New First User Creation Error

frlinux · 2018-07-04T14:16:44.396Z

Hijacking this. Seeing this error too. I am using NGINX with https letsencrypt certs. It complains about mixed content not being loaded for security. When I disable security for my site and allow it to load the JS scripts, creating the first user also gives me that Object Object error.

No logs in emoncms.log or NGINX but the web console is screaming. Sorry for the messages in French, this is where i currently am. Though error messages should be straight forward. This is on Firefox.

L’utilisation d’XMLHttpRequest de façon synchrone sur le fil d’exécution principal est obsolète à cause de     son impact négatif sur la navigation de l’utilisateur final. Consulter http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ pour plus d’informations.
jquery-1.11.3.min.js:5:25377
Chargement du contenu mixte actif « http://xxx/user/register.json » (non sécurisé) sur une page sécurisée[En savoir plus]
login:1:778
Blocage d’une requête multiorigines (Cross-Origin Request) : la politique « Same Origin » ne permet pas de consulter la ressource distante située sur http://xxxx/user/register.json. Raison : l’en-tête CORS « Access-  Control-Allow-Origin » est manquant.

Got curious, tried with Chrome and also got Object Object with the following message in the web console:

jquery-1.11.3.min.js:5 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://xxxx/user/login#' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://xxxx/user/register.json'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.

frlinux · 2018-07-04T14:40:27.980Z

Disabling https still has problems, when trying to create the new user, I get:

[Deprecation] Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.
send @ jquery-1.11.3.min.js:5
ajax @ jquery-1.11.3.min.js:5
register @ user.js?v=1:29
register @ login:259
(anonymous) @ login:214
dispatch @ jquery-1.11.3.min.js:4
r.handle @ jquery-1.11.3.min.js:4

My git clone is from today: OpenEnergyMonitor.org | 9.8.31 | 2018.06.21

borpin · 2018-07-04T15:10:37.422Z

frlinux:

My git clone is from today: OpenEnergyMonitor.org | 9.8.31 | 2018.06.21

Which branch (not that I can help but others will need to know )?

frlinux · 2018-07-04T15:18:18.780Z

Whichever was selected when I copied the link from the main page, guessing master?

borpin · 2018-07-04T16:54:31.676Z

git -C /var/www/emoncms/ status (with the right path) will confirm the branch.

frlinux · 2018-07-04T19:16:49.601Z

Indeed

$ git -C . status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

frlinux · 2018-07-04T19:26:09.956Z

Tried stable too, same error.

frlinux · 2018-07-16T04:53:59.222Z

Anyone?

bart.ellast · 2018-07-19T18:25:22.930Z

I am unable to login to any user, old or new. This happened during one of the last updates!
I am now on 9.8.31, no errors are seen in any of the logs…

borpin · 2018-07-19T20:09:50.649Z

Try a database update using the script.

Cannot login after updating to 9.8.29 (master branch) Emoncms

The solution was to copy the ‘emoncmsdbupdate.php’ text into a file (in the home directory), make it executeable and run it. Might be worth adding this to the useful scripts repository rather than exclusively in the emonpi repository. Even better would be to provide a link in the error message so you could just click it.

bart.ellast · 2018-07-20T13:30:10.266Z

I tried that script, i got an output of a change it made to the database, when I run it again nothing happens so I guess it worked.
It does however not solve my problems.
When I try to log in, it loads to the login prompt again, no errors anywhere.

anna_carboncoop · 2018-07-21T15:13:04.567Z

I am also getting this error with a blank EmonCMS setup - can’t log in at all (after registering an initial user).

EDIT: Issue fixed. I submitted pull request 931 and it has now been accepted.

bart.ellast · 2018-07-24T17:49:16.001Z

@anna_carboncoop Thanks a LOT! This change fixed my login issues!!

dmudo · 2018-09-19T18:37:52.895Z

I was unable to implement this fix, but I still have the same problem with the first access to emoncms.

Can anyone help?

borpin · 2018-09-20T09:31:54.329Z

dmudo:

I was unable to implement this fix

Which fix?

What exactly are the symptoms and what have you tried? What system are you on?

dmudo · 2018-09-20T11:39:15.217Z

Hello

I’ve used the git installation guide:

github.com

emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/docs/LinuxInstall.md

**To install emoncms on Debian see new installation script approach: https://github.com/openenergymonitor/EmonScripts**

---

# Archived: Install Emoncms on Ubuntu / Debian Linux

This guide should work on most debian systems including Ubuntu. For installation guide on installing emoncms on a raspberrypi see the [RaspberryPi installation guides](RaspberryPi/readme.md).

## Install dependencies

You may need to start by updating the system repositories

    sudo apt-get update

**For Ubuntu 16.04:**

*PHP7*

    sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server mysql-client php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-pear php-dev php-mcrypt php-json git-core redis-server build-essential php7.0-mbstring -y

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My environment is an Amazon EC2 Debian Linux.

On the first access, the error message “[object Object]”

So much to create a create a user or login.

pb66 · 2018-09-20T11:53:11.267Z

Could you try updating emoncms again (master branch) and retry? There has been some new code merged today that might fix this, you may need to clear the browser cache too.

(Ref fix for #791 & refactor and fix bugs in dbschemasetup by takkaria · Pull Request #930 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub and Remove null=true from database schema, fixing #1016 by takkaria · Pull Request #1018 · emoncms/emoncms · GitHub)

dmudo · 2018-09-27T18:21:57.222Z

I tried the upgrade procedure. But it did not work.

I deleted all previous installation, and installed again, but still presenting the error in the login:

[object Object]

I also performed the procedure:

5.1) If you can not login
If you can not login, use the authentication bypass to run the updater.

Add the following line to the bottom of settings.php to enable special database update only, be sure to remove this line from settings.php once complete:

$ updatelogin = true;
In your internet browser open the admin / db page to launch the database update script.

http: // localhost / emoncms / admin / db

I did not succeed!

I’ll be grateful if anyone can help.

borpin · 2018-09-28T06:32:17.159Z

Did you pull the master or stable branch?

Is there anything in the emoncms log?

Did you try New First User Creation Error - #12 by borpin fix?

TrystanLea · 2018-10-01T07:49:10.876Z

Looking into this, the only way I can reproduce the error is if I disable Apache modrewrite, which results in the login screen not being able to find the user/login api end point.

I have now added further error catching to the login screen to display a more useful message:

github.com/emoncms/emoncms

catch 404 error on login

committed 07:46AM - 01 Oct 18 UTC

+13 -5

It either displays a 404 error with a suggestion to check modrewrite or it prints the status code and error message if the error is not a 404.

@dmudo can you check that modrewrite is configured on your system?