By cbdebris on

I upgraded to 6.15 from 6.14 and I get this error when I try update.php:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in /home/user1/public_html/includes/theme.inc on line 934

When I try to access the site (I'm logged in as admin) the error is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in /home/user1/public_html/includes/menu.inc on line 2476

I have removed and replaced the 6.15 files at least a dozen times today. I have all the folders in place and everything has the right permissions. I've cleared caches. Yet the errors continue.

Any ideas? I looked at other people's problems, but I don't have another installation of Drupal in my sites/all/modules folder, so that didn't help.

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cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

maybe one of your modules has a bug. Did you deactivate them first? If not, you will either need to turn them off in the System table or simply move the modules folder from sites/all to see if you can launch

:)

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cbdebris commented

Unfortunately moving the modules folder didn't help. Still have the same errors.

Further thoughts?

cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

Hmmm

If user_access is "undefined" you may have not got all the files needed for Drupal. Can you re-unpack the distribution?

:)

cbdebris’s picture

cbdebris commented

I've downloaded three times. I've unpacked twice for each. I've uploaded the files more than a dozen (as explained in my original post).

What is so different from 6.14 that these problems would occur with a simple update? I've been working with Drupal for several years and have never encountered these difficulties.

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gpk commented

That function lives in modules/user/user.module. Is the file present and what are its permissions?

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

cbdebris’s picture

cbdebris commented

Modules folder: 7 5 5
User folder: 7 5 5
User.module: 6 4 4

Does user.module also need to be 7 5 5? Because nothing else in the User folder has permissions 7 5 5 -- they all have 6 4 4.

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cayenne commented

Heck, give it a try... whaddya got to lose?

:)

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cbdebris commented

The files that are mentioned in the fatal errors -- menu.inc and theme.inc -- show in the includes folder. I looked at the server with different FTP programs, after deleting the folders and loading folders yet again from a freshly unpacked release of 6.15.

I also set user.module to use permissions 7 4 4. The same errors occurred. So I set the permissions back to 6 4 4.

I tried changing permissions to 7 4 4 for menu.inc and theme.inc. The same errors occurred. So I set the permissions back to 6 4 4.

I can see install.php and it says "Drupal already installed," so my choices are to upgrade or install using a different database. Either link brings me to the fatal errors. I confirmed that update.php exists on the server.

Further suggestions?

cbdebris’s picture

cbdebris commented

Had to edit the database table system to resolve the issue.

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gpk commented

Glad you got it fixed. Sounds like user.module didn't get properly enabled during install. Not quite sure how that might have happened!!

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

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nakfgh commented

Hi Guys,

I have the same problem on my site. Can someone show me how to edit the 'system' in my website's database?

mckersten’s picture

mckersten commented

Hi,

I ran into the same issue. For the time being I just removed the if statement.
That seems to work.

Grt Michiel