Tried to rewrite config by module without initial config

Created on 6 June 2025, 4 months ago

Problem/Motivation

In Drupal 11.2 the module installation was changed. See Issue #3416522 → . Installing multiple modules does not rebuild the container between installations. So using config_rewrite when installing a module's dependency leads to an error.

Steps to reproduce

Install a module with a dependency to another module and config rewrite for that module.
For example:
my_eu_cookie_compliance.info.yml

name: 'My EU Cookie Compliance Settings'
type: module
core_version_requirement: ^11
dependencies:
  - 'config_rewrite:config_rewrite'
  - 'eu_cookie_compliance:eu_cookie_compliance'

config/rewrite/eu_cookie_compliance.settings.yml

cookie_lifetime: 100

Installing my_eu_cookie_compliance leads to folling error:
Tried to rewrite config eu_cookie_compliance.settings by my_eu_cookie_compliance module without initial config.

(This is not a problem with eu_cookie_compliance. I just used it in this example, because that's how we found this behavior.)

When container_rebuild_required is set to true in my_eu_cookie_compliance.info.yml, everything works as expected.

🐛 Bug report

Status

Active

Version

1.6

Component

Code

Created by

🇩🇪Germany hosterholz

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Comments & Activities

Issue created by @hosterholz
Comment 3 months ago →
🇺🇸United States jrockowitz Brooklyn, NY
Attached is a very ugly workaround that (re)enables container rebuild for all modules as they are installed in Drupal 11.2+.

I don't think this is the best solution. Ideally, when a config rewrite is about to happen, the container could be rebuilt, but I couldn't figure out how to achieve this.
Comment 26 days ago →
🇮🇳India vishalkhode
With Drupal core 11.2, they've added a new key i.e container_rebuild_required → . That needs to be added in module's info.yml.

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