Cant update EmonCMS via GUI

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

I used the Proxmox Helper Scripts for mine.

[jamespreedy]

Ha, I do too.

I just did a fresh install of 22.04 LXC, just did updates and then used EmonScripts to install.

When going to the Admin/Update GUI page, the Update Log said that /var/log/emoncms/update.log was missing - so I created that with touch, and set the permissions to match a couple of the other logs in there.

➜  emoncms ls -al
total 19
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   root      5 Nov  6 18:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root syslog   25 Nov  6 18:25 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   2047 Nov  6 18:27 apache2-error.log
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root   1683 Nov  6 18:31 emoncms.log
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root      0 Nov  6 18:27 update.log

Anyway, interestingly Full Update, and Update Emoncms don’t seem to do anything on this clean install from the GUI …

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

Are all the services running?

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

I went back to my install post and noticed I created a user ‘pi’. I think there are some things lurking around that still have this as the hardcoded user

Changes to git stop some commands by the webserver to work

I have just created a new PVE Ubuntu 22.04 LXC in preparation to migrate my current LXC install to a new base OS. I created a use pi and added it to the SUDO users and it all installed fine. The issue is, I am not seeing any of the git info in the admin section After some digging about it seems this is a new ‘feature’ of git. Currently the PiOS version does not seem to be affected as it is still 2.20.2, Ubuntu git version is 2.34.1. I have raised a question on git 2.34.1 dubious ownership e…

[jamespreedy]

Yeah I learnt the pi mistake first time round when I couldn’t quite make everything work without it. This time aside from root, pi is the only user I created.

I also did a

sudo echo $USER' ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/$USER && sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/$USER

per the instructions on here.

I modified config.ini correctly I think and the install seemed to complete ok. I updated everything available with apt.

Services are running … (I need emonhub, but that can come later as I was just testing the update mechanism).

Including redis and service-runner

Command line update seemed to run fine

/opt/openenergymonitor/EmonScripts/update/service-runner-update.sh all

I feel like I’m missing something really obvious

Thanks again for all your help and suggestions!

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

@jamespreedy

I’m having some issues updating using the GUI - “Full Update”, “Update Emoncms” etc buttons don’t seem to do anything.

I note I’m having the same issue too… But using an emonpi!

@jamespreedy

From the CLI, if I run …

/opt/openenergymonitor/EmonScripts/update/service-runner-update.sh all

… then it runs just fine and updates correctly.

Ditto.

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

emoncms/emoncms/blob/8f49021/Modules/admin/admin_model.php#L847C1-L861C6

I wonder if the @ error suppression is hiding something…

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

[Thu Nov 07 19:13:02.390891 2024] [php:error] [pid 832:tid 832] [client 10.13.37.49:51949] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to private method Admin::runService() from global scope in /var/www/emoncms/Modules/admin/admin_controller.php:221
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/emoncms/core.php(80): admin_controller()
#1 /var/www/emoncms/index.php(257): controller()
#2 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/emoncms/Modules/admin/admin_controller.php on line 221, referer: http://10.13.37.11/admin/update
[Thu Nov 07 19:37:59.514183 2024] [php:error] [pid 1208:tid 1208] [client 10.13.37.49:56537] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to private method Admin::runService() from global scope in /var/www/emoncms/Modules/admin/admin_controller.php:221
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/emoncms/core.php(80): admin_controller()
#1 /var/www/emoncms/index.php(257): controller()
#2 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/emoncms/Modules/admin/admin_controller.php on line 221, referer: http://10.13.37.11/admin/update

@TrystanLea you made the function private, but it’s still seemingly called from elsewhere…

Release 11.6.8 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub is dated October 25

The prior linked commit is from October 8…

So if you were using master (or similar, rather than releases), that would’ve explained it as you would have had the commit.

EDIT: PR to revert making that private in admin_model.php: Make runService public again by reedy · Pull Request #1904 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub

Would need a release making, and a manual update on affected devices to bring it in.

[pev (David Peverley)]

@reedy

EDIT: PR to revert making that private in admin_model.php: Make runService public again by reedy · Pull Request #1904 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub

Just a note in this thread to add my +1 for this fix ; the same issue breaks both updating front end firmware and running serial config.

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

Just needs the version bumping and a release tagging…

[jamespreedy]

This is great, back up and running!
Thanks you to everyone for your help.

I’ve got some errors in the logs from when using the GUI that I don’t get when running via CLI.

Appreciate that I should really start a new thread with this, but I was wondering if it might be a quick fix?

I’m getting a lot of git permission denied errors e.g.

error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

fatal: Unable to create '/var/www/emoncms/Modules/app/.git/index.lock': Permission denied
fatal: Unable to create '/var/www/emoncms/Modules/config/.git/index.lock': Permission denied
fatal: Unable to create '/var/www/emoncms/Modules/dashboard/.git/index.lock': Permission denied

etc etc

Would someone please do me a favour and let me know what permissions all the .git folders and contents should have? Example below.

drwxrwxr-x  8 pi pi  4096 Nov  8 21:02 .git

➜  .git git:(stable) ls -al
total 72
drwxrwxr-x  8 pi pi  4096 Nov  8 21:02 .
drwxrwxr-x  8 pi pi  4096 Oct 12 20:22 ..
-rw-rw-rw-  1 pi pi  1698 Nov  8 21:38 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi    23 Nov  8 21:02 HEAD
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi    41 Oct 12 20:24 ORIG_HEAD
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi pi  4096 May 18 20:51 branches
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi   259 May 18 20:51 config
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi    73 May 18 20:51 description
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi pi  4096 May 18 20:51 hooks
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi 11118 Nov  8 21:02 index
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi pi  4096 May 18 20:51 info
drwxrwxr-x  3 pi pi  4096 May 18 20:51 logs
drwxrwxr-x 51 pi pi  4096 Nov  8 21:02 objects
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi pi  4994 May 18 20:51 packed-refs
drwxrwxr-x  5 pi pi  4096 May 18 20:51 refs

Thank you!

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

pi@emonpi:~ $ ls -al /var/www/emoncms/Modules/app/.git
total 72
drwxr-xr-x   8 pi pi  4096 Nov  7 19:09 .
drwxr-xr-x   8 pi pi  4096 Oct  1 04:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 branches
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi   259 Feb  1  2024 config
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi    73 Feb  1  2024 description
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi  1698 Nov  7 19:09 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi    23 Nov  7 19:09 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x   2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 hooks
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi 11118 Nov  7 19:09 index
drwxr-xr-x   2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 info
drwxr-xr-x   3 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 logs
drwxr-xr-x 119 pi pi  4096 Nov  7 19:09 objects
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi    41 Oct 10 17:49 ORIG_HEAD
-rw-r--r--   1 pi pi  4598 Sep 20 18:13 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x   5 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 refs
pi@emonpi:~ $ ls -al /var/www/emoncms/Modules/config/.git/
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 8 pi pi 4096 Nov  7 19:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 branches
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  262 Feb  1  2024 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   73 Feb  1  2024 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  313 Nov  7 19:09 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   23 Nov  7 19:09 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  960 Nov  7 19:09 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 logs
drwxr-xr-x 8 pi pi 4096 Nov  7 19:09 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   41 Jun 16 01:47 ORIG_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1329 Feb  1  2024 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 pi pi 4096 Feb  1  2024 refs
pi@emonpi:~ $ ls -al /var/www/emoncms/Modules/dashboard/.git
total 72
drwxr-xr-x  8 pi pi  4096 Nov  7 19:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 pi pi  4096 Nov  7 19:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 branches
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   265 Feb  1  2024 config
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi    73 Feb  1  2024 description
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   343 Nov  7 19:09 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi    23 Nov  7 19:09 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 hooks
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 12642 Nov  7 19:09 index
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 info
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 logs
drwxr-xr-x 42 pi pi  4096 Nov  7 19:09 objects
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi    41 Jul 19 22:43 ORIG_HEAD
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  2359 Feb  1  2024 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x  5 pi pi  4096 Feb  1  2024 refs

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

I’m guessing apache2 should run as www-data…

Does it do a sudo type command somewhere when running the update scripts to run it as pi?

[jamespreedy]

Thanks Sam, no idea lol.

My updates now run from the GUI, so I’ll open a separate thread with respect to the Permission Denied errors.

Thanks again everyone - much appreciated!

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

Just to note this has been merged to 11.6.8

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

I have just updated a 22.04 system (via the CLI) and now it doesn’t react to the CLI update button.

@TrystanLea

I removed the solved

I’m not seeing anything in the Apache log (ever)!

[edit]
@TrystanLea - seems this wasn’t merged before creating 11.6.8.

root@emoncms:/var/www/emoncms# git status -v
On branch stable
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/stable'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
root@emoncms:/var/www/emoncms# git log
commit 982d3ca6ddbf336998465cf338822acb71bc6d29 (HEAD -> stable, tag: 11.6.8, origin/stable)
Author: Trystan Lea <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 25 17:34:44 2024 +0100

    fix missing apikey rawdata and realtime graphs

commit 0cbcea975d381ed9bb45f4970f6a3d7966444530 (tag: 11.6.7)
Author: Trystan Lea <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 8 19:52:15 2024 +0100

    update version

commit 8f49021cacfb3d3c6c81ebf8f90a1558ee268788
Author: Trystan Lea <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 8 19:50:59 2024 +0100

    fix

HOWEVER anyone who has updated can never update again without SSHing into their system

I suggest it needs some clear instructions on how to run the update from the CLI!

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

Release 11.6.8 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub was tagged on October 25, 2024.

2 commits to master since this release

Comparing 11.6.8...master · emoncms/emoncms

This fix isn’t in there.

On Releases · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub it’s just a more public “release” rather than “just” a git tag.

[TrystanLea]

I’ve updated stable to match master. That was the issue right?

[reedy (Sam Reed)]

If most people are tracking stable, yeah, that should do it…

Just some people will need to manually cli update if they already got the broken version

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

@TrystanLea

I’ve updated stable to match master.

And created a new release?