Problem

On going to any edit a content type page

http://dev.example.com/admin/content/types/promo-badge

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /var/www/vhosts/dev.example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/messaging/messaging.module on line 982

Which is the second-to-last line of this function of the messaging.module:

Why this weirdness?

cannot use string offset as array
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /sites/jonassoftware/www/sites/all/modules/field_placement/field_placement.module on line 706

Another reason for setting up your local dev environment with "domain names" on localhost.

(I think this was the error)
Not Found

The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

(anyhow, this is the solution)

http://localhost/example/www/node/7
(did not work-- home page did though?)

(Not the problem)

eclipse svn authentication canceled

discussion of seemingly related problems:

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.subversive/msg00576.html

http://svnkit.com/tracker/view.php?id=107

Resolution

An error with installing the databases (not visible here, the problematic database failed silently. The duplicate key error below has to do with a database not being deleted on uninstall.)

Update: Apparently all caused by the server name listed as sending, that domain name not resolving.

That domain name is sort of represented as example.net in the dumps below.

Getting identical messages, in one e-mail, regarding two totally separate servers...

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blockquote>
This is the mail system at host mail.democraticmedia.ca.

Page contains only a numeric representation of 'two'

Research:
Menus missing, user login page not found
http://drupal.org/node/161106

content won't display on the administer page, except for the number "2"
http://drupal.org/node/233581

Answer:
The Number 2

This is very embarrassing. I took all these notes and then never recorded the answer, which I know I found.

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [soapenv:Client] The reference to entity "ie" must end with the ';' delimiter.

For reasons not known to man nor beast, on XAMPP on Mac OS X (and not XAMP but another all in one WAMP stack, but not that name either) will not work with the wildcard availability host name (%). It will work (or anyhow may work for you, it worked for Agaric!) with the @localhost for host name.

Resolution

The first step to getting out of the local permissions / server login catch-22 is to know you're in it.

Perhaps you found this page searching for "Permission denied on publickey even though I can log into the server with a public key it doesn't make any sense grrr argh how dare it deny me i created it why won't it work permissions are correct this isn't right" or something like that.

Your problem is that when you run the command without sudo, you don't have the proper permissions locally, and your computer doesn't even try to connect to the server: