Hi,

I am getting the following error in a clean install when trying to access Admin and was wondering if anyone has encountered the same issue? And possibly how they fixed it.

[User Error] Uncaught Zend_Locale_Exception: failed to receive data from locale en_GB
GET /admin/pages

Line 1139 in /home/webspace/[site]/www/htdocs/framework/thirdparty/Zend/Locale/Format.php
Source

1130 * @param string|Zend_Locale $locale OPTIONAL Locale of $number, possibly in string form (e.g. 'de_AT')
1131 * @return string format
1132 * @throws Zend_Locale_Exception throws an exception when locale data is broken
1133 */
1134 public static function getDateFormat($locale = null)
1135 {
1136 $format = Zend_Locale_Data::getContent($locale, 'date');
1137 if (empty($format)) {
1138 require_once 'Zend/Locale/Exception.php';
1139 throw new Zend_Locale_Exception("failed to receive data from locale $locale");
1140 }
1141
1142 return $format;
1143 }
1144
1145 /**

Trace

Zend_Locale_Format::getDateFormat(en_GB)
Member.php:1113
Member->getDateFormat()
ViewableData.php:108
ViewableData->__get(DateFormat)
LeftAndMain.php:214
LeftAndMain->init()
CMSMain.php:65
CMSMain->init()
Controller.php:139
Controller->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
LeftAndMain.php:443
LeftAndMain->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
AdminRootController.php:93
AdminRootController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
Director.php:370
Director::handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,Session,DataModel)
Director.php:153
Director::direct(/admin/pages,DataModel)
main.php:177

I'm unsure exactly what causes this - I get it randomly every few months. I found it can be fixed by adding a silverstripe-cache directory to the project root.

Today I got this very same error. Flushing the cache did not solve the problem but manually removing the whole cache directory did:

rm -fr /tmp/silverstripe-cache-php5.6.26-0+deb8u1-var-www-www.whatev.er/

My guess is Zend_Locale directly uses Zend_Cache (see e.g. Zend_Locale_Data::getContent) and not the SilverStripe wrapper, hence it is not flushed by ?flush. If that cache is for some reason invalid, you end up locked.

I recently updated PHP (that in turn changes the cache path), so I suspect that is the reason that triggered this error.

Ok, this problem seems to be triggered by a couple of bug in PHP. I filed a workaround for SilverStripe in issue 6174.