error on upgrade to 5.3

Question

upon upgrade from 4.7.31 to 5.3 the site could not load any civi pages, it would give a generic error message.

in the log I see:

Civi\Payment\Exception\PaymentProcessorException: CRM_Core_Payment_PayPalImpl: Payment processor type is not defined! in CRM_Core_Payment_PayPalImpl->__construct() (line 73 of /var/www/xxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Payment/PayPalImpl.php).

but this site does not use paypal, it uses authorizenet so I have no idea why this is causing a fatal error

my temp workaround was to just comment out line 73 of PayPalImpl.php but I'll need to verify that payments still work. Anyone else have a similar issue with 5.3?

Answer 1

I posted this to gitlab here https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/issues/250 and the issue turned out to be related to odd records in my database.

this query, from Elieen exposed the bad row

SELECT p.id, p.name, p.class_name, p.is_active, pt.id, pt.class_name, pt.name
FROM civicrm_payment_processor p
LEFT JOIN civicrm_payment_processor_type pt ON pt.id = p.payment_processor_type_id
+----+--------------------+----------------------+-----------+------+----------------------+---------+
| id | name               | class_name           | is_active | id   | class_name           | name    |
+----+--------------------+----------------------+-----------+------+----------------------+---------+
|  1 | Dummy Processor    | Payment_PayPalImpl   |         1 |   10 | Payment_Dummy        | Dummy   |
|  2 | Dummy Processor    | Payment_Dummy        |         1 |   10 | Payment_Dummy        | Dummy   |

so I updated the row in civicrm_payment_processor to change Payment_PayPalImpl to Payment_Dummy and everything works without the modification to civi code.

Answer 2

I have had the same message after updating from 5.2.1 to 5.3.2. I have 2 sites, neither have any contributions configured, either thru paypal or anyone else. Both sites were upgraded. The other is working fine but this one cannot get into civi from drupal entry.

Civi\Payment\Exception\PaymentProcessorException: CRM_Core_Payment_PayPalImpl: Payment processor type is not defined! in CRM_Core_Payment_PayPalImpl->__construct() (line 73 of /mysite/public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Payment/PayPalImpl.php).

I took the advice of editing out line 73 and all is good.