Question system cache plugin + Kunena

When I visited your website —I'm guessing you had the System - Cache plugin enabled—at that time, I saw the the error message you described (and that the CSS stylesheet was not loading). The "error message" appears at the bottom of the page underneath the forum posts.

I'm guessing that this error message is generated either:

a) part-way through the loading of the topic; or
b) after Kunena has finished processing and Joomla is attempting to load other parts on the page.

In either case, the disturbing factor is that the CSS stylesheet is not properly loading.

To better understand what's going on, the first thing to do is to enable Joomla debug mode and follow the trace-back to see which file is being used at the point when the error message appears.

I'm flying blind here because I don't know much about your website. Even if I saw your Kunena configuration report, I am not sure if I can "remotely diagnose" the problem here, on this forum. I'm willing to give it my best shot, however, but I would be very surprised if the System - Cache plugin was the only thing responsible for this problem.

For your information, I rarely enable the System - Cache plugin—not because I distrust it or fear that it will cause problems but simply because I have no use for it in my websites.

I will enable this plugin on a test site and confirm if K 3.0.6 fails to load pages like it does on your site ... and I will report back soon.

My test:

J! 3.3.3 (too many problems with J! 3.3.4, J! 3.3.5 and J! 3.3.6 and I will not be updating Joomla until those problems have [hopefully] been fixed in J! 3.4.0)
K 3.0.6
Joomla Protostar template
Kunena Blue Eagle template
Joomla System - Cache plugin enabled

Global Configuration » System » Cache Settings » Cache = OFF - Caching Disabled
Global Configuration » System » Cache Settings » Cache Hander = File
Global Configuration » System » Cache Settings » Cache Time = 15

No problems detected when viewing categories, topics or posts in topics.

I don't know if this helps or not.

Further testing with same settings as before but with

1) Global Configuration » System » Cache Settings » Cache = ON - Conservative caching

2) Global Configuration » System » Cache Settings » Cache = ON - Progressive caching

In both cases, no problems.

Thanks for looking into this. Will have to create a test Joomla site. If it loads just fine on a fresh install than I will know it's a conflict. And if it doesn't I will know it's some sort of server issue. I'm currently have a pretty nasty fever so my responses might be a little delayed.

Turns out this is because of the integration with EasySocial plugin. Will have to contact Stackideas about this. The issue happens without caching too (was working fine, but something broke probably on an upgrade).