How to manually disable private module [#201125]

Okay, so everything new that gets posted on my site is now invisible to everyone but the admin. That's me. I have read your documentation and tried to figure out what to do about it, but it makes no sense. Please help me fix this. It seems other people have reported this bug and you started a patch but never finished it. Please advise.

Comments

Comment #1

morningbird commented 15 December 2007 at 01:16

I've found a workaround. I have to set the access settings so that everyone can see private material. Which makes this module useless to me and means I can never delete it.

Comment #2

charliecheney commented 13 April 2008 at 21:41

I have the same problem. And if I try to disable or remove the module it leaves the whole site unaccessible. I don't need the module anymore an would really like to remove it asap as I want to upgrade to 6.2 and can't while it's still installed, can I?

Comment #3

messenger commented 13 June 2008 at 06:56

Have you tried rebuilding the permissions after uninstalling? Rebuild Permissions is an option you can find at
http://www.yoursite.com/admin/content/node-settings or by navigating to Administer ==> Post Settings.

Comment #4

matts31415 commented 26 June 2008 at 23:32

After installing this "Private" module we had several random blocks that would not display to unauthenticated users, so its definitely a permission issue. Also, I would get a 500 internal server error when i tried to disable the module.

What I had to do was using FTP, manually remove the Private directory (and its contents) from the modules folder. Since the private_uninstall() wouldn't run automatically via drupal, you simply need to issue the command DROP TABLE private; directly to your mysql server.

Once you've manually removed it, do what messenger recommended and rebuild your permissions. So thanks messenger, that was the final key to solving this problem.