[Hidden-tech] Drupal question

[Mark D. Hamill]

David, I recommend posting these sorts of questions on stackoverflow.com.
Fast and accurate response is usually a given.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, David Korpiewski <davidk at cs.umass.edu>
wrote:

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> I have a two drupal 7 sites, one is a devel site that I use git to update
> the main site.   On the devel site drush works fine for updating the core:
>
> drush @site pm-update
>
> works fine
>
> However when I try to update the master site, the pm-update can't
> "bootstrap" the database even though the site works fine.  (which means the
> settings.php file is fine)
>
> *drush @site pm-update*
> *Command pm-update needs a higher bootstrap level to run - you will need
> to invoke drush from a more functional Drupal environment to run this
> [error]*
> *command.*
> *The drush command 'pm-update' could not be
> executed.
> [error]*
> *Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal
> database.
> [error]*
> *Hint: This may occur when Drush is trying to:*
> * * bootstrap a site that has not been installed or does not have a
> configured database. In this case you can select another site with a
> working*
> *database setup by specifying the URI to use with the --uri parameter on
> the command line. See `drush topic docs-aliases` for details.*
> * * connect the database through a socket. The socket file may be wrong or
> the php-cli may have no access to it in a jailed shell. See*
> *http://drupal.org/node/1428638 <http://drupal.org/node/1428638> for
> details.*
>
> I have even gone so far as to exclusively put the database information
> into the aliases.drushrc.php file and still it gives me this error.
>
> Any ideas why I can't bootstrap this database even though everything
> appears to be in complete order?
>
> my aliases entry (with key information changed):
> $aliases['site'] = array(
>     'uri' => 'mysite.edu',
>     'root' => '/usr/local/net/www/httpd/web/drupal7',
>     'databases' =>
>      array (
>      'default' =>
>       array(
>       'default' =>
>        array(
>         'database' => 'dbforsite',
>         'username' => 'usernameforsite',
>         'password' => 'password',
>         'host' => 'localhost',
>         'port' => '',
>         'driver' => 'mysql',
>         'prefix' => '',
>       ),
>      ),
>     ),
>   );
>
> Thank you in advance!
> David
>
>
> --
>
> *David Korpiewski*
> Software Specialist I
> CSCF - Computer Science Computing Facility
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> 413-545-4319
>
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