Edit 1 - More error information, below:
I normally rebuild systems rather than upgrade them. I first rebuild my system with a virtual machine as a test. I am having a problem with mediawiki.
Working system: Fedora 24, mediawiki 1.26.4-1 php 5.6.27-1
New system: Fedora 25, mediawiki 1.27.1-1 php 7.0.13-1
I have followed the normal process to backup/restore the database and file system that has worked many times before, and ran the upgrade script. Now though, when I pull up the wiki home page I get this error:
Exception encountered, of type "Error"
[WDi085SSXW4b8deWoT2rTgAAAAA] /wiki/ Error from line 161 of /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php: Class 'Wikimedia\PhpSessionSerializer' not found
Backtrace:
#0 /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php(939): MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler->setManager(MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager, CachedBagOStuff, MediaWiki\Logger\LegacyLogger)
#1 /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php(58): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->setupPHPSessionHandler(MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler)
#2 /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php(120): MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler->__construct(MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager)
#3 /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/Setup.php(741): MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler::install(MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager)
#4 /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/WebStart.php(137): require_once(string)
#5 /usr/share/mediawiki/index.php(40): require(string)
#6 {main}
Any suggestions as to troubleshooting this would be appreciated.
Edit 1: More Information:
Note this problem also occurs trying to upgrade mediawiki in place on Fedora 24 as shown by the errors below:
On Screen:
Fatal error: Class 'Wikimedia\PhpSessionSerializer' not found in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php on line 161
In httpd log file:
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160621 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP Fatal error: Class 'Wikimedia\\PhpSessionSerializer' not found in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php on line 161
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160666 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP Stack trace:
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160675 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 1. {main}() /usr/share/mediawiki/index.php:0
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160681 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 2. require() /usr/share/mediawiki/index.php:40
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160686 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 3. require_once() /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/WebStart.php:137
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160692 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 4. MediaWiki\\Session\\PHPSessionHandler::install() /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/Setup.php:742
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160697 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 5. MediaWiki\\Session\\PHPSessionHandler->__construct() /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php:120
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160702 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 6. MediaWiki\\Session\\SessionManager->setupPHPSessionHandler() /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php:58
[Fri Dec 02 09:34:26.160708 2016] [:error] [pid 3941] [client ::1:59474] PHP 7. MediaWiki\\Session\\PHPSessionHandler->setManager() /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php:939