Problem:
Issue summary:
NOTE: if you are trying to solve this novice issue, the plan of attack is at http://drupal.org/node/1170362#comment-5050480. We need a simple patch that takes most of http://drupal.org/node/1170362#comment-5011400 but instead of hiding the warning when a profile is not found, it displays its label as "Unknown").
There are multiple issues with install profiles, both within Drupal 7 and on upgraded Drupal 6 sites, these all end up with the same symptom: "Undefined index: distribution_name" due to system_requirements().
- Drush 3 and dependencies
- When profiles were made into modules, the modules the profiles need were put in
dependencies. Unlike other modules, however, these are not real dependencies: your system might still work if you disable some. Like, installing the standard profile then disabling overlay module.This bug was discovered in #820054: Add support for recommends[] and fix install profile dependency special casing however fixing it would have required an API change for install profile developers, so that issue is only marked against Drupal 8, and workarounds were put into all code dealing with module dependencies to special case profiles instead.
Those workarounds were put into Drush 4/5 as well, but not Drush 3, which is still in use. So any site that runs drush updb with Drush 3 will have its install profile disabled by drush.
There's nothing that can be done about this in drush 3, and the bug is in core, so this issue tried to fix that.
- update.php
- sun's patches above demonstrate that just running update.php on D7 can disable your install profile, due to some weird things going on in _system_rebuild_module_data()
- Sites upgrading from Drupal 6 to a different install profile
- In Drupal 6, install profiles were 'run once', this meant that you could make a custom install profile for a site, install it, then never touch the install profile again (including when upgrading). When install profiles became required (half-)modules in Drupal 7, support for this was completely removed - if you install with a profile, we're currently requiring you to upgrade the specific profile you installed with through every possible future version of Drupal core. #1242956: Allow install profiles to be uninstalled starts to discuss this, but since this blocks the upgrade path from D6 it's probably a legitimate bug here too
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Proposed solution
There are a couple of ways to fix this, and they may be contradictory.
sun's patch started work on automatically ensuring the install profile is enabled every time _system_rebuild_module_data() is called. This would fix install profiles that have been disabled by drush 3 or update.php
However, there is no straight bug fix solution for the situation where a site is no longer using an install profile. For this we could either start allowing people to explicitly disable an install profile, or just make the system tolerant when none is found in the system (for example setting the site to use the 'minimal' profile which should never have any runtime code added to it).
To minimize the number of new comments asking for it, here's a work-around for current Drupal 7 users: You need to enable the profile used to install Drupal by updating the system table. For example: UPDATE system SET status=1 WHERE name='standard'; will enable the Standard profile. If you don't know which profile was used, just use 'standard'.