Fail to install Midas 3.2.20: "Could not find mixer" error

[felixveysseyre]

Hello,

I have been trying to install Midas 3.2.20 (on Mac OS X 10.11.2) but I am stuck on step 2.

After entering my database information correctly, I got the following error message:

Could not find mixer
In /Users/felixveysseyre/Projects/Midas/vendor/ircmaxell/random-lib/lib/RandomLib/Factory.php, line: 187
At 06:09:37 2016-09-02

I have tried to update Random-lib package but I am still getting the same error.

Thanks,
Félix

[cpatrick]

I believe this is an issue with not finding some underlying crypto library, do you have the openssl or mcrypt extension installed?

At any rate, we should improve the error message.

[felixveysseyre]

OpenSSL extension is installed, not mcrypt.

Is mcrypt a dependency ? I did not get any error message on step1.

[cpatrick]

it shouldn't be, does installing it address the issue?

[felixveysseyre]

Same error with mcrypt installed:

[cpatrick]

Hmmm, Are you able to manually create a RandomLib Matcher?

@jamiesnape, have you seen anything like this?

[jamiesnape]

No, but we do not test old versions of Midas with recent dependencies. Is there a compelling reason to be using 3.2.20? It is missing critical security fixes.

[felixveysseyre]

@jamiesnape Mostly because our old applications (two or three years old) have been implemented as private module working with Midas 3.2.

It would make sens to use 3.4 instead if it was not requiring an important amount of work.

[felixveysseyre]

@cpatrick Disabling openssl extension allowed me to complete the installation.

if (false && extension_loaded('openssl')) {
    $factory = new \RandomLib\Factory();
    $generator = $factory->getHighStrengthGenerator();
    $prefix = $generator->generateString(32);
} else {
    $prefix = $this->Component->Random->generateString(32);
}

I am not sure what is happening but it could be related to this issue ircmaxell/RandomLib#25

Thanks @cpatrick !