Weird sample data installation issue

[CoreyCole]

I'm getting a weird issue trying to install sample data on a fresh webstore. I've wiped the database and pulled a fresh directory. I'm able to install without sample data, but when I run
composer require magento/sample-data:1.0.0-beta
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento sampledata:install admin

I get the following output:

~/html/magento2$ bin/magento sampledata:install admin
Installing theme:
.
Installing customers:
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found
.
Installing CMS pages:
....
Installing catalog attributes:
...........................
Installing categories:
.........................................
Installing simple products:
PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method Magento\Catalog\Model\Resource\Product\Interceptor::getWriteConnection() in /var/www/html/magento2/app/code/Magento/SampleData/Module/Catalog/Setup/Product/Gallery.php on line 144

[ghost]

Have you ever been able to do it? If so did you change anything?

Also, even though there's no need you might as well clean the var/generation and var/cache directories and try again.

[CoreyCole]

Yes I've been able to before, but this time I'm trying to install the 1.0.0-beta sample data.

I just tried switching my version to "version": "0.74.0-beta16" and my sample data version to "magento/sample-data": "0.74.0-beta16" in my composer.json file. It works just fine that way.

[danslo]

@CoreyCole Is your magento2 install actually 1.0.0-beta too? I think you might be trying to install 1.0.0-beta sample data on an older magento version.

[CoreyCole]

I did a fresh clone and in my composer.json the version line said 1.0.0-beta before I changed it.

[vpelipenko]

sample-data:1.0.0-beta is compatible only with Magento 1.0.0-beta https://github.com/magento/magento2/tree/master. Version in develop branch is not stable and can produce some errors.

[CoreyCole]

Thanks! Running git checkout master made the installation run smoothly.

[miguelbalparda]

Same happened here with a fresh install of Magento 2 from this repo. I would say it is exatly the same scenario. @CoreyCole how did you fixed this? If I try to do a git checkout master i get
[magetwod@sip1-176 public_html]$ git checkout master
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
composer.json
composer.lock
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.

[mbrinton01]

+1 for this error, used a clean install and it happens.

[miguelbalparda]

I can confirm the solution proposed here works. After doing git checkout master and git pull I'm able to install Magento 2 with sample data.

[CoreyCole]

Try git checkout -f -b master
On Aug 4, 2015 4:34 PM, "Miguel Balparda" [email protected] wrote:

I can confirm the solution proposed here works. After doing git checkout
master and git pull I'm able to install Magento 2 with sample data.

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[mbrinton01]

Thank you @CoreyCole, I was just trying the same thing. Master branch works w/sample data.

[mazhalai]

We have created MAGETWO-41137 to investigate this issue

[santosh-brainvire]

Hello ,

I did git checkout master, still i am getting the issue.

/var/www/magento2/bin/magento sampledata:install admin
Installing theme:
.
Installing customers:
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found
.
Installing CMS pages:
....
Installing catalog attributes:
...........................
Installing categories:
.........................................
Installing simple products:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method Magento\Catalog\Model\Resource\Product\Interceptor::getWriteConnection() in /var/www/magento2/app/code/Magento/SampleData/Module/Catalog/Setup/Product/Gallery.php on line 144

[CoreyCole]

@santosh-brainvire did you try git checkout -f -b master ?

[santosh-brainvire]

@CoreyCole Yes, i am now on branch master. Here is output of git status.

git status

On branch master

Changes not staged for commit:

(use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)

(use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified: composer.json

modified: composer.lock

modified: pub/static/.htaccess

modified: var/.htaccess

Untracked files:

(use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)

app/code/Magento/SampleData/

composer.json.bak

It took 14.03 seconds to enumerate untracked files. 'status -uno'

may speed it up, but you have to be careful not to forget to add

new files yourself (see 'git help status').

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

[CoreyCole]

Maybe try making your composer.json file identical to the one here plus the one line to require the sample data 1.0.0-beta. Then try running sudo composer update

[MagePsycho]

Even switching to master branch:
git checkout -f -b master

results in the same error:

Installing CMS pages:
....
Installing catalog attributes:
...........................
Installing categories:
.........................................
Installing simple products:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method >Magento\Catalog\Model\Resource\Product\Interceptor::getWriteConnection() in /magento2beta/app/code/Magento/SampleData/Module/Catalog/Setup/Product/Gallery.php on line 144

Any workaround for fixing?

[MagePsycho]

I didn't see the getWriteConnection() method in Magento\Catalog\Model\Resource\Product\Interceptor
[UPDATES]
But fresh installation with master branch fixed the issue :)

But. didn't get the [SUCCESS]: Magento Admin URI: /admin_1g5k83 line after successful installation. Wonder what will be my admin url (which was /admin).
So why there are two scenarios of generating custom admin url and the default /admin?

[mkz71]

I have the same problem when I install the sample data on one of my server.
I find out that if I disable SELinux, the sample data was installed without any problem.

[ghost]

Thanks. I'll add this to troubleshooting in the documentation.

[roman204]

hmm did the git checkout master but now a new error throws
PHP Fatal error: Declaration of Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface\Proxy::getGroups() must be compatible with Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface::getGroups($withDefault = false, $codeKey = false) in /var/generation/Magento/Store/Model/StoreManagerInterface/Proxy.php on line 8
[UPDATE] but after deleting the var/generation/* it works

[danslo]

Clear your var folder.
On Aug 16, 2015 10:13 AM, "Roman Hutterer" [email protected] wrote:

hmm did the git checkout master but now a new error throws
PHP Fatal error: Declaration of
Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface\Proxy::getGroups() must be
compatible with
Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface::getGroups($withDefault = false,
$codeKey = false) in
/var/generation/Magento/Store/Model/StoreManagerInterface/Proxy.php on line
8

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[kokoc]

The fix for this issue is delivered. Could you please verify it?

[miguelbalparda]

@kokoc i faced the same issue today. Only 'git checkout master' worked.

[mrfroasty]

Replacing getWriteConnection() with getConnection() works as well ....

[piotrekkaminski]

It should be fixed now.