I have a fresh install of Gentoo Linux which I have used for nearly 20 years now. I have been using Drupal 7 and 8 for about 6 years, and have converted to Backdrop last year. I use Drush and the command line mostly.
I have this error when clicking the 'Save and Continue' button on the first page which I cannot find on the Forum at all.
Error: Call to a member function name() on boolean in install_settings_form() (line 984 of /PATH/TO/backdrop.local/core/includes/install.core.inc).
I have created a fresh install of Backdrop, so have downloaded the zip file and extracted into backdrop.local folder, created the Virtual Host as usual and gone to html://backdrop.local in the browser. Select Language as English, and click the 'Save and Continue' button. If I use Drush (my preferred method) I have the same error.
There are no errors in the Apache Logs, and the access log shows no problems:
127.0.0.1 - - [04/Mar/2020:09:06:55 +0000] "POST /core/install.php HTTP/1.1" 302 - "http://backdrop.local/core/install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Mar/2020:09:06:55 +0000] "GET /core/install.php?langcode=en HTTP/1.1" 302 - "http://backdrop.local/core/install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Mar/2020:09:06:55 +0000] "GET /core/install.php?langcode=en&profile=standard HTTP/1.1" 500 3137 "http://backdrop.local/core/install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0"
Help would be appreciated.
Comments
The
Call to a member function name() on boolean
error seems to refer to this line ininstall_settings_form()
:$form['driver']['#options']['mysql'] = $driver->name();
It's trying to call the
name()
function, but it's being called on a boolean rather than an object. This means that$driver
should be an object, but is a boolean instead.$driver
is set just above that line with:$driver = backdrop_load_database_driver();
backdrop_load_database_driver()
is therefore returningFALSE
in your case which implies that there's an issue with your database. What database are you using? Note that only MySQL/MariaDB are supported in Backdrop, unlike Drupal: https://backdropcms.org/requirements@BWPanda I have just been looking at that line in the install.core.inc file
I think I have spotted the problem, I have not compiled php with mysql, only mysqli, so I am going to recompile with mysql USE Flag and I think that will cure it.
I will let you know later how I get on. I have a problem with a module compiling which I will have to fix first.
BINGO!!!! Anyway I fixed my own problem.
Sorry to bother you all.