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demicoma

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 13:34

I wanted to test comment moedration, so I logged in as a test user. Now, I cannot logout and cannot administer. In the left menu, it shows adminstration, but on clicking does not give administration menu. It keeps showing logout although I logged out .. Help.

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larsneo

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 14:24

logout should be possible via user.php
regarding the menulinks i guess you've an bug within your permission schema - thus showing 'wrong' links.

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demicoma

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 14:44

The point is, without admin menu available, how do I modify anything?

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larsneo

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 14:58

logout via user.php / login via user.php

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demicoma

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 15:20

The problem is somewhere else. I can see the administration and logout links in the left menu when I visit the homepage. It is just that clicking on administration does not get the admin menu. This is after I tried to login as a simple user from the same IE screen..to check whether ordinary users could post comments...after logging out and logging in as admin, I cannot get the admin menu..

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larsneo

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 15:38

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I can see the administration and logout links in the left menu when I visit the homepage.

this is configured via permissions for the Menublock:: component

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It is just that clicking on administration does not get the admin menu.

this usually means you have no overall admin permission

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after logging out and logging in as admin, I cannot get the admin menu..

clear your local cookies, try to empty (not drop!) the prefix_session_info table and try again

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demicoma

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Posted: 30.10.2006, 16:06

I see the pn_sessions_info table (presumably, prefix translates to what I have). I emptied it (It had so many entries with user id 0...that must have been ONE of the problems). That does not help.

I recollect that while moving to 0.76 (from 0.72 I think), I might have fingered with some of the database entries..as a result of which I often see 0 unlogged and 0 registered users when I login.. It used to correct the error soon..

Perhaps, the present trouble is the end result of that.. Is there a way I can check the integrity of entries in the database?

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demicoma

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Posted: 31.10.2006, 01:05

Has anybody come across a message to the effect 'there are 0 unlogged users and 0 unregistered users' when you visit the site? What could it be due to?

thanks in advance,

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demicoma

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Posted: 01.11.2006, 03:40

Finally, I figured out two things. 1. the 0 unlogged users and 0 unregistered users message is possibly due to Time non-synchronisation. A click on home again gets the status right (it always did). 2. The admin screen was lost while I was trying to deal with the comment spam. I checked the user_permissions table, found only one entry with user_id -1 and permission 300 (comment only), so I added another entry to give admin permission for everything, and things are fine. I wonder whether that is the proper thing to do.....

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