I am having trouble with the module installation page of the Admin section. Basically, there are three modules which will not install properly;

myReviews
wfsection 1.01
wfsection 2.0.1

The installations (I suspect it was caused initially by myReviews, since I have had no luck installing any version of that) failed, and the display showed an unnamed module in the installed section. It looks like this;



Trying to get info or uninstall did not work. I tried removing the directories, that didn't work either. As far as I can tell, the section is not linked to anything at all, and that's why it doesn't respond. The original installation error was, I think, something to the effect of a module file not being found. Subsequent attempts to re-install one of those modules will fail, and leave me with another bad entry in the table (I renamed it to 'bad1', and now I have a 'bad2' and a 'bad3' as well). Rebaming the entry, or setting it active/inactive, are the only things I can do with them.

How do I fix this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

-Lion

sounds like you may have put the containing directory of the module rather than the module itself

if you check inside the "wfsections" directory you uploaded into modules, what files are listed in that directory?

At this point, I just want to get rid of the bad module listing in the XOOPs Admin menu. I'm hoping there's a file that can be edited to do that.

Here's the file listing of what's in the /wfsection1 module directory (which has since been relocated outside of the modules directory altogether - putting it back in doesn't fix the problem);

-bash-2.05b$ ls -la
total 144
drwxr-xr-x 13 lionheart lionheart 1024 May 24 12:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 lionheart lionheart 512 May 24 12:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 9821 Jun 28 2003 article.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 blocks
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 4051 Jun 2 2003 brokenfile.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 class
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2106 Jan 7 05:16 comment_delete.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2102 Jan 7 05:16 comment_edit.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2100 Apr 11 09:28 comment_new.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2102 Jan 7 05:16 comment_post.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2104 Jan 7 05:16 comment_reply.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2446 Jun 15 2003 download.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2050 May 24 2003 footer.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 286 Jun 11 2003 header.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 helper
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 html
drwxr-xr-x 6 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 15653 Jul 1 2003 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 5 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 language
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 2882 Jun 20 2003 print.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 6070 Jul 2 2003 ratefile.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 9736 Jun 17 2003 submit.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 lionheart lionheart 512 Nov 2 2003 templates
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 4739 Jun 3 2003 topten.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 25774 Jun 19 2003 wfsupdate.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 lionheart lionheart 4980 Jul 2 2003 xoops_version.php
-bash-2.05b$

Thanks for your time, David!

-Lion

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36228&forum=20&post_id=157945#forumpost157945
read this for uninstalling module!

Catalin,

Thank you very very much!! That fixed the problem and showed me some other things to look at to fix other possible issues too! Just knowing where these functions are located is a huge help to me.

I wish you well.

-Lion

ok no problem Lion!Regards!

I just accidentally put a language folder in the modules directory and got the "module file Language not found...." message.
catalin12345, your post helped me figure out what I had done because I had no tables in the database and nothing appeared as a blank module "name" in the xoops_modules table.
Thanks