SID-00791: Error when installing MailerContrib on 4.1

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.0	Perl version:	v5.8.6 built for sun4-solaris
Category:	MailerContrib	Server OS:	Solaris 5.8	Last update:	15 years ago

Hi.

I searched for this issue, but didn't find it. I'm currently running version 4.1 and looking to enable mailnotify. When installing the MailerContrib plugin from the configure page, I get the following error. I also was unable to find the tar file to download in order to manually install.

Fetching http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/MailerContrib/MailerContrib.tgz... Unpacking... data/ data/TWiki/

Note: Existing data/TWiki/MailerContrib.txt overwritten. Backup saved in /var/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/data/TWiki/MailerContrib.txt.bak lib/ lib/TWiki/ lib/TWiki/Contrib/ lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/UpData.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/UpData.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/WebNotify.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/WebNotify.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Subscription.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Subscription.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Constants.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Constants.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/TopicContext.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/TopicContext.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Change.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Change.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Subscriber.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Subscriber.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Config.spec overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/Config.spec.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/CompatibilityHacks.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib/CompatibilityHacks.pm.bak

Note: Existing lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib.pm overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib.pm.bak

Note: Existing MailerContrib_installer overwritten. Backup saved in /export/home/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/MailerContrib_installer.bak pub/ pub/TWiki/ pub/TWiki/MailerContrib/ pub/TWiki/MailerContrib/wikiringlogo20x20.png pub/TWiki/MailerContrib/logo.gif templates/ templates/newsletter.tmpl templates/mailnotify.tmpl tools/ tools/mailnotify Error: Failed to move file 'pub/TWiki/MailerContrib/' to /var/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/pub/TWiki/MailerContrib/: Invalid argument Content-type: text/html Software error:

Installation terminated at /var/www/htdocs/groups/cad-twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 149.

Any assistance you could provide would be very helpful or if you could point me to the tar file to download, that would be fine as well.

Thank you. Anne Bourgeois

-- AnneBourgeois - 2010-03-22

Discussion and Answer

Not sure what went wrong, possibly a permission/file ownership issue? You can install a package manually:

• Download the MailerContrib.zip from the MailerContrib repository page on twiki.org
• Copy .zip file to temporary location on twiki server
• Unzip it. This will create data, pub, lib subdirectories
• Fix ownership of all files in the temp location to be owned by Apache webserver user, such as: chown -R apache.pache *
• Move the unzipped files over to your twiki installlation, while preserving the directory structure. For example, move /tmp/MailerContrib/data/TWiki/MailerContrib.txt to /path/to/your/twiki/data/TWiki/MailerContrib.txt

The MailerContrib is part of the TWiki distribution, there is no need to install a new version unless you depend on new features.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-22

Thank you. That tar file worked perfectly.

-- AnneBourgeois - 2010-03-22

I am glad it worked out. Closing the question.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-22

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