Important Uncaught Exception: Another menu item has the same alias in Root.

I am working with a fresh install of Joomla 1.6. When I attempt to install Kunena 1.6 I get the following error message:

.. FAILED Uncaught Exception: Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent

I've seen others having this same problem, but I don't know if anyone has offered a solution. Can you help?

Remove all references to the
forum from all menus and
menu sure to empty the
Trash! Maybe you have some
other link in the menu alias
forum, it too must be removed.

Hi Guys/Gals.

I'm having issues installing Kunena.

The Kunena forum could not be installed!

Prepare Installation ... OK
Create kunena_version ... OK
Uncompressing com_kunena-admin.zip ... OK
Uncompressing com_kunena-site.zip ... OK
Uncompressing com_kunena-media.zip ... OK
Installing language English (United Kingdom) ... OK
Installing System - Kunena plug-in ... OK
Create kunena_announcement ... OK
Create kunena_attachments ... OK
Create kunena_categories ... OK
Create kunena_config ... OK
Create kunena_favorites ... OK
Create kunena_groups ... OK
Create kunena_messages ... OK
Create kunena_messages_text ... OK
Create kunena_moderation ... OK
Create kunena_polls ... OK
Create kunena_polls_options ... OK
Create kunena_polls_users ... OK
Create kunena_ranks ... OK
Create kunena_sessions ... OK
Create kunena_smileys ... OK
Create kunena_subscriptions ... OK
Create kunena_subscriptions_categories ... OK
Create kunena_thankyou ... OK
Create kunena_users ... OK
Create kunena_users_banned ... OK
Create kunena_whoisonline ... OK
Install Sample Data ... OK

... FAILED Uncaught Exception: Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent

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PHP Built On: Linux p3nlhg531.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 18:43:13 EST 2011 i686
Database Version: 5.0.91-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.17
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.6.0 Stable [ Onward ] 10-Jan-2011 23:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

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I'm pretty new to Joomla and Kunena. The only thing I've installed is Joomla and a Hot Sportal Theme and demo data I bought to use with our website.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I've read through the forums but honestly, not familiar with going into SQL or deleting the menus and if I do delete the menu's I think it'll mess up my current portal theme that is in use.

Thank You in advance.

Serina

Hello,

This should help you : www.kunena.org/forum/advsearch?q=FAILED+...name=1&childforums=1

Hi,

I did find a workaround that seemed to solve the problem.

Someone wrote somewhere that the installation is complete, but the system think it's not.
Based on this assumption, I commented the following line in the file: /var/www/joomla/administrator/components/com_kunena/install/model.php

if (! $table->bind ( $data ) || ! $table->check () || ! $table->store ()) {
// throw new KunenaInstallerException ( $table->getError () );
}

Clicked the reinstall button, and then Kunena was running fine...

Geir Ole

I went into the model.php like suggested above and then FTP'd the file back up. It gave me the option to run the install again and successfully installed. WOO HOO. Thank You!