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Can't use string ("") as a HASH ref

By Richard Benson on Mar 17, 2009 at 5:06 PM 2 Vote 0 Votes

New install of 4.25 on new hosting structure (but with imported database) and I'm having all sorts of problems!

My first was the old "have you moved mt-config-original" thing fixed by editing bootstrap.pm.

So that got me to the install scripts and all seemed to be going fine, database was upgraded fine, shows me the login box and I log in......

"Can't use string ("") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use"

That's all I get (in a nice MT branded error).

Any ideas?

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    Author Profile Page Richard Benson | March 24, 2009 4:10 AM | Reply

    Anyone? Getting this on another install now as well. It seems to only affect the dashboards, if you know the querystring to append to mt.cgi, you get get to other pages, you just can't see the dashboard and you get the above error.

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    Author Profile Page Richard Benson | March 24, 2009 4:38 AM | Reply

    Solved it!

    MySQL Migration toolkit doesn't transfer BLOB data (which is apparently a non-severe bug!), so a manual backup/restore of the DB included this data and it worked.

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