Initialzition error

Saturday 30 August 2003 6:10:35 pm

I have searched the forums and the help doesnt seem to help me at all.

I am getting this error using the setup install guide

Initialization failed
The database could not be properly initialized.

MySQL Error #0

What could be causing this error??? Please help

Tuesday 02 September 2003 9:43:17 am

Can anyone help this is really important.

I am using EZp3.1 and i have tried it on two different hosting accounts one brand new with nothing else installed and a fresh database.

Can someone please give me an idea of at least where to look for the problem??

Wednesday 03 September 2003 8:02:50 am

I have tried the installation on two hosting accounts I have with seperate companys. The first contained an old version of EZ, and also shared the database with another programe i am running (oscommerce). I cleaned the database of everything from the old EZ tables and made sure nothing was there. I got the error.

I then tried it on a brand new hosting account that was set up on a different server to the one above. I uploaded the script and only the script, I gave it its own brand new database and i get exactly the same error. There is nothing else installed in the database or on the hosting.

I get the error at the database stage, a test connection to the database is made and is successfull, it then says "click continue to initialize the database" with a tick box for demo data. I click continue and get the above error. I checked the database and they are still empty, so it is connecting to the DB ok in both cases.

If you would like to see the set up you can email me and i will let you have the database settings and you can see what i mean.
The new fresh clean hosting and database can be found at
http://www.lifeboatstation.com/index.php

If you want the database details email me at
paul [at] sankesolutions [dot] co [dot] uk

Thanks for replying to my thread i was beggining to get worried :S

Monday 08 September 2003 6:27:14 am

Thanks for that, I switched on the debug and it did find a few small errors during the first stages of install with the VAR file, so I fixed these.

However during the language options screen I got some more errors and then during the collecting information section on the Summary page i get the same errors which are below.
Warning: PHP Sep 08 2003 14:23:27
Undefined index: language_type in /home/.sites/133/site134/web/lifeboat/kernel/setup/parts/init/ezstep_summary.php on line 55
Warning: eZCodePageMapper Sep 08 2003 14:23:27
Couldn't load input codepage file share/codepages/koi8-r
Warning: eZCodePage Sep 08 2003 14:23:27
Couldn't load codepage file share/codepages/koi8-r
Error: eZCodePageMapper Sep 08 2003 14:23:27
Input codepage for koi8-r is not valid
Error: eZTextCodec Sep 08 2003 14:23:27
Cannot create textcodec from characterset koi8-r to characterset iso-8859-1

I carried onto the database section and again I get the initialization error.

any ideas?

Monday 08 September 2003 7:19:03 am

The page might still be missing then as I used a very recent download, you may want to check it out.

I cannot access that file it gives me a 403 forbidden page :(

Monday 08 September 2003 3:48:25 pm

Yeah and I need to download that file, is there anywhere else I can get it from ?

Tuesday 09 September 2003 7:15:55 am

This is really beggining to annoy me, and I really want to try EZ but if a simple thing like the installer isnt working properly then its going to put a lot of people off.

During the set up I got the following two errors on the last two pages during the language setup option/Collecting information section.

Error: eZTextCodec Sep 09 2003 15:08:43
Cannot create textcodec from characterset koi8-r to characterset iso-8859-1

Warning: PHP Sep 09 2003 15:10:24
Undefined index: language_type in /home/.sites/133/site134/web/lifeboat/kernel/setup/parts/init/ezstep_summary.php on line 55
Error: eZTextCodec Sep 09 2003 15:10:24
Cannot create textcodec from characterset koi8-r to characterset iso-8859-1

But when I carry on to the database section, it carries out a test connection OK, but still I get the initialization error.

Can someone please help me out with this!

Thursday 11 September 2003 1:28:27 pm

May be you should try to set the default language to en-english first and specify others later. For your final site, it does not matter what you specify afterwards (if there are no other language related bugs of course).

-paul

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