Tag: drush

Updated Tue 8 Jan 2019

Symptom: drush updb hangs

If drush updb is hanging, first, run it with the --verbose script to see exactly what’s going on – that will show you the MySQL connections. (It turned out in my case Drush was connecting to the wrong database).

Symptom: drush connects to wrong database

Checklist:

• Try starting the terminal connection via DevDesktop (the icon top right) and see if that makes a difference
• Double the database connection details in the appropriate loc_ file in ~/.acquia/DevDesktop/DrupalSettings/
• Check your drush status output
• Check what happens if you run drush sqlc
• Try installing the latest Drush (composer require drush/drush) rather than relying on the version that comes with DevDesktop (at time of writing that’s 8.1.7, whereas Drush is now up to 9.5.2)

My situation: I have two MySQL installations running, the 32-bit DevDesktop supplied version, and a 64-bit mariadb (for a very large site where I was experiencing connection timeouts).  They are on different ports. I had a site where ordinary drush commands and drush sqlc connection went to the correct MySQL server but drush updb used the wrong one (confirmed using the --verbose option – in fact it was connecting to a database with a different name entirely.

I couldn’t figure out what was going on, so I upgraded from Drush 8 to 9 and that fixed it immediately.

Symptom: large Drupal 7 site where cache is extremely slow or fails to clear…

drush cc all

…and eventually PHP runs out of memory (“cannot allocate”).

Check Drush is using the correct version of PHP, it may not be – use drush status or, more simply: drush php

To fix:

$ which drush
/Applications/DevDesktop/tools/drush

$ vim /Applications/DevDesktop/tools/drush

# edit the PHP version: [ -z "$PHP_ID" ] && PHP_ID=php7_1

See also: Acquia Dev Desktop known issues page