phpmyadmin broken after using ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa (unknown named parameter $$response - ContainerBuilder.php)

[kanlukasz]

Describe the bug

So far I have used php7.x and phpmyadmin from the official Ubuntu package (everything worked fine)
Now I have upgraded to php8 using ppa:ondrej (all works fine here)

Then I wanted to update phpmyadmin according to this documentation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

After that:

• I reloaded Apache
• cleared cache / cookies
• opened localhost/phpmyadmin

And the effect is as follows:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Unknown named parameter $$response in /usr/share/php/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php:1140
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php(1140): ReflectionClass->newInstanceArgs()
#1 /usr/share/php/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php(609): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->createService()
#2 /usr/share/php/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php(555): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doGet()
#3 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/classes/Routing.php(186): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->get()
#4 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/index.php(18): PhpMyAdmin\Routing::callControllerForRoute()
#5 {main} thrown in /usr/share/php/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php on line 1140

Screenshots

Server configuration

• Operating system: Windows 10 with WSL2 - Ubuntu 20.04 focal
• Web server: Apache
• Database version: 10.3.31-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04
• PHP version: 8.0.12
• phpMyAdmin version: from ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa (5.1.1)

[williamdes]

Hi!
This looks just like #16968

Let me know if you find anything useful in #16968
This error is out of the scope of our code base unfortunately, it's a Symfony bug.

[kanlukasz]

Thank you for the quick reply.

I'm not sure if any solution from #16968 is okay with me, but maybe rolling back phpmyadmin can fix it temporarily? , for example to 5.0.X? Is it possible with your PPA? How?

Or any diffrent way? I generally don't need the latest version. I just want it to run on PHP 8

[williamdes]

It's not possible to have multiple versions on the PPA but you could try to install the deb from another source like another Ubuntu or Debian

See the Wiki for install methods on Ubuntu/Debian

[williamdes]

The alternative could be to install phpMyAdmin by overriding the files in the installed directory by the extracted bundle from our website

I feel wrong to not be able to provide a correct solution from a packaging perspective but I am not responsible of packaging the symfony packages. Anyway you already read the thread about all that complicated issue ^^

[kanlukasz]

Another idea that I have is to install phpmyadmin "independently".
I mean installation in /var/www/* via composer. What do you think about it ?

But here I have doubts about what to do with the current installation via ppa?
Can I somehow uninstall it safely? Should I do this?
Or should i rollback to official apt package? How? I feel very confused 😕

[williamdes]

Hi @kanlukasz

Did you try apt purge phpmyadmin to clean the installed package ?

I would suggest you to then use the zip file from our website

[INDIGO9777]

in nginx settings file switch php version from
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
on the
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;