Question [Merged topic] K 1.6 needs "autodetect" for integration with JomSocial

Just did an upgrade from K1.5.9 to K1.6 RC1 on a Joomla 1.5.20 site.

Process went without problems.

I recreated all the main menu links but whenever I select any of them I get blank pages.

With debugging on nothing came to light but when I set error reporting to maximum I get this :

Fatal error: Call to a member function getAllowedCategories() on a non-object in /home/safnet/public_html/components/com_kunena/class.kunena.php on line 517

Heres the output from report configuration settings :

Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct

Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Enabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 2000 seconds | Max execution memory: 128M | Max file upload: 64M

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.0-RC1 | Build: 3173 | Version name: Kujadili | Kunena detailled configuration:

Warning: Spoiler!

[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

board_title	S.A.F Community
board_offline	0
board_ofset	0
offline_message	<h2>The Forum is currently offline for maintenance.</h2> Check back soon!
enablerss	1
enablepdf	1
threads_per_page	20
messages_per_page	20
messages_per_page_search	15
showhistory	1
historylimit	6
shownew	1
jmambot	1
disemoticons	0
template	default
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	1
catimagepath	category_images/
showchildcaticon	1
annmodid	62
rtewidth	700
rteheight	300
enableforumjump	1
reportmsg	1
username	0
askemail	0
showemail	0
showuserstats	1
showkarma	0
useredit	1
useredittime	0
useredittimegrace	600
editmarkup	1
allowsubscriptions	1
subscriptionschecked	0
allowfavorites	1
maxsubject	50
maxsig	300
regonly	0
changename	0
pubwrite	0
floodprotection	5
mailmod	0
mailadmin	0
captcha	1
mailfull	1
allowavatar	1
allowavatarupload	1
allowavatargallery	1
imageprocessor	gd2
avatarquality	80
avatarsize	2048
allowimageupload	0
allowimageregupload	1
imageheight	4096
imagewidth	4096
imagesize	10240
allowfileupload	0
allowfileregupload	1
filetypes	zip,txt,doc,gz,tgz,pdf,png,jpg,jpeg,gif,xls,docx,xlsx
filesize	10240
showranking	1
rankimages	1
avatar_src
fb_profile
pm_component
userlist_rows	30
userlist_online	1
userlist_avatar	1
userlist_name	1
userlist_username	1
userlist_posts	1
userlist_karma	0
userlist_email	0
userlist_usertype	0
userlist_joindate	1
userlist_lastvisitdate	1
userlist_userhits	1
latestcategory
showstats	1
showwhoisonline	0
showgenstats	1
showpopuserstats	1
popusercount	5
showpopsubjectstats	1
popsubjectcount	5
usernamechange	0
rules_infb	1
rules_cid	1186
rules_link
help_infb	0
help_cid	1
help_link	www.bestofjoomla.com/
showspoilertag	1
showvideotag	1
showebaytag	0
trimlongurls	1
trimlongurlsfront	40
trimlongurlsback	20
autoembedyoutube	1
autoembedebay	1
ebaylanguagecode	en-us
fbsessiontimeout	1800
highlightcode	0
rss_type	thread
rss_timelimit	month
rss_limit	100
rss_included_categories
rss_excluded_categories
rss_specification	rss2.0
rss_allow_html	1
rss_author_format	name
rss_word_count	0
rss_old_titles	1
fbdefaultpage	recent
default_sort	asc
alphauserpoints	0
alphauserpointsrules	0
alphauserpointsnumchars	0
sef	1
sefcats	0
sefutf8	1
showimgforguest	1
showfileforguest	1
pollnboptions	4
pollallowvoteone	1
pollenabled	1
poppollscount	5
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polltimebtvotes	00:15:00
pollnbvotesbyuser	100
pollresultsuserslist	1
maxpersotext	50
ordering_system	old_ord
post_dateformat	ago
post_dateformat_hover	datetime
hide_ip	1
js_actstr_integration	0
imagetypes	jpg,jpeg,gif,png
checkmimetypes	1
imagemimetypes	image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png
imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
thumbwidth	32
hideuserprofileinfo	put_empty
integration_access	jomsocial
integration_login	jomsocial
integration_avatar	jomsocial
integration_profile	jomsocial
integration_private	jomsocial
integration_activity	none
boxghostmessage	0
userdeletetmessage	0
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topicicons	1
onlineusers	1
debug	0
catsautosubscribed	0
showbannedreason	0
version_check	1
showthankyou	1
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popthankscount	5
mod_see_deleted	0

What is your jomsocial version on that server? You could try disabling jomsocial integration to see if the pages render.

You should see errors in the apache error log.

Thanks for the reply.

Ive got JS uninstalled right now to do the horrible upgrade process it requires every time theres a new version, I had 1.6.289 but I am planning to go to 1.8.7

Could it be this that is the cause? (uninstalled just now)

I just looked through config again, it had retained Jomsocial specific selections for some of the integration settings

Switched to autodetect and its happy, many thanks for the clue.

I think this is important enough to make a sticky topic for the Jomsocial category! Thanks very much for reporting the matter.

No probs, I googled "com_kunena/class.kunena.php on line 517" and saw results for a number of sites that seem to report the error so I reckon Im not the only one to hit this.

Im not sure that autodetect is needed for JS, its more at the time I encountered the error and posted the integration settings in my Kunena had retained the previous "Jomsocial" specific settings from my Kunena 1.5.9 install when I had Jomsocial 1.6.289 uninstalled in preperation to reinstall 1.8.7, I merely switched to "Autodetect" and found that reverted Kunena to using its own system in the abscence of Jomsocial.

Further, now Ive just reinstalled JS 1.8.7 Kunena has now switched from its on system back to using the JS information while the integration settings are still set to "autodetect".

Happy to have helped