Last modified: 2014-10-30 22:49:07 UTC
I recently upgraded from 1.20.8 to 1.23.2 and it now appears the job queue is not running, though manual runs of the runJobs script do work. The wiki debug log has messages saying: [runJobs] Running 1 job(s) via '/index.php?title=Special%3ARunJobs&tasks=jobs&maxjobs=1&sigexpiry=NNN&signature=NNN' [runJobs] Failed to start cron API: received 'HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required' It was suggested on the IRC channel that others are seeing this too and that I should file a bug report, so here it is.
FWIW, my servers are running Apache 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Oh and PHP 5.3.10. Sorry for the comment spam.
Not sure if this is the reason but there have been job queue changes in 1.22, see https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/REL1_22/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59797/ (and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46934 ) What is $wgJobTypeConf set to? You can also set: $wgDebugLogGroups['runJobs'] = "<some path>" to get debug output and errors (but maybe that's already what your info in comment 0 comes from?).
$wgJobTypeConf is not set in LocalSettings.php so it's still the default: array( 'default' => array ( 'class' => 'JobQueueDB', 'order' => 'random' ) ) I haven't used $wgDebugLogGroups, but the output I provided is in the debug log specified by $wgDebugLogFile. I'll look more closely at the links you've provided, though as I understand it, MW change how the job queue works in 1.22 and then reverted those changes to some degree in 1.23, so I'm not sure how applicable the 1.22 changes could be to a 1.23 wiki.
The problem is that the internal HTTP request to run jobs doesn't include the Content-Length: header (as the HTTP 411 error explains), but it seems to be required[1] (although some webservers, even my apache 2.2.22 on OpenSuSE, doesn't complain about that missing header!): Relevant code in MediaWiki.php (or Wiki.php before 1.24) $req = "POST $url HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: {$info['host']}\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n"; ... $bytes = fwrite( $sock, $req ); The solution is simple: Send a Content-Length: header. ---- [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.13
Do I see it correctly that a `Content-Length: 0` should be correct there since the request body is empty?
Change 167707 had a related patch set uploaded by Poke: Add Content-Length header for job queue requests https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/167707
Change 167707 merged by jenkins-bot: Add Content-Length header for job queue requests https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/167707
Fix landed and was confirmed to have solved the issue.
Wondering whether that (merged in master) one-liner patch should be backported to 1.23 tarballs - setting backport flag to "?" and CC'ing Mark y Markus.
Change 169734 had a related patch set uploaded by MarkAHershberger: AuthorDate: 2014-10-20 23:40:20 +0200 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169734
Change 169734 merged by Mglaser: Add Content-Length header for job queue requests https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169734
Now that this has been integrated into REL1_23, should I go ahead and backport it to REL1_24 too?
(In reply to Patrick Westerhoff from comment #13) > Now that this has been integrated into REL1_23, should I go ahead and > backport it to REL1_24 too? Please do.
Change 169965 had a related patch set uploaded by Poke: Add Content-Length header for job queue requests https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169965
Change 169965 merged by jenkins-bot: Add Content-Length header for job queue requests https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169965
Backported to 1.23 and 1.24.
