Hi Mike and Adam,
Through the update process and moving to systemd for the UNIX Agent I think I
found some documentation errors. How should I submit my suggested corrections?
On 11 February 2026 3:32:00 am NZDT, Mike Stupalov via observium
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>There was a small trouble in the scripts that generate the community build,
>which caused variable names to get “lost”.
>
>The main CE archive has been updated with the fix.
>But any other installation can be fixed by applying a patch that replaces this
>file:
>
>sudo wget -O /opt/observium/includes/community.inc.php
>https://www.observium.org/files/community.inc.php.fix
>
>Roland Hill via observium wrote on 09.02.2026 08:55:
>> Hi team,
>>
>> Thanks again for releasing another CE version. I run this in my home lab so
>> I always appreciate your updates when you are able to do this.
>>
>> I followed the steps as provided on your document site
>> (https://docs.observium.org/updating), as I have done previously without
>> issue.
>>
>> When I ran "/opt/observium/discovery.php -u" I got the following message.
>>
>> Any guidance when you have time would be a big help please.
>>
>> ======
>>
>> ops! Something went wrong! You may want to report this to the Observium
>> developers.
>>
>> syntax error, unexpected token "=", expecting variable in
>> /opt/observium/includes/community.inc.php:5
>>
>> Stack trace:
>>
>> #0: (unknown function) called at
>> [/opt/observium/includes/community.inc.php:5]
>> 1: <?php
>> 2:
>> 3: // stub functions for not exist features
>> 4: function cache_groups() { return []; }
>> 5: function get_type_groups( = NULL, = TRUE) { return []; }
>> 6: function get_groups_by_type( = NULL) { return []; }
>> 7: function get_group_entities(, = '') { return []; }
>> 8: function get_group_entities_array(, = '') { return []; }
>> 9:
>> 10: // EOF
>>
>> #1: require_once called at [/opt/observium/includes/observium.inc.php:73]
>> 68: db_config();
>> 69: $GLOBALS[OBS_DB_LINK] = dbOpen($config['db_host'], $config['db_user'],
>> $config['db_pass'], $config['db_name']);
>> 70: }
>> 71:
>> 72: // Include more necessary supporting files
>> 73: require_once($config['install_dir'] . "/includes/functions.inc.php");
>> 74:
>> 75: if (!isset($GLOBALS[OBS_DB_LINK]) || !$GLOBALS[OBS_DB_LINK]) {
>> 76: if (db_skip()) {
>> 77: print_warning("NOTE: Database connection skipped by request. Database is
>> not connected.");
>> 78: } elseif (isset($options['V'])) {
>>
>> #2: include called at [/opt/observium/discovery.php:19]
>> 14: chdir(dirname($argv[0]));
>> 15:
>> 16: // Get options before definitions!
>> 17: $options = getopt("h:i:m:n:p:U:dfquaMV");
>> 18:
>> 19: include("includes/observium.inc.php");
>> 20: include("includes/discovery/functions.inc.php");
>> 21:
>> 22: $cli = TRUE;
>> 23:
>> 24: //if (is_cron()) { $options['q'] = TRUE; } // Set quiet for cron
>>
>> ======
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>
>--
>Mike Stupalov,
>Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GjpNXKWm8W
>Observium Limited, https://observium.org
>
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