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[resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #218]

Wed, 09 November 2005 02:15

kristeta126 is currently offline

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Please help.

I am trying to follow the installation instructions. I get to the part where I must pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com, and I get this message:

Discovery of channel "pear.symfony-project.com" failed.

I have PEAR Version: 1.4.4. Please help. Confused

Confused

I really want to try using symfony. Thanks!

Maricris

[Updated on: Fri, 03 March 2006 10:58] by Moderator

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #228 is a reply to message #218 ]

Wed, 09 November 2005 16:11

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I think that I am having a similar issue. I can get the channel to discover but then when I do the install I get the following message:

Notice: Array to string conversion in PEAR/REST/10.php on line 77

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in PEAR/REST/10.php on line 79
PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /usr/share/php5/PEAR/PEAR/REST/10.php on line 233

any ideas?

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #236 is a reply to message #228 ]

Wed, 09 November 2005 17:02

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Do you have the latest PEAR (1.4.4)?

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #238 is a reply to message #236 ]

Wed, 09 November 2005 17:09

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Here is what I have:

PEAR Version: 1.4.4
PHP Version: 5.0.4
Zend Engine Version: 2.0.4-dev
Running on: Linux 2.6.13-15-default #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 i686

Thanks for any help that you can provide.

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #271 is a reply to message #236 ]

Thu, 10 November 2005 00:53

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Thanks for all the advices. Razz

Razz

I finally managed to install symfony. I am now trying to start my own project.

I updated my specs to:

  PHP 5.0.5 (cli) (built: Nov 9 2005 11:08:48)
  Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The Php Group 
  Zend Engine v2.0.5, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

Thanks again. I hope to learn more on the use of symfony.

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #982 is a reply to message #218 ]

Sun, 11 December 2005 07:48

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Kristela126,

Could you please tell us how you solved your problem? I am having the same channel-discover problem. Is the Symfony pear server down?

Nathan.

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #1829 is a reply to message #982 ]

Tue, 17 January 2006 14:21

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Nathan,

Make sure you check your pear configuration using pear config-show. If you are using a proxy, be sure to set the http_proxy option first so that you can channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

Sorry for the extremely late reply. I hope this will also help others.

Kristeta126

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #2552 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 09 February 2006 14:54

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I had the same issue. Strangely, although my browser goes through a proxy on port 8080, http_proxy in pear needed to be port 80 instead. Naturally it depends on your local configuration, so play around with the proxy setting until the channel-discover command doesn't return an error.

OK, ignore the above. I was running PEAR/PEAR.php rather than PEAR/pearcmd.php as I should have been. I'll keep on trying various combinations, it's probably our corp firewall...

[Updated on: Thu, 09 February 2006 15:08]

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #2553 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 09 February 2006 15:17

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Arrgghh

Mad

Right, I have tried lots of combinations to make this work. I am using PHP5 on Windows XP:

PHP 5.1.2 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2006 16:40:00)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

... and pear channel-discover keeps on reporting as "failed". Is there a log or verbose mode I can turn on to determine a more exact problem? I've tried setting -v before 'channel-discover' in the command, to no effect.

Cheers all!

Jon

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #2561 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 09 February 2006 17:51

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Hmm, I think I might be getting somewhere. When executing the remote-list command, I am receiving the following error:

Notice: ob_end_clean(): failed to delete buffer. No buffer to delete. in C:\php\PEAR\pearcmd.php on line 23
File http://pear.php.net:80/rest/c/categories.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Requi
red
)

I think the notice message can be ignored. It's the authentication thing I've noticed: any thoughts how I specify a username and password for my http_proxy?

Cheers [pulls hair out Crying or Very Sad

Crying or Very Sad

]

Jon

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #3315 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 02 March 2006 13:38

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Apparently there's an issue in the latest version of PEAR (1.4.7)

Try downgrading by running

pear upgrade -f PEAR-1.4.6

[Updated on: Thu, 02 March 2006 14:00]

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #3317 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 02 March 2006 15:11

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Thanks Paul.

Well, I found elsewhere that the syntax for the proxy is user:pass@proxy. The reason why it wasn't working is that our proxy refuses connections on certain kinds of compressed files, and since PEAR downloads tgz files, it was failing.

However if, once the proxy filtering is fixed, I still have problems, I will take your advice and try an earlier version of PEAR. Thanks for the info Smile

Smile

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #3347 is a reply to message #3315 ]

Fri, 03 March 2006 02:09

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paul_lomax wrote on Thu, 02 March 2006 13:38

Apparently there's an issue in the latest version of PEAR (1.4.7)

Try downgrading by running

pear upgrade -f PEAR-1.4.6

Thanks Paul, this did it for me!

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Re: Discovery of channel failed [message #3349 is a reply to message #218 ]

Fri, 03 March 2006 04:16

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or just apply the patch to PEAR bug #6960

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #11975 is a reply to message #218 ]

Tue, 12 September 2006 19:21

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I am adding to this ancient post to help any future installers with proxy/filter problems in PEAR install commands. I have got around this successfully by:

downloading http://pear.symfony-project.com/channel.xml in a web browser, and then saving it in a retrievable place, eg c:\channel.xml
executing pear channel-add "c:\channel.xml"
downloading the beta from http://www.symfony-project.com/get/symfony-beta.tgz (of course the stable version can be substituted)
executing pear install --offline "c:\symfony-beta.tgz"

Hope that helps someone avoid fighting with a corporate firewall Wink

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #26229 is a reply to message #11975 ]

Tue, 24 April 2007 20:20

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Halfer, thank you very much for posting that solution.
It worked for me (and I wasn't even firewalled: I had that problem here on the localhost!)

Cheers,
-G

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #34664 is a reply to message #11975 ]

Fri, 31 August 2007 13:13

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halfer, your suggestion was wonderful! I am new to php/simfony and was following the simfony installation guide. We have a corporate firewall. I got stuck installing simfony and it was a struggle till I read your posting. It pulled me out of the abyss!! -Thanks Smile

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Cannot download non-local package ... [message #61259 is a reply to message #34664 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 14:23

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when I saw this post, I thought I could solve my problem ..

I did exactly what I written but ...

1) I downloaded "c:\channel.xml"
2) I ran
C:\>pear channel-add "c:\channel.xml"
channel-add: Channel "pear.symfony-project.com" exists, use channel-update to update entry

3) I ran
C:\>pear install --offline "c:\symfony-1.0.17.tgz"
Parsing of package.xml from file " C:\WINDOWS\TMP\mijad4\pear\cache/symfony-1.0.17/lib/vendor/p ropel-generator/pear/build-pear-package
.xml" failed
Cannot download non-local package "c:\symfony-1.0.17.tgz"
Package "c:\symfony-1.0.17.tgz" is not valid
install failed

attached sme error messages

Attachment: pear-symfony-1.0.17-problem
(Size: 1.66KB, Downloaded 212 time(s))

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61261 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 14:35

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What version of PHP and PEAR are you using?

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61263 is a reply to message #61261 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 14:43

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C:\>pear -V
PEAR Version: 1.6.1
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0
Running on: Windows NT MIJAD4-P 5.1 build 2600

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61264 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 14:51

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I am concerned that PEAR thinks that something in c: is a non-local package! Does C:\symfony-1.0.17.tgz actually exist on your disc?

Failing that, delete the channel from pear and re-add it, then try again.

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61266 is a reply to message #61264 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:11

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C:\symfony-1.0.17.tgz actually exist on my disc

C:\>pear channel-delete symfony
Channel "pear.symfony-project.com" has installed packages, cannot delete

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61268 is a reply to message #218 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:26

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OK, uninstall using PEAR then. You can do "pear help (command)" to get options like "force" etc.

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61269 is a reply to message #61268 ]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:46

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... before doing that, I'll try to install from home, because, from my office, I'm not sure of what is between my laptop and Internet .. I guess at least to proxies and 2 FW .. and my own VPN

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Re: [resolved]Discovery of channel failed [message #61572 is a reply to message #61269 ]

Mon, 22 September 2008 20:51

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C:\>pear install -f symfony/symfony-1.0.17
downloading symfony-1.0.17.tgz ...
Starting to download symfony-1.0.17.tgz (1,913,192 bytes)
............................................................ ....................
............................................................ ....................
............................................................ ....................
install ok: channel://pear.symfony-project.com/symfony-1.0.17

.... that's what I thought !! from home, I have no problem.
At work, there must be something with our FWs and/or proxys

I'll try to check that later, about TCP channels used by PEAR

Anyway, thanks for your help
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