Database.php:76"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "Stack trace:"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#0 [internal function]: Friendica\Database\Database->__construct(Object(Friendica\Core\Config\ValueObject\Cache), Object(Friendica\Util\Profiler), Object(Friendica\Core\Logger\Factory\Logger))"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#1 /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(132): ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs(Object(Friendica\Database\Database), Array)"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#2 /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(96): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}(Array, Array)"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#3 /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(247): Dice\Dice->create('Friendica\\Datab...', Array, Array)"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#4 /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(149): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}(Array, Array)"
[10-Feb-2022 21:34:34] WARNING: [pool www] child 24331 said into stderr: "#5 /var/www/virtual/snila/html/vendor/level-2/dice/Dice.php(96): Dice\Dice->Dice\{closure}(Arra in /var/www/virtual/snila/html/src/Database/Database.php on line 76"