System crashed

[Limpy]

I get this error when I try and connect to my forum page..

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare loadSession() (previously declared in /home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/Sources/Load.php:2326) in /home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/Sources/Session.php on line 90

I have tried to reinstall and yet nothing has worked..

Any help would be appreciated..

Thanks,
Chris

[Arantor]

Version of SMF?

[Limpy]

I'm not for sure(I can't remember).. I'm not sure, its probably around 2.0.9 or something around there..

[Arantor]

See, that's the part that's confusing me, because there is no Session.php file in 2.0, only in 2.1, but if you have half a 2.0 and half a 2.1 installation mangled together you would get this error...

[Limpy]

Yes.. It's been awhile since I have been in the admin panel..

When I delete the sessions.php in the source folder, I get this error..

Warning: require_once(/home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/Sources/Session.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/index.php on line 90

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/Sources/Session.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/dfwss23/public_html/smf/index.php on line 90

Guess, I could just delete everything, reinstall and then try to update again.

[Arantor]

That definitely sounds like you have parts of 2.1 smooshed together with 2.0... it would really help to know how you installed this and what you've done to it lately.

[Limpy]

I didn't do anything really.. I logged on to the forum today and seen the error message above.. Couldn't log in and see what version I had, so I just updated to the latest version.

[Arantor]

Yeah.... *how* did you do these things? I can't help you without details.

[Limpy]

I logged in to my site..

Got the error

Logged into the ftp

and updated that way

[Arantor]

Updated with what files exactly?

[Limpy]

2.0.9 LARGE update zip file.. Everything

[Arantor]

I'm sorry but you didn't upload everything from it, or if you did, you didn't actually overwrite the files on your server - because your index.php file was requesting Session.php which does not exist in SMF 2.0.9. SMF 2.0.9's index.php does not ask for that file, meaning you have a 2.1 file there...

[Limpy]

Okay, I gotcha..

I'm going to delete everything and reinstall everything and then update it and start off fresh..

This board is only about 5 years old.

Thanks for your patients with me and quick response