[SOLVED] Installed Drush, not working: "Warning: popen() disabled" "Warning: fgets() expects parameter 1"

In the log of the attempted Drupal Update (in previous message) I saw these instructions:

Drush needs a copy of the PEAR Console_Table library in order to         [error]
function, and the attempt to download this file automatically failed.
To continue you will need to download the 1.1.3 package from
http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table, extract it into
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib directory, such that Table.php exists at
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/Console_Table-1.1.3/Table.php.

So I went to this location:
http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table/download/1.1.3

and I saw and used this code:
Easy Install
pear install Console_Table-1.1.3

Attempted Table Installion

Here is the log of my attempted table installation.

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/php]# cd /php/drush/lib
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/php/drush/lib]# pear install Console_Table-1.1.3
WARNING: "pear/Console_Color" is deprecated in favor of "pear/Console_Color2"
Did not download optional dependencies: pear/Console_Color, use --alldeps to download automatical           ly

Warning: popen() has been disabled for security reasons in Guess.php on line 242

Warning: fgets() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in Guess.php on line 243

Warning: pclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in Guess.php on line 252
pear/Console_Table can optionally use package "pear/Console_Color" (version >= 0.0.4)
downloading Console_Table-1.1.3.tgz ...
Starting to download Console_Table-1.1.3.tgz (9,253 bytes)
.....done: 9,253 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Table-1.1.3
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/php/drush/lib]#

Best Wishes,
Stephen

Tried Drush Update again

I saw that the attempted table installation had some warning messages in the log. But, I thought I would try a Drush update again to see if it would work. This is a log of that attempted update.

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# drush up
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
unlink(/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/package.xml): No such file or      [warning]
directory drush.inc:691
The drush command 'up' could not be found.  Run `drush cache-clear       [error]
drush` to clear the commandfile cache if you have installed new
extensions.
Drush needs a copy of the PEAR Console_Table library in order to         [error]
function, and the attempt to download this file automatically failed.
To continue you will need to download the 1.1.3 package from
http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table, extract it into
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib directory, such that Table.php exists at
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/Console_Table-1.1.3/Table.php.

Manually Installed Table

Since the log said that I need to manually install the table, I went to this location: http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table and downloaded the 1.1.3 table. I then went into my Cpanel and uploaded the table zip file to /home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/ and extraced the file into that location. Then I attempted to clear the Drush cache, as shown in the log below. (I got interrupted yesterday morning in the middle of this and had to come back to this morning (1:43 am), so I'm not sure if I remember everything I did, have included the log anyway.

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# drush cache-clear drush
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
unlink(/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/package.xml): No such file or      [warning]
directory drush.inc:691
The drush command 'cache-clear drush' could not be found.  Run `drush    [error]
cache-clear drush` to clear the commandfile cache if you have
installed new extensions.
Drush needs a copy of the PEAR Console_Table library in order to         [error]
function, and the attempt to download this file automatically failed.
To continue you will need to download the 1.1.3 package from
http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table, extract it into
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib directory, such that Table.php exists at
/home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/Console_Table-1.1.3/Table.php.

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# cd
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~]# drush cache-clear drush
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638                                    [warning]
'drush' cache was cleared.                                                                         [success]

Morning Check

This morning I went into my Cpanel files section and verified that the table is located at: /home/mylogin/php/drush/lib/Console_Table-1.1.3/Table.php.

Now, to check the situation this morning, I cleared the drush cache and I also attempted a drush update so that I could get a current log printout:

Cleared Drush Cache

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# drush cache-clear drush
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
'drush' cache was cleared.                                             [success]
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]#

Attempted Drush Update

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# drush up
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons exec.inc:150             [warning]
proc_open() has been disabled for security reasons backend.inc:376     [warning]
proc_open() has been disabled for security reasons backend.inc:376     [warning]
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~/public_html/drupaltestsite]#

Stephen

Where is the usr folder?

In the log I see these instructions:

disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.

I have looked all through the cPanel files section and can not find the "usr" folder, in which the php.ini file is supposed to be located. However, in looking through the Drush Status report (below) I see that there is a usr folder listed by PHP executable AND PHP configuration. Yet, I still haven't found it. I need to find it so that I can check my configuration settings.

Drush Status

This morning I discovered the Drush Status command.

mylogin@mycpanel.com[~/public_html/drupaltestsite]# drush status
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in /usr/local/lib/php.ini or
in your drush.ini file; see examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
 Drupal version                  :  7.25
 Site URI                        :  http://default
 Database driver                 :  mysql
 Database username               :  ********
 Database name                   :  ********
 Database                        :  Connected
 Drupal bootstrap                :  Successful
 Drupal user                     :  Anonymous
 Default theme                   :  bartik
 Administration theme            :  seven
 PHP executable                  :  /usr/bin/php-cli
 PHP configuration               :  /usr/local/lib/php.ini
 PHP OS                          :  Linux
 Drush version                   :  6.2.0
 Drush configuration             :
 Drush alias files               :
 Drupal root                     :  /home/mylogin/public_html/drupaltestsite
 Site path                       :  sites/default
 File directory path             :  sites/default/files
 Temporary file directory path   :  /tmp

Stephen

Stefan, thanks for you input. I'm a little hesitant to contact the web host because, at this point, I don't know what I'd ask them to do. Because they are an India based company I have to be very specific in what I say to them, otherwise they don't understand. So, before I contact the web host I thought I'd do a little more research and see what I can figure out.

In doing more research I ran across this web page: [SOLVED] [HOWTO] How to install Drush via PHP PEAR on your cPanel/WHM shared hosting server account On the page I found a link to this page: http://www.6by9.net/drush-on-an-hosting-fix-using-custom-php-ini/ .
On that page
"The fix is easy – you simply have to give drush its own php.ini file with looser security. The benefit here is that the Apache web server will run PHP in a more locked-down mode, but drush will operate with full permissions. SSH into your server and run the following commands:"

mkdir -p ~/.drush
cp -i /usr/local/lib/php.ini ~/.drush/

Using PUTTY in my home directory I entered the above code. Then, to see if it changed anything, I again entered a Drush Status command:

mylogin@mycpanel.com [~]# mkdir -p ~/.drush
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~]# cp -i /usr/local/lib/php.ini ~/.drush/
mylogin@mycpanel.com [~]# drush status
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638      [warning]
The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values:                [error]
disable_functions. This configuration is incompatible with drush.
Please check your configuration settings in
/home/mylogin/.drush/php.ini or in your drush.ini file; see
examples/example.drush.ini for details.
exec() has been disabled for security reasons bootstrap.inc:638        [warning]
 PHP executable        :  /usr/bin/php-cli
 PHP configuration     :  /home/mylogin/.drush/php.ini
                          /home/mylogin/.drush/php.ini
 PHP OS                :  Linux
 Drush version         :  6.2.0
 Drush configuration   :
 Drush alias files     :