as a logged in user, attempt to upload a file at http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
browser shows Unknown error: "unknown".
javascript error console shows
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php
but the api URL responds properly to a casual query
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Mark: I'm taking the liberty of assigning this to you, but this is mostly to get this on MM team's plate to be fixed before Thursday's branch cut. If it can't be fixed, determining where it broke and reverting before Thursday would be ideal.
PHP fatal error in /srv/common-local/php-master/extensions/CommonsMetadata/LicenseParser.php line 51:
Argument 1 passed to CommonsMetadata\LicenseParser::sortDataByLicensePriority() must be an array, null given, called in /srv/common-local/php-master/extensions/CommonsMetadata/DataCollector.php on line 310 and defined
Change 136986 had a related patch set uploaded by Gilles:
Avoid trying to sort licenses when there are none
Change 136986 merged by jenkins-bot:
Avoid trying to sort licenses when there are none
Gilles/Gergő: As the patch has been merged: Is more work needed to fix this problem, or can this ticket be closed as FIXED?
We might want to check how this could happen in the first place; IIRC the code always passes an array so something funny must be going on. The direct problem has been fixed though.