Error creating user

Emoncms Installation
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Tried a few times installing and reinstalling emoncms locally on lubuntu 18 with php 7.2. I had to install mcrypt manually because its now deprecated and not part of versions 7.2 and greater.

I thought that this was the problem when trying to signin for the first time on emoncms locally but I’m always getting the error creating user message no MATTER what I try and I went through all the possible solutions that were proposed recently and still no luck …

Does anyone have any idea what next can be tried ??

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Which branch of the emoncms repo are you using?

The linux guide instructs you to clone the “stable” branch, can you try the “master” branch?

See the Local emoncms installation - apache configuration "permission denied" - #6 by Lykke thread and the Emoncms "Error creating user" thread.

There were some changes made 12th Feb that have not filtered through to the stable branch yet.

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I did the latest one and also I changed the branches as indicated in the previous posts but to no avail …

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And did you try using “update database” from the admin page after switching branches? There is a difference in the mysql schemas.

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I can’t get to the admin page …

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Oh yeah!

I wonder if you drop all the tables via the mysql commandline or phpmyadmin, then try creating a first user from the master branch would work?

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The fix I was refering to is now in both the master and the stable branch, but it may be that a prior attempt to create a user will block the fix as the table will already be created.

If you cannot drop the tables to start a fresh, you may need to try starting over again.

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Also see the Problems login in after emonCMS update due to the email_verified column in users table - #2 by TrystanLea thread as @trystan has suggested a way around the “not able to log in to update the database” problem.