Upgraded from 2.0.11 to 2.0.12 and top menus disappeared

Started by assemblytube, September 28, 2016, 02:48:32 PM

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assemblytube

Just did an upgrade from SMF 2.0.11 to 2.1.12 by clicking on the link that appeared in the admin centre.

It said all the tests were successful so I went ahead.

As soon as the update completed, all of the menus at the top of my forum disappeared completely.

I uninstalled and they all came back.

Any ideas on where I should look for a solution?

Thanks

Kindred

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Matthew K.

This actually happened to me last night as well. The site had about 20 modifications and I couldn't isolate very quickly which one was causing it and I didn't have the time necessary to full figure it out. Definitely looks like a commonly installed modification is breaking the navigation.

swordsman1

Happens here also.


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Mods:
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assemblytube

Hi Kindred,
My theme is Dark Modern and my site is http://assemblytube.com/forum/index.php

I have a very large number of mods installed (70+) and have done for a long time without problems.

2 mods in common with swordsman1 are
Ad Managment   3.2
Global Headers Footers   2.0

A mod that I use that directly works with the menu is
6 Custom buttons / tabs with Sub Menus (4) 0.5

Thanks for any clues to a fix.

Illori

can you try to uninstall that custom buttons mod and see if the menu works?

Matthew K.

It happens on two sites of mine with no custom menu mod. Do you have caching on, by chance? Check Admin -> Configuration -> Server -> Caching

Matthew K.

One of the forums I manage that was having this issue had caching on. I turned it off and now the menu doesn't disappear. Seems to be a bug with the new serialise method and the length.

aegersz

... which maybe why SimplePortal's Shoutbox doesn't load shouts (see http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=14380) !

can i assume that the bug lies with SMF and that is affecting the Shoutbox, too ?

perhaps with the change: Fixed vulnerable unserialize() code by converting all instances to safe_unserialize() ?
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assemblytube

Thanks Matthew K.
I turned off server caching and the update worked fine. My top menus did not disappear.

aegersz

yeah BUT you want caching on, don't you ?

I backed off the Upgrade thinking that it will be updated.
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assemblytube

Hi aegerszm
I upgraded because there is something in the upgrade about PayPal compatibility and I was concerned that my paid subscriptions might not go through if I did not upgrade.
I have no idea if the upgrade would have an effect there because I do not understand it enough, but I know something in PayPal changes today 30th September 2016.

I agree that a fix that allows the cache to work with the upgrade would be the best option. I guess it will be affecting a lot of SMF websites if it is not fixed.

Best wishes.

shawnb61


I was nervous about the patch due to these threads.

After applying the 2.0.12 patch in my test environment, my top menus disappeared.  But they returned after a while as I logged off my admin account & logged back on as a regular user to take a look around. 

So, for me, the issue was fleeting. 

I applied the patch to my prod site, and there were no issues whatsoever.   

Notes on my caching setting & notifications, in case folks are exploring the idea it may be a caching issue:
     Both my test & prod site have caching set to Level 1.
     Both sites do, however, report this: "SMF has not been able to detect a compatible accelerator on your server."

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If you have no compatible accelerator, it will fall back to the file cache. Which is where the problem is due to the serialise routine used by the cache and specifically the (new) unserialise routine deciding that there's too much data and just dropping it.
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butchs

I am not using those mods; however, I have custom menus.  I was able to see the menus as a regular user using another browser but when I logged in they disappeared.  I removed upgrade for now by adding "action=admin" to the end of the string.

I have cache and I do not disagree that may be the issue.  But I want to  review the code before reinstalling.

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butchs

It appears to be the editor.js changes are affecting the menu script via cache.  I will try again during off hours and reset the cache.
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aegersz

it was reported in another post to remove the length test for exceeding 4096 in Subs. php (search: 'exceeds') but despite this, my issues with Simple Portal still persist.
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Burt

I'm also not able to upgrade to 2.0.12 as the entire menu disappear after upgrading. I do however use Menu Editor Lite...


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