I have just upgraded my site from 5.17 to 5.18. The content_type for forums is not listing a type - forum . Hence when a new forom post is made it publishes but is not showing . Tracker lists it as do the blocks and it is listed as forum topic in content, but it is uncategorised content so is not showing. I cant edit the content type because thats illegal, so when I try to add in the edit page forum i get the illegal system entry message .
The upgrade apart from this went fine in all areas and nothing was logged as in eorror and all is working . Except of course this issue. Comments can be added fine to existing forum posts but of course the content type is missing so posts can't be edited to move to a forum.
Can someone please suggest how I might fix this , please . A plan of attack would be appreciated very much.
By fluxrider on
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It seems the taxonomy module
It seems the taxonomy module , namely categories , has been adversely affected by the use of phpfreechat . Shortly after the upgrade to 5.18 the phpfreechat was enabled on forum nodes . This has resulted in the forums content type being removed from categories. forum is listed as a type in content_type , and is showing the correct type under create content , but no type is listed under categories . The vocabulary is correct and all terms (forum topics) are listed , and Taxonomy access control is all set up correctly - when I edit the vocabulary the forum type is ticked and greyed out and all looks good , but if I save this as is , I get illegal action report . So I guess the database has been altered by the use of phpfreechat being enabled for forum nodes .
I have disabled and uninstallled phpfreechat module , but nothing has changed . I'm thinking now that if I had a backup of the database pre the upgrade to 5.18 I could revert , and reinstall 5.18, but The backup of the database I have is corrupt , and the host ( whom I am about to leave for a host with php5 amd mysql 5 ) has supplied me with a backup file short of nearly 50 tables.
I do have a back up file from May 8th complete , but the site is quite active with many users and posts added since then , so I'm looking for a way of fixing things without losing a large number of content and users.
::sigh:: . My new host has auto backups of the database so that will be good , and I know I'm in this situation because I did not backup the database correctly pre 5.18 .
If I just go ahead and upgrade the site to 6 , is this likely to restore the taxonomy and associated tables to a correct state do you think ?
fixed
Fixed. For any one else who has content type problems with forums I finally found the answer here. Just run the queery as posted in this post . WOOHOO
http://drupal.org/node/169384