When trying to set up Moodle, right after the Licence Info screen, I get a page full of gibberish (see attached screenshot). In the meantime, some tables *do get created*. These are mdl_config, mdl_course, mdl_course_categories, mdl_course_modules, mdl_course_sections, mdl_log, mdl_log_display, mdl_modules, mdl_user, mdl_user_admins, mdl_user_coursecreators, mdl_user_students and mdl_user_teachers. When I press "Back", I don't get back to the licence page, but to the "You are currently using Moodle version..." page and I can continue. However, when I get to the next screen where database tables are created, I get the same sort of stuff (but more tables appear in the database). All of moodle is eventually installed and seems to be running ok, but all this is very confusing. Any ideas why this is happening?
This happened to me with both 1.0.8.1 and 1.0.9 (dev). The issue seems to be client-dependent, because it only occurred when I was installing moodle from my computer at work (Win2000 and the problem occurred using both Mozilla 1.3 and IE 6). When I tried to replicate the problem using a colleague's computer (Win2000, IE 6), everything went ok.
It is difficult for me because the affected computer is the one I work most often from, and I also get the same kind of gibberish when trying to access moodle/admin/user.php
Any ideas why this is happening?
Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Przemyslaw Stencel -
Number of replies: 7
In reply to Przemyslaw Stencel
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Martin Dougiamas -
Wierd! I strongly doubt it's anything to do with Moodle. HTML pages are often compressed with gzip for transmission - perhaps this is un-decrypted traffic? Try turning off all firewalls, proxies, caches etc between you and the server to get raw access as much as possible.
In reply to Martin Dougiamas
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Przemyslaw Stencel -
Thanks! Clearing the cache helped.
In reply to Przemyslaw Stencel
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Przemyslaw Stencel -
Clearing the cache helped...
... for a couple of minutes only. After I've edited two users, the same thing happened.
To summarize, it happens on admin/user.php page (at least I haven't come across this behaviour on any other page). Clearing the cache helps, but only temporarily, and it doesn't always help. There have been times when I cleared the cache and the "edit users" page came up with that gibberish again.
Any ideas? Is anyone else experiencing it?
In reply to Przemyslaw Stencel
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Przemyslaw Stencel -
I'm back to this oldish thread because it's happened to me again. This time on the /admin/user.php page. I was deleting users. When I've deleted 20 or so of them, I got the gibberish (see screenshot in the previous message) again and could not do anything else. I don't think it has anything to do with cache. I cleared the cache, but it didn't help. I was using Mozilla when this happened, so I switched to IE - then something else happened - see the attached screenshot.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Any ideas why this is happening?
In reply to Przemyslaw Stencel
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Martin Dougiamas -
No idea at all, though I know it's not Moodle. Do you have a server administrator there?
In reply to Martin Dougiamas
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Przemyslaw Stencel -
part-time 
I'll try to speak to him.
Meanwhile, I'm attaching the screenshot which I forgot to attach to the previous message. Strange, isn't it?
I'll try to speak to him.
Meanwhile, I'm attaching the screenshot which I forgot to attach to the previous message. Strange, isn't it?
In reply to Przemyslaw Stencel
Re: Gibberish instead of "tables have been set up" during install
ni Zbigniew Fiedorowicz -
It could be something wrong with your client browser and/or operating system on your personal computer, e.g. your file associations are messed up. I've had similar problems with students having the ".php" extension being associated to some program/plugin on their computer and either getting gibberish on the screen or getting a strange error message. Sometimes rebooting your pc fixes things.
Alternatively it could be something wrong with web server. Again sometimes restarting the server fixes the problem.