Question Upgrade from joomla 1.0.15 / fireboard 1.0.4 to joomla 1.5.12 / kunena 1.5.3

carsten888 wrote:

I've just used the migration plugin. It exports 11 tables. The fresh install of Kunena has 15 table.
these 11 table:
jos_fb_categories
jos_fb_groups
jos_fb_messages
jos_fb_messages_text
jos_fb_moderation
jos_fb_ranks
jos_fb_sessions
jos_fb_smileys
jos_fb_subscriptions
jos_fb_users
jos_fb_whoisonline

Do I then just add the 4 empty tables from a fresh install?

Yup... Same here...

these are missing...
fb_announcement
fb_attachments

tried to replace them with a fresh installation of kunena -> still the same error
replaced it with the ones from FB 1.0.5 and reinstalled kunena -> updated but STILL the same error...

What can I do next?

ALL those tables should be exported. They all exist in FB 1.0.4. Where can I find this migration plugin and why doesn't it import all the tables?

FB 1.0.4 should have also these:

fb_announcement
fb_attachments
fb_favorites
fb_version

Please look that your J!1.0 database has these tables. FB 1.0.4 should not work without all of them.

BTW: fb_groups, fb_ranks and fb_version are missing from FB 1.0.0, but that's ok, they get added by the installer.

well I seem to have solved my problem...

After migration to a clean joomla install (this time, without using FB plugins) I manually copied all fb_ tables from the old database and Installed Kunena.

It looks like this problem is that Kunena on updating assumes that ALL tables are present and skips the table creation process and instead updates them. But can't update a ghost table (if even needed)

So... try this and see if it works for you

ALL the tables must exist. Both FireBoard and Kunena do not work reliably if some of them are missing. So there must be a bug in the migration script.

So if you use that migration script, FireBoard will also break. It just doesn't detect that something has gone badly wrong and happily works until someone tries to attach an image or make a favorite.

Upgrade process does not fix broken installations. It just upgrades working ones.

FB 1.0.4 should have also these:

fb_announcement
fb_attachments
fb_favorites
fb_version

Please look that your J!1.0 database has these tables. FB 1.0.4 should not work without all of them.

fb_version is not in FB 1.04

So I inserted the tables from the migration plugin. Then inserted the missing 4 tables from a fresh install (and now I am painfully slow trying to recreate my config).
But all works!

Seems to work OK, but i found one problem.

After upgrade, in category view, topic count and response count have been reset to zero.

Can this be edited in some way? why did it fail? And what are the db fields that do that counting?