proble with Forums in rwzRaven Nuke76 _v2.02.2_full

New Member Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 4

I installed this package Saturday and ever since I get this error. Have looked all over forums and still unable to find the solution. Any hepl is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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phpBB : Critical Error

Error creating new session

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1054 Unknown column 'session_admin' in 'field list'

INSERT INTO nuke_bbsessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_admin) VALUES ('d8115c543ffef0495f477d2919e12eed', 1, 1145840755, 1145840755, '477ca4c2', 0, 0, 0)

Line : 187
File : sessions.php

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:37 pm

Well, looks to me like you upgraded from a previous nuke installation and not a fresh install of RavenNuke76. What version of Nuke was this originally and what version of the forums?

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:50 pm

I had upgraded from PhP Nuke Version 7.5, Forum version ????, I forgot (poop!) But it was prepackaged with 7.5.

Thanks

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:18 am

Ok, as expected. Had you upgraded your 7.5 database to 7.6 first? What was the process you went through to get from 7.5 to RavenNuke76 2.02.02? These steps will be important to figure out if you have more potential issues lurking in the background.

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:50 am

Yes, I ran the upgrade script from 75 -76 first and got the message that it was succesful. Than I did as the instruction in the Raven prepackage version suggested. However, I didn't run the "step 1"(core files) of the install database, as I didn't want to lose all my data, But I did run Step 2,3 &4. Except for the forum ( and Memberl list) all is OK. I really don't want to drop the entire DB, but if I have too I will and start fresh. Members won't be happy, but I can live with that.

Thanks

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:50 pm

Get the forums upgrade scripts that Raven posted. Should solve your problem

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:27 am

evaders99 wrote:

Get the forums upgrade scripts that Raven posted. Should solve your problem

Thanks Evaders99 for the suggestion. I did try the upgrade patch but, it didn't work.

In Addition, my website has been attacked again from some very "shameful people". So has a result I decide to do a fresh install and start from scratch.

Thanks all for the help

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:39 am

suntzucr, you are so close, I hope you did not give up already! Have you tried this:
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This download was referenced in the 2.02.02 "Post Fixes" forum... You really are just a few table changes away from success here. Don't give up so quickly.

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:42 pm

I have just done an upgrade from standard nuke 7.5 to RN 2.02.02
Here is the method I used.
I created a copy of the original DB so I had the original as a back-up.
I upgraded the forums using the forum upgrade files - upgrade17-18.php onwards.
I used the nuke upgrade file to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6

Then I ran in phpmyadmin the sql file - rn76_nsngroups.sql to add the groups tables.
Then the rn76_sentinel.sql to add the Sentinel tables
Then I ran the INSTALLATION/installSQL.php selecting ONLY the IPtoCOUNTRY data install.

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:53 am

We sure do need in the "HowToInstall" guide a section on "Upgrading to RavenNuke76 from Previous Nuke Versions"... anyone care to tackle that? Wink

New Member Joined: Jul 05, 2006 Posts: 23

montego wrote:

We sure do need in the "HowToInstall" guide a section on "Upgrading to RavenNuke76 from Previous Nuke Versions"... anyone care to tackle that? Wink

i agree

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:12 am

montego wrote:

We sure do need in the "HowToInstall" guide a section on "Upgrading to RavenNuke76 from Previous Nuke Versions"... anyone care to tackle that? Wink

I guess that will be me then but only after I've completed my current work load AND I will only look at core nuke upgrades/downgrades. I'm not interested in working on upgrading/downgrading the likes of Platinum, pcNuke, Nuke Evolution etc etc.

Hangin' Around Joined: Dec 07, 2006 Posts: 41

lol. why didn't i come across this thread before i tried to upgrade?

i upgraded a 7.5 site to rn by running all sql upgrades except the core db. everything is fine, except the site is stuck in one theme.

not sure what to do next. any ideas?

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:12 am

Assuming you have more than one theme installed you would need to compare the table structure from the old DB gainst the Raven Nuke one.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:39 am

it's okay now. i uploaded a backed up 7.5 db. i tried to upgrade it to 7.6, but couldn't understand some of the stuff i was getting. lol. i uploaded a 7.5 config.php, cleaned my cookies and everything is okay now.

despite uploading a 7.5 db, it appears it has retained the extra tables from the rn install. weird, but i'm content that i won't have to take the whole thing down and ftp 7.5 to upgrade to 7.6 to upgrade to rn.

next step i have to do is to replace the config.sys from 7.5 with one from rn incase something else happens.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:07 pm

Some of the tables have aditioanl fields to support the built in nsn groups module, that might be where yur problem lie but if you had any errors reporting when

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but couldn't understand some of the stuff i was getting

we might have been able to give you a clearer picture.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:36 pm

i did not install the core tables, but i installed the nsn group tables and the nukesentinel tables.

what i didn't understand was "You must set a value for admin_file in config.php" - which was already set in the rn config.php that was there when i ran the script first. when i uploaded the config.php file for 7.5 (which does not have the line), it said the same thing.

the site seems to be running okay with a 7.5 db, but i will likely post if there are any other issues that might need addressed.

if anybody know the differences between the 7.5 and 7.6 tables, maybe they could draw my attention to them.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:20 pm

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if anybody know the differences between the 7.5 and 7.6 tables, maybe they could draw my attention to them

That is precisely why you need to compare the two database structures.
You may have third party modules that have altered the core nuke tables and there may also be differences in the forum tables depending on which version you were using before installing Raven Nuke.

There are so many variables it's not possible to 'guess' but I'm sure you let us know if you encounter any problems Smile

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6433

A quick way to compare DB table structures is to export the tables without data to a text file, then use a file comparison tool to identify the differences. There are some tools that claim to compare databases, but I haven't found a good one yet. Hopefully, it's because I haven't looked hard enough.

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:19 am

kguske, have you tried "MySQL Diff"? I used it recently to compare 2.02.02 to 2.10.00 and came up with the same differences that fkelly did with his more manual comparison approach.

Sorry for this being OffTopic

Was just offerring it up as a possible alternative.

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:19 am

montego, i'll give that a go. thanks.