admin permissions gone bad

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hmm you might be correct on that Nexialys.

Anyway, you should only remove those files that belong to uninstalled (or never fully installed) modifications.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok.. what I meant is...

I removed all EXCEPT: bitfield_vbulletin.xml
whenI removed that...the forums went down completely. so I put that one back.

all the others were off though. So, unless I missed something or it was a random ghost in the machine error. I nixed them all.

(oh by "removed".. to be exact, I mean I changed the files names to end in.... "*.XMLXXXXXXX" (ie making them irrelevant files))

Should I have to turn off all the plugins as well?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please post the exact error you are getting now.

you have to do a simple action when rebuilding bitfields:

1- go to your admincp, open the tab to access the link... do not click it yet
2- go to your ftp, and delete/mode all the bitfields except the vbulletin one
3- click the link to Rebuild Bitfields ...

if you change a page before clicking the rebuild link, your site will be down, because it needs the files AND the rebuild.. you have to do it in a single shot.

if the problem continue to occur, deactivate the hooks system in your admincp, delete the bitfields and Rebuild Bitfields... maybe it is related to a hook.

[fukdawrld]

I'm not sure if u fixed this..but i had the same issue and the suggestions above didn't personally help.


I did this:

This is a problem caused by PhotoPost's VB Gallery. To fix it, run this query:

ALTER TABLE administrator ADD vbgadminperms INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0

Worked like a charm. Good luck

[Opserty]

(For anyone else that comes along...)

Please do not run SQL queries to fix this problem. (As given in the above post)

I have already provided the correct solution in post #5