Question Install Error

Kunena installation will usually fail if you enable debug mode after failed installation.

This is because of there may be SQL statements that have already be run. Some of them will fail on the next run. Unfortunately debug mode is unforgiving when it comes to SQL and halts the installation to an error.

Debug or not, same error. Never seen a flat out installation error if it's permissions related without some sort of notification in the status bar as to what folders it was trying to write to and could not.

A couple things to start with:

Please do NOT set Joomla to DEBUG when installing Kunena. Joomla will abort hard on any failed query. There are several queries that are allowed to fail. If they do we know how to handle the condition. If in ebug, Joomla aborts without our code getting a chance to do something about it.

Please do not set Joomla logging to maximum, it will slow down your installer so much that you will not be able to install a big package like Kunena due to timeouts.

Can you make a screen shot of what you see so we can have a look at it?
What is your php timeout set to? (sorry if I asked that before).

Any permission problems are encountered by the Joomla Installer itself, not the package. The only file copies we make thart could get impacted by permissions, report any such problems in red on the install screen.
We have no control over the Joomla installer. If it fails due to permissions, there is no way for us to know about it or to alert you about it.

fxstein

The only error message I get is the initial screen shot I posted at the beginning of this message.

The PHP timeout shouldn't be an issue as I've tried it as a local install and it doesn't seem to work. Plus, Community Builder installed which normally is the longest biggest package that reaches that timeout phase.

I can see my PHP Info... what value would I look for to answer the timeout question properly?

post_max_size 55M
upload_max_filesize 50M

Both are way beyond the installation package of Kunera.

Hmmm.

So you have one 1.5.6 setup, that the install works fine but on another 1.5.9 it does not?

The error is not a Kunena error, so the Joomla installer is deciding to abort for some reason. Usually that is a permissions issue. Do you use the ftp option in the backend?
Does the com_kunena directory exist on that box in /components or administrator/components?

I am sure this is a very basic issue. It is just very hard to diagnose from one message to another.

Hope this helps!

fxstein