[The Librarian]

Originally Posted by MortysTW

Alright, I know you said you OVERWROTE everything by re-uploading. For whatever reason, I've come to find when helping others around here, that things don't always get overwritten.

All the .php extension files that are in the /arcade/ directory should be deleted. THen deleted the arcade.php that is in your forum root /forum/arcade.php

Once you've deleted those, then go back and upload the php files like you just did.

I know it sounds stupid, but its been the solution for my issues in the past and some others that I've helped. Maybe we can break this curse of yours.

UPDATE: And a bit of GOOD, Yes, Morty - GOOD news!

What you suggested didn't work. Sorry. I tried deleting everything and re-installing, but it still didn't work...

So I googled a bit and found THIS

which I tried on my test forum and IT WORKED!!!! YIPPEEE!!!

The games install. HOWEVER, I still am getting this error:

Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /arcade/functions/tar.php on line 794

But the other error which stopped installation completely can be solved by doing this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~quote from NickTheGreek at ibpdownloads.com~~~~~~~~~~
This is the solution:

Open the /tar.php file

edit the line :

var $tar_unpack_header = 'a100filename/a8mode/a8uid/a8gid/a12size/a12mtime/a8chksum/a1typeflag/a100linkname/a6magic/a2version/a32uname/a32gname/a8devmajor/a8devminor/a155/prefix';

to:

var $tar_unpack_header = 'a100filename/a8mode/a8uid/a8gid/a12size/a12mtime/a8chksum/a1typeflag/a100linkname/a6magic/a2version/a32uname/a32gname/a8devmajor/a8devminor/a155';

in simple english, remove the /prefix that gives the error

I did that and everything works fine, on both www.yourforum.gr ( IPB 2.0.4 + Cyber's MOD Arcade ) & www.invisiongames.org ( 2.1.7 + ipbcoding.com Arcade 6.1.0 )

The issue is not the arcade but the TAR unpacker.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~end of Nick's post~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So thank you Nick, and thank you Google...

and thank you Morty for trying.

At least that problem is solved.


I'm still going to keep looking for a solution for this:
Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /arcade/functions/tar.php on line 794

I did find this: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=4896

I can't tell if they're talking about the same thing though.