By lionheart8 on

Hi

I updated Drupal from 6.14 to 6.15. Everything seemed to run well. I also updated a few other non-core modules.
For some reason now, links on content submission pages and some others such as taxonomy new term creation page are inactive, making it impossible to do some tasks. I dont mean the links in the menus, but on those pages with the different options.

I re-enabed all modules I had disabled during the update.

What could be causing this?

Thanks in advance

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devnyc commented

This can sometimes be caused by z-index being too low. Not sure how or why upgrading would have caused that though - z-index is a css attribute.

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devnyc commented

Keep us posted - I've got to to that upgrade this week.

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lionheart8 commented

Hi

It is certainly not a general problem, because I have updated 2 other sites from 6.13 & 6.14 respectively to 6.15 with no problem. I have also not seen any posts in the forum of people with similar problems since 6.15 was released.

This particular site, which is with another webhost apparently got this problem sometime last night & in the course of the day, I noticed some other problems including these error messages on every page:

# warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1421916 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /mnt/web3/50/59/52222059/htdocs/includes/file.inc on line 190.
# warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1421916 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /mnt/web3/50/59/52222059/htdocs/includes/file.inc on line 190.
# warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1421916 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /mnt/web3/50/59/52222059/htdocs/includes/file.inc on line 190.
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According to the error message, it has something to do with "safe_mode" being enabled, something Drupal does not function normally with according to several forum posts referring to this error message. It seems they turned on this safe mode sometime early today.

I checked the site's phpinfo() & noted that "safe_mode" was apparently on. When I downloaded the exact copy of the site onto my PC, with Xampp server, the site functions with none of these issues. the same phpinfo() page shows the default settings with safe_mode "off". So I think this is or is part of the cause.

I have written my host (www.strato.de) to inform them & ask them to turn it off but they are a very difficult lot as they are slow to respond & if one is very lucky, you get someone who understands the problem responding.

Please free to carry out that very necessary security update or any other. ;).