Sub-theme "Version Incompatible" Error

Posted by spiderduo on March 6, 2008 at 7:46pm

I am creating a sub-theme based on the Sky theme for 6.0 which is up and working on my site. I have a folder with my theme name, a .info file and a .css file. When I go to Admin->Site Building->Themes I see a addition to the theme table but it has this message:

"This version is incompatible with the 6.0 version of Drupal core."

I have experimented in every way I can think of and nothing fixes it. Any suggestions? Here is my current .info file:

name = WGJ
description = First theme developed by Spithra for The Web Geek Journal based on the Sky theme.
core = 6.x
base theme = sky
stylesheet[all][] = wgjstyle.css

engine = phptemplate

regions[header] = Header
regions[left] = Left sidebar
regions[right] = Right sidebar
regions[contenttop] = Content top
regions[contentbottom] = Content bottom
regions[contentfooter] = Content footer
regions[footer] = Footer

; Information added by drupal.org packaging script on 2008-02-27
version = "6.x-1.1"
core = "6.x"
project = "wgj"
datestamp = "1204142108"

Comments

Try deleting everything

Posted by Nick Lewis on March 6, 2008 at 8:33pm

Try deleting everything after "regions[footer] = Footer"
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Tried that

Posted by spiderduo on March 6, 2008 at 10:04pm

but nothing changed. I even cut and paste the .info file from another working theme and got the same error. Thank you for your help, I need to get this set up for the site designer to move forward and I'm pulling my hair out!

Try adding this line (as is)

Posted by Nick Lewis on March 6, 2008 at 10:33pm

Try adding this line (as is) under "description"

version = VERSION

Shot in the dark, but its the one difference I see between garland/minnelli, and what you posted.
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Nah -- that's not it. Here's

Posted by Nick Lewis on March 6, 2008 at 10:38pm

Nah -- that's not it. Here's something weird though, I copy and pasted the info file you posted and put in minnelli.info -- and it worked perfectly. I think maybe the base theme, not WGJ is the culprit?
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Seems Dreamweaver is the culprit??

Posted by spiderduo on March 6, 2008 at 10:59pm

The problem seems to be that I open the .info file in Dreamweaver to edit it then post it. When I started all over again but used *only* TextEdit to make my changes, it worked. Its as if the core = 6.x never gets read once its been opened in DW. Doesn't make sense to me, but it did make the error message stop.

Thank you *very* much for your time and attention!

It could be that dreamweaver

Posted by Nick Lewis on March 7, 2008 at 5:38pm

It could be that dreamweaver was using unkosher characters like "smart" quotes....
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I'd like to help resolve this

Posted by Chris Charlton on October 28, 2008 at 6:12pm

I code the Drupal API and jQuery API extensions for Dreamweaver and my extension for Drupal helps recognize .info file but I hadn't noticed an issue myself.

1. What version of Dreamweaver are you using?
2. Do you have the Drupal API extension installed?

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line-endings

Posted by CrookedNumber on April 29, 2009 at 8:26pm

Hey Chris,

My guess is that this is a line-ending problem. This person's DW is not set up properly re: line-endings. It's my understanding that this won't have many adverse effects in drupal -- except for info files, which rely on proper UNIX line-endings in order to be properly parsed.

Just had a similar mystery at my work. IT finally came in and solved it. Very puzzling.

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How did they solve it?

Posted by alienzed on June 11, 2009 at 5:04pm

How did they solve it?

2 things

Posted by CrookedNumber on June 12, 2009 at 8:24pm

1) Open, then save, the file in something other than DW (that has the proper line-endings)

2) In DW, go to Preferences >> Code Format >> Line-break type. Change it to UNIX (LF). Then open the file, make sure all is OK, then save.

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Theme incompatible error

Posted by bigknot33 on July 20, 2009 at 4:14am

I'm getting the theme incompatible error message, and I'm about out of ideas.

The site is one instance within a multisite installation, and the theme works in every other site except one. Maddening.

I've uploaded several contributed themes to this site, and I get the error message with all of them. I tried cutting out various parts of the .info file (with Notepad, not Dreamweaver), and tried uploading with no edits to the .info file.

So, I'm guessing it must be a setting in this site that is causing my woe?

I've searched through the Drupal forums, but no luck so far.

Grateful for any leads.

FWIW, I believe this error is

Posted by edward.kay on May 5, 2010 at 10:14am

FWIW, I believe this error is displayed if there is a syntax error that prevents Drupal parsing the theme.info file correctly.

This could be due to line breaks, file encoding etc, or in my case the fact I had the following line:

screenshot =

replacing this with screenshot = screenshot.png fixed it, presumably because the parsing code didn't slip up on the empty declaration.