Entity 'nbsp' not defined

[Lycoris]

This is my first time posting here. Usually I can figure my problems out but this time I'm stumped. I had a data mishap earlier, thankfully I had backups, and I thought I had everything working. I noticed after the backup over half of the users avatars were missing. I thought I knew how to fix that, I was wrong. All I've done is created a new problem.

Half the time when I log in I'll get a full screen error that says,

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 5 at column 36: Entity 'nbsp' not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

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I can still get into the forum just fine and everything, but that will pop up when a user logs in. I want to fix the error so it stops popping up. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Kindred]

well, fist things first...


smf version?
url?
mods installed?

what "data mishap" did you have?
Did you recover form it by restoring a backup?  Backup of the database and/or files?

avatars missing?  missing as in - not present - or missing as in - broken image icon?

[Lycoris]

SMF- 2.0.8

The site is currently set as a registration-closed private site so providing a url probably wouldn't do much good, but I can if needed.

Mods- prior to the current incident I had SimplePortal, Who Is Viewing This Page?, Spoiler Tag, Dice Roller BBcode, Aeva Media, and Float BBCODE. Currently no mods are installed.

Mishap- I was attempting to integrate a chat-room for the site, but it didn't work. I reverted to a backup and noticed the avatars disappeared. It's around this time I noticed the error. You have to log in and out for it to appear.

Backup- I restored using the Backup Database option within SMF. I took the copy it provided earlier this morning before I did any tampering and loaded it onto the main database.

Avatars- Broken image icons is the more accurate way to phrase it.

More info- The error quoted in the original post is occurring less and less now for some reason. When I posted this I could log out then back in and the error would pop up. After just trying to get it to appear I logged in and out five times with no occurrence. I waited several minutes, tried again, no error.

[TehCraw]

Anything interesting in SMF's error log?

[Kindred]

just as a note...   the backup option in the SMF admin is unfortunately not a safe way to backup
(we have removed the option from 2.1, completely)

to take a backup of the database, you should use the backup options from your host control panel or phpmyadmin/export.

Additionally, realize -- that backup is ONLY the database...   it does not include any of the site files.

Finally...   there is no option to RESTORE a database from the smf admin -- so I assume that you restored directly into phpmyadmin?

So - if you restored the database, but not the files --  why were your mods uninstalled? Did you manually remove them?
(also, please note, you really should upgrade to 2.0.9, since that was a security release)


I would have to see the actual error to debug further...
(and, as Carvin mentions.... is there anything in the smf error log? What about your server side error log?)