By MarkCos on

Hello,

I am having serious problems with links disappearing from the Admin section. Its very strange. I logged out the other day and everything was fine. I log back in now and I have no links under 'Create content' and under 'Site building' I only have 'Blocks'. If I try and navigate directly to, for example, the themes page I get redirected to the Site Building page.

I am using Version 6.2.

Any help greatly appreciated.

M

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vm commented

try clearing all your cache tables in the DB and report back

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MarkCos commented

Tried that but no luck. Logged out, emptied the 7 cache tables and logged back in.

I am using the Framework theme.

It is the third time this has happened, the last 2 times I added a 'Contact Form' module and that 'appeared' to cause some admin links under the Site Builder to disappear. Both times I removed the database and installed again. This time I stayed away from the contact form and everything seemed ok. I had been working on the site for 3 days with no problems. It had happened with the default theme previously so I dont think the theme is the problem.

Here are 2 images showing the Admin Panel & Create Contact page minus the links :

http://www.ire-land.com/Admin-Panel-1.gif
http://www.ire-land.com/Admin-Panel-2.gif

Dunno if this would help but in the user table the 'data' field of the Admin login contains : a:1:{s:18:"admin_compact_mode";b:1;}

Thanks for your quick response.

M

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MarkCos commented

No luck so I wiped the database and started again...again! Im guessing something must have happened when trying to update a page.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Next time it happens: try switching to a basic theme such as Garland. This way you can rule out the theme you are using.

Edit: My apologies. Just read your post again. You tried that already.

Would you mind sharing with us which browser you are using?

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zorph commented

Did anyone ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem. It seemed to start when I added the header image module. I can't access the themes or modules page even if I type in the uri directly. I would greatly appreciate some help.

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zorph commented

I deleted my entire site, downloaded the new version of Drupal and carefully re-installed.
Next I ran the update on my database.
Now everything is back to normal.

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progkiller commented

you just clear the cache using any method in the link below and everything will be normal again.

http://drupal.org/node/42055

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tejbir commented

Same thing happen during installation of webform, actually it can happen during any module installation,
SOLUTION
after many trial and errors and GOD grace
just run http://yoursite/update.php

every thing will be all right

u can take a backup of ur database for safety before doing this.