Last modified: 2014-07-31 14:08:56 UTC
Bug noted on Mac OS X 10.9.3, using Vagrant 1.6.3 and Virtualbox 4.3.12. As per the standard vagrantfile, it was using a static IP and nfs. Many things in MediaWiki require it to make calls to external APIs. It seems that when hhvm is on, CurlHttpRequest::execute always times out. I noticed this with uploads particularly. Enabling the zend role fixed the problem, so it seems to be specific to hhvm. Problems that I noticed: * when using instantCommons, uploads always time out. The reason is because MediaWiki is checking to see if the upload is already on Commons, and the request times out. * when using UploadWizard (or other upload-by-url pages) to get files from Flickr, the request always times out, because Flickr API requests are timing out. To see this behavior: $ vagrant enable-role hhvm $ vagrant enable-role uploadwizard If change 148505 (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148505/) hasn't landed yet, make sure to add the following to your LocalSettings, to allow the kinds of uploads I mentioned. $wgInstantCommons = true; $wgAllowCopyUploads = true; $wgGroupPermissions["*"]["upload_by_url"] = true; Then, you can try using UploadWizard to: - Upload any image file - Upload any file from an appropriately licensed Flickr URL (https://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/10423091326/ is fine; if you need more use the advanced search to find CC-BY and CC-BY-SA files).
I couldn't reproduce it (tried provisioning with latest vagrant revision). If it still fails for you, could you check which request exactly is failing and narrow it down to a shorter minimum repro code?
I created a new hhvm MediaWiki-vagrant from scratch. Now I can't reproduce it either. I do know that switching from hhvm to zend in my other instance solved the problem immediately. Perhaps it had something to do with Vagrant re-provisioning the box. Sorry for wasting your time.
(In reply to Neil Kandalgaonkar from comment #2) > I created a new hhvm MediaWiki-vagrant from scratch. Now I can't reproduce > it either. You may not have been mistaken about the curl timeout problem. We merged a change (Ib36ecadf6b34420be82e425fcb3f7d322991edd6) no too long ago that added a higher than default timeout to help with Composer downloads.
I don't think so - when it was failing for me the remote API requests would never complete, whether to Commons or to Flickr. Even if I left them for 15 minutes, and verified the APIs returned in seconds from the same computer, when not within the hhvm mediawiki-vagrant. This was clearly a network or file descriptor issue of some kind. I can't figure out what, though.
