I just installed XOOPS 2.0.15, and everything is working perfectly.

Now I put new blocks - recent news and top news..into left and right center positions ...and they are showing e'thing is fine

now i go and change the length of text from 25 to 50..and now the blocks have disappeared..i changed the length back to 25..and still no sign of the blocks..

??? whats the problem..all the permissions e'thing seems to be alrite

...alrite i got it..

when u go to edit your blog..you have to select "which news categories to show posts from"

this should be selected "ALL" as default..coz if you do not go into EDIT..it does show up all the categories...

CH

I've had exactly the same problem !!!!
You have to update the module, then the blocks appear again, unfortunately with the default charcter lengt of 25 chars....

But at least they appear again.
I asked the dev of this (otherwise) great module. You can change the default value in the file called /xoops/modules/news/xoops_version.php
find and modify 25 in this two lines :

published|10|25|0|0|0|0||1|||||| and in

counter|10|25|0|0|0|0||1||||||

then don't forget to update the module.

That should do the trick, at least: it did for me!!

Suc6 and greetz,