PHP Fatal error in zabbix-frontend-php

Sorry, I hasn't correct php.ini
It can be removed.

What did you do to correct this? I have the same error.

Also I upgraded from 15.04 to 16.10, and I first got a PHP7 MySQL error because php7.0-mysql was not installed. Once I manually installed that I am now getting the error you posted above.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Nick, go to http://your_zabbix_url/setup.php - Check of pre-requisites

I have the same issue on this and also fresh install the 16.04, after try to install Zabbix 3 in Zabbix repo, get zabbix-frontend with error during apt-get install and unable to continue, problem is most likely is PHP7 + Zabbix-Frontend

I came to comment here, as I reported the same bug and it was marked as duplicate, which it was.

Anyway, only after reporting the bug I noticed, that Zabbix itself tells, that it is not compatible with PHP7. Thus the whole Zabbix package should be withdrawn from Ubuntu 16.04 until it supports PHP7 or alternatively, Ubuntu 16.04 should support an official method to stay in PHP5.

Reference:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/installation/requirements
"PHP 5.4.0 or later PHP v7 is not supported yet."

To resolve the original issue (which is a real bug, thank you for filing it), please install the 'php-mbstring' package.

This is I believe fixed in the Yakkety (16.10) package, which is synced from Debian. I am working on backporting some fixes from that version, which allow for 2.4.7 (in my testing) to bring up the web frontend with PHP7. I will update this bug shortly with more information.

I have pushed a test build to: https://launchpad.net/~nacc/+archive/ubuntu/zabbix.

Please test the version there (2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu3~ppa1), if you are affected. This should install the correct dependencies and avoid the issue in bug 1572841 for the web frontend.

Using the afore-mentioned PPA in a 16.04 LXD container, I did:

`apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php`

I then followed

/usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql/README.Debian

to populate the database.

I then followed

/usr/share/doc/zabbix-frontend-php/README.Debian

to configure the fronted. This document specifically mentions needing to install php-mysql to use MySQL, so I did that as well.

I was able to proceed through all the screens at http://<ip of container>/zabbix/setup.php until the last, which threw an error about creating the configuration file. I downloaded the provided instead and saved its contents to /etc/zabbix/zabbix.conf.php and the install was able to conclude.

I was able to login and see the dashboard. I have little knowledge of zabbix itself, but this much does work. I will investigate the LTS upgrade path next.

This looks good, but needs SRU information for the fix for bug 1572841 please. The SRU team will reject the upload without this, so I'll wait before uploading.

Minor: the changelog formatting looks a little off (missing bracket, extra comma).

encountered this bug while upgrading my zabbix server from 14.04 to 16.04 (using zabbix packages fom zabbix repo).
fixed by installing php-mbstring & php7.0-mbstring.
so, this may be just a misconfigured dependencies issue, i suspect.

Hello Vitaliy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted zabbix into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zabbix/1:2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified on 2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

The verification of the Stable Release Update for zabbix has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package zabbix - 1:2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

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zabbix (1:2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/control: add dependencies on split-out PHP7 packages (bcmath,
    mbstring, xml) needed by web frontend (LP: #1571534, .
  * debian/patches/always_populate_raw_post_data_not_in_php7.patch:
    Backport '[ZBX-9659] changed setup condition for checking
    always_populate_raw_post_data'. Closes LP: #1572841.

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:03:29 -0700