Merged K 3.0.0b1 Installation stalls

Thanks for the report!

No, it's not anything that blocks popups -- to me it looks like that PHP is trying to load the old version of the file, which of course fails.

Do you have APC or some other PHP accelerator turned on in your site? Because of the issue looks like file caching issue.

Hmm.. Does chrome have a tool where you can follow ajax calls (like FireBug in FireFox)? And does the installation work in FF?

If there's a tool to find out what requests and replies are sent, we can pretty easily find out what's happening during the installation. Also looking into php error logs should help, there's probably fatal error among the last entries in the log.

I have not installed any 3rd party accelerators.

The Joomla cache settings are:

Cache	ON - Progressive caching
Cache Handler	File
Cache Time	45

Chrome does have developer tools with inspect element or I could install FF and Firebug, this will have to wait until later when I've finished work.

With Chrome using the developer tools, this shows in the console

I tried with IE10 and hit the same issue.
The site is just used as a test, something that is automatically refreshed once a week. If a kunena dev would like admin access to test an install themselves, [strike]please pm me[/strike] please drop me an email?

Try to disable all extentsions on chrome and try again, maybe a chrome bug..

I did try that and then I tried IE10.

Same issue every time.

It is possible that this problem is isolated to the server platform. I have one question and only one question for David: can you create a bare-bones, nothing-else-added, J! 3.0.3 website, do nothing to that website except install K 3.0.3b1 and tell us if you were able to install it without any errors, please?

I've explained this technique in When all else fails, try this

Looking forward to your response.