0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

I can't for my life figure out what problem I have.

I installed/upgraded JooCM 0.9.2 fine through the joomla "gui" but when I try to install JooBB it just stops with a blank screen after thinking for some time. Ftp:ing to the server I find that it has unzipped to an installation folder but it never gets further than that it seems. If if try to install an unpacked version from a folder in /tmp that also stops after "thinking" for a while with a blank screen.

Any ideas?

Edit:
It seems it has updated all the files as they are now dated 14.1.2010.
It is still listing the version as 0.9.1 though.
Do I dared press the "Update" in the installation tab? Or will that erase everything for me as it did when upgrading from 0.7x (which I now know I should have done another way).

Edit2:
It seems about half the files installed. Ftp:ing manually I got the rest in and it seems to work now. Still registering as 0.9.1 though. I hope it will still work.

Re: 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

I going to leave this one to Robbie as I have not experienced any of that, but he will need to know:

Joomla version:
mysql version:
php version:

Jeff

Re: 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

snowblizz,

no, an update do not delete any data. Updates are available since version 0.9.0.

When you allows it, I would like to check it live on your system. If you like, you can send me an email with logins to your db, ftp and Joomla.

Robbie

Re: 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

As far as I can tell this is the Joomla system information:
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Database Version: 5.0.77-log

Database Collation: utf8_general_ci

PHP Version: 5.2.10

Web Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/5.2.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_macro/1.1.2

Web Server to PHP interface: apache

Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.9 Production/Stable [ Vatani ] 9-January-2009 23:00 GMT 

As to permissions, I unfortunately can't really do that. This is on a web-hotel and I actually don't even have access to most of the "stuff under the hood". I have friend who's something of computer engineer who is "responsible" for that.

It might be a problem with the webhost as today when doing this I've noticed that the web-site is acting slooooowly. So it might be timing out while working that is resulting in this.

I could possibly throw up a test Joomla site and test how it works on that, but I'd need to get the permissions somehow and I'm not sure I can get all of them, most likely messing around with the db requires access to the webhost account?

Re: 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

It may be the heavy latency but you are also on mysql 5.0.xx which is pretty old at this point, so that may be a contributing factor.

Apache 1.3 is also very old although I don't think that will cause so much of an issue, but I could be wrong. Mysql is more critical though as I believe mysql moved in 5.1 about 1.5 years ago, so many changes since any 5.0 versions.

Jeff

Re: 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 installation issues

I'm not going to say "definitely" but it seems very likely it was lag being the problem. I tried to re-install it just now and this time it worked. Finally listed as 0.9.2

I do get the following message though but it doesn't seem to impair the forum working. It could be because I already "installed" it once.

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Duplicate column name 'auto_subscription' SQL=ALTER TABLE `jos_joobb_users` ADD `auto_subscription` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0' AFTER `enable_emotions`;

Message

Joo!BB database update failed. Please see previous messages.