Merged K 3.0 buttons display constant names

Upgraded to Joomla! 2.5.11 and upgraded Kunena to V3 and the buttons are showing the contstant name rather than the value.

Switched templates to Blue Eagle 2.0 with no change.


Screen shot of buttons




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I suspect that the non-translation of the symbolic names was caused by a botched installation or you have not added the necessary non-English language transactions for your website. Did you look at the language pack options for K 3.0?

This case my be similar to one we dealt with a long time ago, here: www.kunena.org/forum/K-2-0-Support-Archi...with-no-title#127243

The upgrade installation reported as completing successfully and I was rather hoping for a reinstall to be a last resort effort, but hey ho!

Ok removal and reinstall of V3 done --- No change, and it doesn't allow a roll-back to V2.

Any clues to where I can start fixing it manually?

chrishirst wrote: ... it doesn't allow a roll-back to [K 2.0.4]

That is not entirely correct. The K 3.0 Upgrade Guide - I assume that you read it - explains how to roll-back to K 2.0 (and retain any messages posted on your forum) providing you did not uninistall Kunena before you attempt to downgrade from K 3.0 to K 2.0. Uninstalling Kunena will remove all evidence of Kunena from your website (including any configuration, categories or topics that may have been posted on it).

This is why the K 3.0 Upgrade Guide and the notes in the K 3.0.0 Read Me make the important point about the need to take a backup of your website before you upgrade. If you have a reliable backup of your website, taken before you attempted the K 2.0.x to K 3.0.0 upgrade, you can always revert to the way your site was operating before you attempted (and possibly failed) with an upgrade. This advice is the same when you do any install or upgrade of any Joomla extension your website. Good preparation is the watchword when doing any software installation or upgrade.

While the K 3.0 upgrade process is normally reliable (and I have to say that I have used the process many hundreds of times and I have never encountered any problems), no-one can make any guarantees and it would be reckless of us to suggest that the process is guaranteed 100% of the time or that the process has a 0% risk of failure.

The process of installing (or upgrading) and operating Kunena in a multi-lingual website is complicated. I admit that I have no experience in these matters. Perhaps other members of the community, who have a broader experience may have their own thoughts, who may be able to shed some light on the problems that you have had.

Joomla is also complicated. Sometimes Joomla gets itself into a knot when an upgrade goes awry and sometimes it requires detailed understanding of how Joomla processes extension upgrades (and where the information about these upgrades is stored) to unravel issues that may arise when something goes pear-shaped. This area is outside the scope of what we can handle in a simple (or even in a dedicated, one-on-one support) way via a web-based discussion forum.

chrishirst wrote: Any clues to where I can start fixing it manually?

There are always ways that people, who understand the internals of website management, of database management and of Joomla internals, can do things "manually"; obviously the answer depends on the know-how, the skill, the patience, the time and, perhaps, the amount of money that you have to work through the issues. It is unfortunate that sometimes things don't always work as well as we would hope they should work (and you should know that our thoughts are with you that you will resolve things as quickly as possible) but, although the question is easy to ask, the answer is difficult to prescribe in each and every case.

The first place that I would suggest you start is to create a test site on the same server where you are now hosting your [broken] website. Start with the basics:

1. J! 2.5.11
2. The basic Joomla template (e.g. Beez)
3. Joomla SEO enabled and a valid .htaccess file
4. A reliable backup tool (e.g. Akeeba Backup)
5. K 3.0.0 with no changes made to it. In other words, Kunena "out-of-the-box"

... and see how this works.

If, as I suspect, the test site works then you can add extra things (like other languages) until things "break". That's my suggestion and I hope that this may be a way to identify what happened that caused the problems that you are now having.

There are always ways that people, who understand the internals of website management, of database management and of Joomla internals, can do things "manually"

Yes and being one of those people is why I asked the question.

I would prefer not to have to 'reverse engineer' the entire code obviously.

That is not entirely correct. The K 3.0 Upgrade Guide - I assume that you read it - explains how to roll-back to K 2.0 (and retain any messages posted on your forum) providing you did not uninistall Kunena before you attempt to downgrade from K 3.0 to K 2.0

Did that, that's when I got the "It is not possible to downgrade ..." message.