I'm mystified by this error message. I have three categories, each with empty forums. From the index page I can't connect to an empty forum let alone attempt to create a topic. This is regardless of my user group or whether I am a moderator. Even as webmaster I can't connect.

On one forum the moderator has somehow managed to create a topic and I can transfer to that and from there I can create new topics or reply to the existing one. Other than that I'm locked out.

I notice from another thread about a similar problem that template corruption may be an issue but it remains after I rebuild them. I have also stepped through the permissions thing and feel that I've got it right but would appreciate detiled advice on this.

Any recent upgrades?

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To newbb2? Not really. Its a new install, but having said that I have just upgraded XOOPS itself from 2.0.7 through to 2.0.13.2 and during that process have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled newbb a couple of times. The essential thing though is that it hasn't actually been used.

Well, now that I think about it, yes. I installed newbb and setup a couple of forums and some dummy topics. Then I unistalled it entirely and installed newbb2 and recreated the category structure from scratch.

Are you suggesting remnant scrap in the db structure somewhere?

Sorry for the delay had to get some sleep.

What I was asking had actually two meanings. A recent upgrade from newbb 1 to newbb2/CBB could cause this, if not done correctly or completely. Or, during a XOOPS upgrade, of the 2.0x versions, if you upload the newbb folder in modules (which are files for newbb 1) can mess up your newbb2/CBB install. The fix for the latter is to delete the newbb folder from the modules directory and re upload the full version you are using.

I think this is what happened to yours.

You were quite right. I did a complete deinstall - which incidentally did not remove some tables so I deleted them manually (using CocoaSQL actually).

Then a fresh reinstall of newBB 2.0.2 and everything is now sweet. Thanks for the clues!