By jeyro on
While generally I have been able to update error free, this time it has gone wrong.
After updating from 6.0 to 6.13 all content appears on white, non formated (non-template) pages. Going back to the previous 6.9 version and its database gave the same error. Now I'm back again at 6.13 with white background/no template pages. There were no error messages during the database updates. All content appears to be working fine.
I suspect that I might have missed downloading/backing up an ftp file (in sites? or a specific setting?) before the update. But I have no idea where the error is. Or is it something inherent to the update? It appears to affect the template only.
Could someone point me into the right direction how to fix this?
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Anyone? The connection to
Anyone?
The connection to the template system needs to be fixed. In pure html I would take me a few seconds. Can anyone give me on tip on where to check and how to do this?
having the same problem
but on a 6.12 -> 6.13 upgrade. Only shows this unexpected behavior in IE. Both firefox and safari look good.
The same problem, limited to
pls see below
The same problem is shown at
The same problem is shown at http://drupal.org/node/523530, yet limited to IE. The connection to the template system is lost.
There's got to be a solution to this.... Should I dump my site over a template issue?
the plot thickens
Not sure the specifics of your setup, but here is some new information;
I'm not convinced its a drupal 6.13 issue. At the time I upgraded 6.12 to 6.13 I took the opportunity to install Ubercart. After the upgrade I started getting calls from my client using IE 7. I didn't know what to do, so I figured I'd roll back to 6.12. Then they told me the problem went away. Well I was on another project for a week, and when I came back to revisit this site I realized the ubercart module hadn't been enabled since the roll back. So I enable it and sure enough, the template breaks in IE 7. Going in deeper, the template breaks progressively depending on what UC modules are enabled. ie. when one module is enabled, the formatting on the links break. when I enable another one, the background breaks. Its totally bizarre. Are you certain its not a module issue on your site?
... and further. Thanks for
... and further. Thanks for this Sean.
That *is* strange behaviour and looks like it may be related to Ubercart. This site does not use Ubercart. Your experience gave me the idea to successively start turning off modules to see if it would make a difference.
Turning off all non-core modules made no difference - problem remains. Next, with all non-core modules disabled, I successively disabled optional core modules and re-enabled them when it did not make a difference. Finally:
- Turning off the core "color" module brought the template system back for both FF and IE 8. -
(This is a two site multisite [one code base, two databases] setup. The same goes for the second site. And turning the core "color" module on again for either site reverts back to a broken template system for that specific site. As I see it, the issue is not related to the multisite setup.)
So we have first causes.
Did you have a look at the color module yet?
I do recall that the color module had some caveats, but not for an upgrade. What would cause the color module to break the template system this way?
For the record, I was able to
For the record, I was able to fix my original issue.
I added an empty sites/default/files/color directory. It looks like I had missed backing up the original and lost it. Putting back this file structure revived things, after enabling/disabling each of the themes.
The similar, but different ubercart issue concerning missing templates in IE is also fixed. It involves style sheet behaviour with solution here: http://drupal.org/node/541324.
Hope this helps anyone who experiences these issues.