vBulletin 2.2.1 Released - discuss

[John]

Chit chat away!

Please use the individual forums for specific questions!

John

[Craig Armstrong]

.::cracks knuckles::. Here we go! :eek:

[Alwaysmefirst]

The link I have on my control panel about the new version is http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=205570 and it is the thread "Help on forum restore..."??

Olly

[John]

Thanks Olly, fixed now, that was me getting my numbers the wrong way around.

John

[Alwaysmefirst]

Thanks for your fast reply. Going to update the forums now :D :D

Olly

[Jake Bunce]

i assume the changed and new templates are since version 2.2.0? there aren't many template changes at all (that's good!). so all the little bugs were mostly in the scripts themselves?

[John]

Yup, that's it, mostly script changes.

John

[Jamer]

I previously had a lot of problems with e.mail activation, I hope this is all ok now?

Thanks for the upgrade!

[Craig Armstrong]

Nooo!!! Right in the middle of upgrading, my site went down. :mad:

<edit>ok. it's all good. :D</edit>
<edit>sorta. just gotta be patient. i think my host has been doing server upgrades lately.</edit>

[Russell]

Would have been nice to know this was coming,.... because now everything that was hacked, needs to be hacked again again....

Any chance we could get a list of individual files that you've changed? That way, if they aren't ones that have been hacked, it's easy?!?!?!

Sorry if it sounds like I'm Bitching.. don't stress... you guys still have the best forum software ever.

Thanks.

[JTMON]

Originally posted by Russell
Would have been nice to know this was coming,.... because now everything that was hacked, needs to be hacked again again....

Any chance we could get a list of individual files that you've changed? That way, if they aren't ones that have been hacked, it's easy?!?!?!

Sorry if it sounds like I'm Bitching.. don't stress... you guys still have the best forum software ever.

Thanks.

Yes please as I too upgraded to 2.2.0 and then applied some hacks. They all work great too but I don't want to break them and I don't seem to be having the email bug.

[HaTE]

you guys should make vBulletin free

here, i'll start help making it free



get it fast

[LuBi]

I don't believe this will effect my hacks but I did install like 19 hacks on a fresh 2.2.0 forum. Now I have 10 members with more to ocme custom header and a lot of custom templates plus all those hacks. The only problem I saw was I was viewing online.php and a user was in like unknown or something when I clicked the link he was viewing a site and there were two "//" after showthread.php (ex. showthread.php//) so no images worked but he saw the thread, I dunno any suggestions?

[Ifrani]

After Upgrading form 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 I now have a lot of doubled Templates (activateform, gobutton, printthreadbit, quotereply, showpost, threadreviewbit_ignore, whopostedbit... and even more in the Subfolders...).
What happend ?
How could I fix this ?

[Kier]

Originally posted by Ifrani
After Upgrading form 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 I now have a lot of doubled Templates (activateform, gobutton, printthreadbit, quotereply, showpost, threadreviewbit_ignore, whopostedbit... and even more in the Subfolders...).
What happend ?
How could I fix this ? You're absolutely right... I'm trying to find out what went wrong with vbulletin.style right now.

[jackie]

Problems????....Should I abort my upgrade????

[Kier]

Yes. I have fixed the problem but I need John to update the zip file in the members area, as I don't have access to do that.

Until then, don't bother doing your upgrade at all.

[Kier]

Oh, those who have already upgraded, don't worry, no damage was done - when John updates the zip file you will need to download it again and upload admin/vbulletin.style and admin/upgrade14.php.

Then browse to http://yoursite.com/forums/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3 in your forums directory and it will fix the problem.

[Chen]

Ok I swear I'm gonna try and keep up with this discussion thread!

Happy upgrading everyone! :)

[Mark Hewitt]

Hi.

It took me a full day to hack 2.2.0 to get it to work the way I need it to and I'm due to upgrade to it tomorrow - I can't put this off!

I gather there is some problem with registration codes etc? Can anyone tell me which file(s) I need to replace to correct this issue as the last thing I want to do is go through and have to rehack all over again. That would be a nightmare :(

[John]

Mark,

The bug fixes are in the bugs forum.


I have now sorted out the template issue in the vbulletin.style file.

John

[mcncyo]

for some reason i can't get it to download. I am using netscape 6

fix it i have to rename it to .zip instead of .php

[Prince]

Is it possible to find out which PHP files were changed from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1?

Thanks!

[Tommy Boy]

Do I really have to upload ALL the files again, if I already have 2.2.0 installed...?

Instead, can someone please post a short list of files which must be uploaded again?

Thank you.

[Daroz]

Please note that we may, in that period, update the files in the ZIP without notice.

*sigh*

At least he's warning us now....

I would still like to see tighter version number information in the indiviudual files where possible. Really makes updating hacks easier when you don't have to diff 2 versions every time.

-- Daroz

[Alwaysmefirst]

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
Do I really have to upload ALL the files again, if I already have 2.2.0 installed...?

Instead, can someone please post a short list of files which must be uploaded again?

Thank you.

Kier wrote "to upload admin/vbulletin.style and admin/upgrade14.php.
Then browse to ttp://yoursite.com/forums/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3 in your forums directory and it will fix the problem".
This is if you have 2.2.1.
Will try it now. I too have double templates now.

Olly

[evoir]

I had double templates too. The fix fixed it :)

uploaded:
admin/vbulletin.style
admin/upgrade14.php

ran:
http://mysite.com/forums/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3

fixed the double templates. :)

[Marco]

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
Do I really have to upload ALL the files again, if I already have 2.2.0 installed...?

Instead, can someone please post a short list of files which must be uploaded again?

Thank you.

Okay... since apparently it is too much trouble for Jelsoft to do this themselves, here's a list of files changed between the 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 release - according to Beyond Compare :)

/
-announcement.php
-attachment.php
-forumdisplay.php
-global.php
-member.php
-misc.php
-newreply.php
-online.php
-private.php
-private2.php
-register.php
-showgroups.php
-showthread.php

/admin
-bbimport.php
-email.php
-functions.php
-global.php
-index.php
-install.php
-misc.php
-stats.php
-style.php
-templates.php
-user.php
-vbulletin.style

/mod
-global.php
-moderate.php
-thread.php

[JTMON]

Originally posted by Marco


Okay... since apparently it is too much trouble for Jelsoft to do this themselves, here's a list of files changed between the 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 release - according to Beyond Compare :)

/
-announcement.php
-attachment.php
-forumdisplay.php
-global.php
-member.php
-misc.php
-newreply.php
-online.php
-private.php
-private2.php
-register.php
-showgroups.php
-showthread.php

/admin
-bbimport.php
-email.php
-functions.php
-global.php
-index.php
-install.php
-misc.php
-stats.php
-style.php
-templates.php
-user.php
-vbulletin.style

/mod
-global.php
-moderate.php
-thread.php

And what's up with them?! I would think this would have been ready to go along with the release. That only makes sense.

[Raz Meister]

Hmm....I think I'm gonna wait for the 48 hours to be up and receive my email before I upgrade....

[Prince]

newbie question:

If I have hacked a few files, can I leave those files in tact, and just upload all of the new files, or do I need to re-hack the new files?

[s.molinari]

If you've hacked files that have been changed in the new version then you must add your hacks to those files. If you just upload the new files your hacks will be gone.

Here is a list of changed files you can download.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=200904


Scott

[thewitt]

Although I applaud the effort to run Beyond Compare for those of us too lazy to do it ourselves, I would caution anyone using this unofficial list of changed files that they may be incorrect.

Remember that the zip files are dynamically created and what was downloaded at 10:02 today might contain a different list of changed files than what is downloaded at 17:39 today.

Until Jelsoft agrees to provide the definitive list of changed files in the download itself, I would suggest that you still do the comparison yourself so you don't end up with a partial upgrade.

Partial upgrades and template reversions were the bulk of the problems reported in the 2.2.0 upgrade. Yes there was some bugs, but looking back, these were not the bulk of the reported problems...

-t

[Daroz]

Originally posted by thewitt
Although I applaud the effort to run Beyond Compare for those of us too lazy to do it ourselves, I would caution anyone using this unofficial list of changed files that they may be incorrect.

Remember that the zip files are dynamically created and what was downloaded at 10:02 today might contain a different list of changed files than what is downloaded at 17:39 today.

That's why I've been pushing for more versioning information in the files... see this thread for details:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32196

-- Daroz

[s.molinari]

good point thewitt. I agree. I'll add a notice to the thread I made at vB.org.

I also agree that the versioning should be a bit tighter. Ok John said the new version would be a beta for a short while but if you look at the amount of time 2.2.0 was out you could say it too was a beta.;)

I know one thing. This quick release of versions is probably driving pirates crazy!:D

Scott

[Thomas P]

What about the list of changed templates, can somebody second that plz?
-Tom

[Craig Armstrong]

Originally posted by Thomas P
What about the list of changed templates, can somebody second that plz?
-Tom

New and modified templates are listed in the vB 2.2.1 Released (http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33426) thread in the Announcements forum.

[Rick Horwitz]

Come on guys! When you change the downloadable file change the version number so we know what the heck we have!

This is a no-brainer. Don't go UBB on me....

[Jake Bunce]

Originally posted by Rick Horwitz
Come on guys! When you change the downloadable file change the version number so we know what the heck we have!

This is a no-brainer. Don't go UBB on me....

did they? i don't think they did. :confused:

[NetherChris]

Yeah I agree. vbulletin221.zip is more helpful than vbulletin2 :)... but you dont see me whining... if it works, chris is happy :)

[Rick Horwitz]

Yes they changed 2.2.1 sometime today. One of the things they fixed was this: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32500

This is something that was supposed to be [FIXED] nearly two weeks ago, yet it somehow didn't make it to the 2.2.1 November 16 AM release. However... it is supposedly fixed in the 2.2.1 November 16 PM release.

Confusing... you bet.

[Jake Bunce]

in the initial 2.2.1 announcement i remember the showgroups db thing was on the list of fixed things... :confused:

[Hooper]

Is this ready to download and install yet? I am in fear of upgrading anything since the last release.

Files ready yet? I don't see to many posting on the bug fixes and how this release is working for them.

Come on .... Post your experiences please.

[mem]

help:( :(

Today i try to upgrade 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 .

I finished Upgrade script and no error occured.

but my upgraded forum homepage is blank.

My vbb 2.2.0 is working now.

http://www.greenkiss.com/green (big5)

My test vbb 2.2.1 isn't working.

http://www.greenkiss.com/vbb221 (big5, test upgrade)

what happened??

sorry, my english is bad.:( :(

[Thomas P]

Originally posted by Craig Armstrong


New and modified templates are listed in the vB 2.2.1 Released (http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33426) thread in the Announcements forum.

Yes, I can read, thanks so far.

Anyone here with a translated board or customized board, who can acknowledge that? Last time the list was wrong...
-Tom

[george_proost]

:mad:

:mad:

[Alwaysmefirst]

Originally posted by george_proost
:mad:

:mad:

John posted at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33426:
"When the beta period is ended, an email will be sent out to our customers to announce the new version".

I am happy with the current version. No problem so far and the double template problem was fixed.

Olly

[george_proost]

oic

vBulletin 2.2.1 BETA Released

[Alwaysmefirst]

Yes, it was better to put BETA in the title too to prevent any confusion :o

Olly

[LuBi]

So does anyone have any clue when we can expect a final release? I'd really like to do this today, lot's of work cut out for me... :(

[John]

Since it is the weekend now, we plan to send out the email on Monday.

Except for the corrupted file (vbulletin.style) and the old file (showgroups.php) that were in the ZIP, nothing has changed since we did the first release of it.

John

[JohnBradshaw]

So whats going to be in the next big release? I heard somewhere that there would be your own spellchecking code built in, is this true? And what other goodies are we waiting for?!

[flyfisher]

Man, I had a bad feeling... I was going live with 2.2.0 with 21,000 posts converted painfully from UB tomorrow and decided to do the upgrade to 2.2.1 since it was recommended and not supposed to do any harm...

I followed the directions to the letter and the site is now HOSED! I get the extra \" characters all over the place anda nothing works.

HELP!!!:confused: :mad:

[flyfisher]

OK - Just read thru the entire thread. It sounds like I need to go get a couple files and re-run the upgrade script with a new parameter. Bear with me, this is my first vb forum and I am still trying to go live with myfirst vbulletin forum.

Can someone please tell me where I should go to download these files and confirm that I am on the right track?

thanks

[JTMON]

Everything you need should be in the members area at www.vbulletin.com

[Jake Bunce]

did you backup?

...always backup. backups are our friends. :)

[flyfisher]

Jakeman -

Yes, everything is backed up... (a) mysqldump and (b) php files and styles saved in a zip file. The styles/templates have imploded since running the Upgrade14 utility.

I tried copying the original files back and the board is still hosed. I guess I need to blow everything away and restore from the backup.

JTMON -

The only thing I found at the members area was the original download file that hosed my board. There were no indications or warnings or specific files to download/upload and I read the entire members area page. I tried downloading the zip file again, replacing everything on my server again, and the same results occur. Can you expand upon "everything you need is in the members area?"

thanks

[LDT]

Well, I just uploaded the fixed files, ran install.php?step=6 and everything is fine now. :)

[flyfisher]

install.php?step=6? I thought we were supposed to blow away install.php? Where did you get that procedure?

:confused: :mad:

I am a new vb user trying to get my board to go live. When I am looking for information, so far it seems like it is spread over a large number of disparate threads and multiple sites, and at my level of understanding of vB it doesn't coalesce into anything intelligable.

I am trying to resolve a heinous problem that appeared at the eleventh hour with my board after following instructions exactly but the target keeps moving across a "chat" style support environment and there doesn't seem to be one authoritative, concise, buck-stops-here place to get the real scoop on problems and solutions.

Maybe I just don't know where the information source is around here... there are so many disparate discussions I have no idea which one to follow, search, or believe! I thought it might be this one but people keep commenting with information that is coming from somewhere else besides this thread. Anyone want to clue me in?

It looked like this thread might be it... then I was told it was the member page, that didn't pan out. I went to the .org pages and scanned until my eyes were bloodshot, nothing conclusive there...

Is there a single central place where a person just trying to get something done can find the last word on this 2.2.1 problem?

[LDT]

install.php?step=6? I thought we were supposed to blow away install.php? Where did you get that procedure?


Simply by looking at the code of the file. Since my only problem where the templates, I just wanted to clear them out and re-install them. step6 in the install.php does just that. :) For me just calling install.php?step=6 (Running upgrade14.php?step=3 will do the same) saved me from a lot of work and not only this time. ;) If I can help you in any way feel free to contact me via e-mail or other. :)

[Marc Smith]

For what it's worth, in late August I bought vBulletin and imported my former UltimateBB forums into it. The difference between the two is like night and day - but the learning curve with vBulletin has been very steep.

Having run forums, it is true that information is disparate and spread amongst many threads - not just in this forum but any forum you visit. The 'trick', you see, is the search feature.

I don't know what type of system you folks are running on (I'm on a virtual server running FreeBSD on Apache ver 1.3.14, PHP ver 4.0.4pl1, MySQL ver 3.23.22), but from the importation of my UBB forums at the very beginning to this recent 'upgrade', I've not experienced but 1 problem - and it was relatively minor. The 2.2.0 upgrade - and it was in the online.php file which I should have been able to fix myself - but I somehow screwed it up and one of the moderators here (Tubedoggy?) went in and fixed it right away. Within hours! On a weekend, as I remember.

From reading the thread I almost waited until 'the e-mail', but decided what the hey - it's the weekend so light trafffic - shut down, back up the database and upload the new files. So - I did it. Now, I don't really know for sure that everything's OK - not much traffic yet - but it appears to be so far and all my 'tests' have passed so far.

In my control Panel there was a link to postid 205750 which was a quickie that told all the changes - includeing both new templates and modified templates. The change log was also there as well as a link to this thread. The instructions are pretty clear. This is in part what prompted to even reply to this thread. Many of the questions - specifically related to what had been changed - were already answered there.

The biggest problem I had was figuring out how to backup the database. I do understand databases - but I've never used one like this. I'm talking Access, FilemakerPro and several other 'kiddy' databases. The backup function within the vBulletin software would error out on memory if I tried to do the one big dump. After some searchng and experimenting, with my forums turned off this did it for me by telnet:

mysqldump --opt -c -p -q -v forum > forum_bup.sql

--opt Same as --add-drop-table --add-locks --all --extended-insert --quick
-c, --complete-insert Use complete insert statements
-p, --password[=...] Password to use when connecting to server
-q, --quick Don't buffer query, dump directly to stdout
-v, --verbose Print info about the various stages

NOTE: If anyone sees anything wrong wiith my options - please tell me. As I understand it, this dumps everything including structure. Looking at this now I guess I can drom the -q because the --opt does that anyway.

The dump was about 40 megabytes - there were 21,631 posts (the dump included the indexes which I guess I could have emptied first). That seems about right I guess.

The -v is just to let me follow along as it works (I hate just sitting there waiting - I want FEEDBACK!) I also backed up the entire 'forums' directory. I was prepared for a complete hose job listening to some of this chat.

Bear in mind I'm not an IT person nor a programmer - just an old fart trying to keep up my own site. Perl was one thing - php and MySQL are another. I'm learning as I go. If you're new to vBulletin, expect a month or two before you're comfortable with it. As for all the failures noted in this thread, I can say "...brother - I feel your pain..." having gone through some bad times in tuneville with other software. I write this mostly to say - so far as I can tell my upgrade went smoothly.

My one last comment is I have heavily edited many of my templates - but not any of the php files directly. For folks who have done that - you have my deepest sympathy. I've gone through such scenarios with other software as well - mostly with perl scripts.

If'n ya ain't gots patience, try a Valium and/or a smoke! If you're doing it 11th hour - same advice.

[York1]

Im fairly new to vbulletin. I upgraded one of my boards last night.Everything went smoothly except for one little detail
It reset every users password.Is this going to happen every time i upgrade? Did I do something wrong?
If my board users have to do the reset password everytime I upgrade Im going to end up with no users;(

[Steve Machol]

What do you mean it 'reset every user's password'? Passwords are now encrypted but they're not reset.

[York1]

In other words when I went to use the password for my account that work right up untill the upgrade it tiold me it was no good.and gave me an option to reset my password.And so far every user on mny board has encountered the same thing when trying to log in after the upgrade

[Steve Machol]

That's not normal behavior. It sounds like you might have missed a step in the upgrade.

[JTMON]

Originally posted by flyfisher
Jakeman -

Yes, everything is backed up... (a) mysqldump and (b) php files and styles saved in a zip file. The styles/templates have imploded since running the Upgrade14 utility.

I tried copying the original files back and the board is still hosed. I guess I need to blow everything away and restore from the backup.

JTMON -

The only thing I found at the members area was the original download file that hosed my board. There were no indications or warnings or specific files to download/upload and I read the entire members area page. I tried downloading the zip file again, replacing everything on my server again, and the same results occur. Can you expand upon "everything you need is in the members area?"

Also, did you notice that John said the vbulletin.style file was corrupt in the vbulletin.zip file. I believe this has been fixed so you may want to re-download the zip.
thanks

What I meant was that all the files you need to do the upgrade should be in the members area. What exactly are these "other" files you are talking about and what do they do?

[York1]

Exact steps i took to the upgrade
Backedup everything including the DB
Turn the forums off
Uploaded all the new files
Called the upgrade14 PHP file

I assumed this wasnt a normal thing;) Just trying to figure out what i did wrong so it doesnt happen again

[Pady]

well I did the upgrade and had NO problems at all

Thanx for getting a fix out so quick guys is all I can say. - just thankfull that I hadnt started hacking it to bits ...

[fury]

No offense, but I'm going to wait about another week or so, so that I know that most of the deadly bugs will be squashed.

For what it's worth, I would MUCH rather wait a long time for a STABLE release than have a new version 0.0.1 higher than the previous version every 2-3 weeks.

[may]

It's better to wait... V2.2.0 --> V2.2.1

Database error in vBulletin :

Invalid SQL: DELETE FROM template WHERE templatesetid=-1 AND title<>'options'
mysql error: Incorrect key file for table: 'template'. Try to repair it

mysql error number: 1034

Date: Monday 19th of November 2001 08:55:54 AM
Script: /forumtest/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3
Referer: http://www.XXXXXXX.yy/forumtest/admin/upgrade14.php?step=2

Hopefully waiting...

May

[rylin]

Originally posted by may
It's better to wait... V2.2.0 --> V2.2.1

Database error in vBulletin :

Invalid SQL: DELETE FROM template WHERE templatesetid=-1 AND title<>'options'
mysql error: Incorrect key file for table: 'template'. Try to repair it

mysql error number: 1034

Date: Monday 19th of November 2001 08:55:54 AM
Script: /forumtest/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3
Referer: http://www.XXXXXXX.yy/forumtest/admin/upgrade14.php?step=2

Hopefully waiting...

May

You seem to have damaged tables.. connect with mysql and run repair table template;
alternately, upload the repair.php script found in the extras/ dir and run it, it will try to take care of all your table errors

[freehtml]

I had this...after I apply the upgrade again
http://www.sanguo-online.com/gif/admin_stuff.gif

What does the 0.13,0.12,0.12 stands for anyway??

[may]

Okidoki,

thanks a lot, I've made a new thread about it here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=207726#post207726)

bg,
May

[over]

Originally posted by freehtml
I had this...after I apply the upgrade again
http://www.sanguo-online.com/gif/admin_stuff.gif

What does the 0.13,0.12,0.12 stands for anyway??

server load, i've recently released a hack which expands on that :) giving uptime, and info about swap file basicallly, "top" info :)

[freehtml]

Originally posted by over


server load, i've recently released a hack which expands on that :) giving uptime, and info about swap file basicallly, "top" info :)

How can I interpert the info..I don't what it means ..:confused:

[tubedogg]

It's the average load on your server during the past 5, 10, and 15 minutes (in your case, .13, .12, .12). Basically anything under 3 or 4 is doing really good. :) The higher you get, the more load the server is under.

[Marc Smith]

Unless I've missed something somewhere, this only works on some servers. I'm on a 'virtual server' with Apache ver 1.3.14 running on FreeBSD, PHP ver 4.0.4pl1, and MySQL ver 3.23.22. I don't see either server load or the number of users online in my admin control panel. I have to telnet to my server and use the 'top' command for server load info.

[Steve_C]

Still awaiting my e-mail from vBulletin when this update is done with the "beta" testing.

[JTMON]

HEHE, you and me both. I'm still waiting for my email when 2.2.0 was released and a reply to an official support ticket I put in over a week ago. The problem was fixed in the bug forum but I never recieved a single response to my "official" support ticket.

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by Marc Smith
Unless I've missed something somewhere, this only works on some servers. I'm on a 'virtual server' with Apache ver 1.3.14 running on FreeBSD, PHP ver 4.0.4pl1, and MySQL ver 3.23.22. I don't see either server load or the number of users online in my admin control panel. I have to telnet to my server and use the 'top' command for server load info. If the 'uptime' command is disabled by your server admin (or is not available on the server...not sure if FreeBSD has it or not) then it will not be shown.

[tubedogg]

The email has not been sent yet AFAIK.

JTMON: Do you have the auto-response to your ticket? Look for a line like this:
[SID-5610-343kfdf34]
If you have that give it to me and I will look for your ticket.

[JTMON]

I don't have access to that email address right now. I'll let you know in about 2 hours, as far as I know, I didn't get an autoresponse either.

[tubedogg]

If you didn't get an autoresponse we never got the ticket.

[JTMON]

Originally posted by tubedogg
If you didn't get an autoresponse we never got the ticket.

Well that's dandy

[Marc Smith]

Originally posted by tubedogg
If the 'uptime' command is disabled by your server admin (or is not available on the server...not sure if FreeBSD has it or not) then it will not be shown. I won't belabour this, but there was a discussion (in part) of this in http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27781

I can telnet and use 'uptime' and 'top' and about any other command line 'tool' but neither server load nor number of users online work in my adminCP.

This is NOT a complaint from me - I can live without the info in the admin CP. But it does show that the uptime command can be enabled on the server (and work just dandy) as well as the top command, yet not work through the vBulletin software. If anyone has any ideas I sure would like to hear them.
**********************
From the command line on my 'virtual server':

SHIRLEY:/usr/home/shirley% uptime
6:15PM up 23:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.16, 0.16, 0.08
SHIRLEY:/usr/home/shirley%

From 'top':
last pid: 7399; load averages: 0.38, 0.18, 0.08 up 0+23:09:12 18:14:40
20 processes: 1 running, 19 sleeping
CPU states: 15.2% user, 0.0% nice, 3.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 80.9% idle
Mem: 362M Active, 27M Inact, 71M Wired, 15M Cache, 61M Buf, 27M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 55M Used, 969M Free, 5% Inuse

PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
94132 shirley 2 0 7796K 5932K sbwait 0:00 0.73% 0.73% httpd
47950 shirley 28 0 1420K 968K RUN 0:04 0.63% 0.63% top
36826 shirley 2 0 7996K 6188K accept 0:06 0.34% 0.34% httpd
1345 shirley 2 0 14876K 5904K poll 4:31 0.29% 0.29% mysqld
etc.....

[thewitt]

Originally posted by Marc Smith
[clip]I can telnet and use 'uptime' and 'top' and about any other command line 'tool' but neither server load nor number of users online work in my adminCP.

This is NOT a complaint from me - I can live without the info in the admin CP. But it does show that the uptime command can be enabled on the server (and work just dandy) as well as the top command, yet not work through the vBulletin software. If anyone has any ideas I sure would like to hear them.
[clip]
Just a guess, but can you run "uptime" and "top" from within a PHP script in your configuration?

-t

[Marc Smith]

I think that's what I was trying in the other post I cited above. I just know I tried a few different things and never got it to work. I'm too new and stupid to most of this to know why it doesn't work. As the old saying goes, I know just enough to be dangerous.

If I have a question - it's more along the lines of why do both the server load averages stats part AND the part where it is supposed to list users online not work.

[rylin]

erm.. it's tuesday now.. *still waiting*

[floleb7]

if i upload online.php all bugs with this page will be resolve ?

or there is also another files to upload ?

[Steve_C]

This is getting ridicules. You shouldn't say 24-48 hours and it not be. Hopefully next time vb doesn't release the "new" version without testing it more. It's a huge inconvenience to keep updating.

[TheUnforgiven]

crud i just ran upgrade14 .. i havn't seen any errors... yet... will i?

[Marc Smith]

My upgrade went smooth as silk, as the saying goes.

[rylin]

so.. erhm.. it's soon wednesday here in europe, and still no news about 2.2.1? am i missing something here?

[JTMON]

me either

[Marc Smith]

It's there. Just download and do your thing. I did the upgrade last weekend and everything is running fine 3 days later.

[JTMON]

No I'd like the email like I'm supposed to get.

[Steve_C]

Me too...

[Joshua Clinard]

Yea, me too. I am waiting for the code to be "officially" released.

[Paul J]

Jelsoft is more concerned with pirates than they are their paying customers.

[JTMON]

apparently:D

[hypedave]

yeah im still waiting on the email, I want to upgrade my leased license to a full one, but the way things are going I think I may wait.

[freehtml]

Originally posted by qwaz
Jelsoft is more concerned with pirates than they are their paying customers.

I totally agree :(

[hypedave]

OKAY I WANT TO KNOW , IS THE OFFICIAL VBB 2.2.1 OUT, i DOWNLOADED THE 2.2.1 TODAY AND IT STILL DIDNT FIX MY DUPLICATE TEMPLATES!!!!!!!!!! , LOL

[Rick Horwitz]

No e-mail here either...

[Fusion]

Patience, little ones.
The 2.2.1 fixes are so indifferential that you won't be marked for life if you have to wait a tad longer than first indicated. The one half-cruicial fix that comes to mind, the email-notification, can be amended for 2.2.0 in 2 seconds flat. So everyone grab their pacifiers and kindly pipe down already.

[rylin]

The thing that's pissing me off here is the fact that jelsoft haven't said anything.. if they'd go out with a "bla bla bla problems bla bla bla release on friday instead", that'd be acceptable.. but first waiting for a weekend release, and then getting it pushed to monday and now indefinitely without any notification is rather painful.. i have a deadline coming up in 1½ week, and have lots of hacks i need to rewrite..

please jelsoft, can we at least get a new eta?

[JTMON]

Well now I have to assume that the missing 2.2.0 email and 2.2.1 email is known by jelsoft as I just had a thread I started in the Troubleshooting section closed by Firefly. Twice in that thread I said that the thread was regarding a missing email that I thought was sent out (2.2.0) but he closed it and said we should keep the discussion here which leads me to believe it's NOT actually a problem else he would have left it open or said they know about the issue. Maybe I'm just cursed by the email fairy:D

[madhouse]

Are we going to see this update or recieve this email here soon?
I too have alot of members and wish to be able to upgrade as soon as possible so i can reinstall the hacks nessary.

[Wayne Luke]

While I can understand the need for some of you to get email notification, the current code is stable and installable. I give you my word on this. It will work in in full capacity on 99.9% of all installations.

I can't guarantee that the software is bug-free as such a thing doesn't exist. However we will work with you all to solve any problems. If you are experiencing problems with the 2.2.0 release then by all means install this software. If not then I wouldn't put this high on your priority list.

For those of you who absolutely need an email before you will upgrade, I am working to find out where the slip-up was so that it gets sent as soon as possible. I am sorry about the mixup but the entire team here at Jelsoft is working on the problem as fast as we can.

[madhouse]

Thats fine and i would but when i go to d/l it will not let the d/l go thru at all...I get like 58ks and thats it..nothing else

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by madhouse
Thats fine and i would but when i go to d/l it will not let the d/l go thru at all...I get like 58ks and thats it..nothing else

Hmm.. I haven't had any problems downloading from the member's area. Are you using a download manager? Since this is a dynamic file you should disable your download manager for this download.

[floleb7]

Originally posted by floleb7
if i upload online.php all bugs with this page will be resolve ?

or there is also another files to upload ?

yes / no ?
or try we will know ? :D

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by floleb7


yes / no ?
or try we will know ? :D

Well this isn't really the appropriate area to discuss problems. That should be done in the troubleshooting and/or bug forums.

However when there is a new release, you should upload all new files unless otherwise specified.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by JTMON
Well now I have to assume that the missing 2.2.0 email and 2.2.1 email is known by jelsoft as I just had a thread I started in the Troubleshooting section closed by Firefly. Twice in that thread I said that the thread was regarding a missing email that I thought was sent out (2.2.0) but he closed it and said we should keep the discussion here which leads me to believe it's NOT actually a problem else he would have left it open or said they know about the issue. Maybe I'm just cursed by the email fairy:D I'm by no means accused of being psychic, but I do have a fairly good idea why the 2.2.1 is still underway. While in the beta-phase several bugs in 2.2.0 were confirmed and fixed, so it's only fair that the beta-period was extended. As for the missing mail telling you that it was extended..Are you really such a square pinhead, and I do mean that in the nicest way possible, that you don't see a ballpark figure when it lands in your lap? I'd rather have Jelsoft spend the time&resources I've paid for by registering on plugging the last pot-holes than keeping me continously updated thru mail or here. After all, 2.2.1 is not a vital upgrade, so for those of you that are eagerly awaiting the release in the face of deadlines, hairy hacks or whatnot, DON'T upgrade: Keep 2.2.0, and implement whatever relevant fixes you need instead. That way you'll achieve the exact same result, short of a lower version-#.

[rylin]

Originally posted by Fusion
I'm by no means accused of being psychic, but I do have a fairly good idea why the 2.2.1 is still underway. While in the beta-phase several bugs in 2.2.0 were confirmed and fixed, so it's only fair that the beta-period was extended. As for the missing mail telling you that it was extended..Are you really such a square pinhead, and I do mean that in the nicest way possible, that you don't see a ballpark figure when it lands in your lap? I'd rather have Jelsoft spend the time&resources I've paid for by registering on plugging the last pot-holes than keeping me continously updated thru mail or here. After all, 2.2.1 is not a vital upgrade, so for those of you that are eagerly awaiting the release in the face of deadlines, hairy hacks or whatnot, DON'T upgrade: Keep 2.2.0, and implement whatever relevant fixes you need instead. That way you'll achieve the exact same result, short of a lower version-#.

And in the nicest way possible; do you really have problems understanding that when a company puts up an ETA, the users tend to take the eta seriously; and when it's overdue by several days without notice, it's pretty normal to wonder why it wasn't followed.

Now, especially as 2.2.1 was released as a beta, there could've been quite a few unnoticed problems that crept in, security issues and what not, and so most people tend to wait for a final release instead of running possibly compromised software.

Then again, i don't know.. maybe it's just us "square pinheads" that would much rather run proper releases than betas..

[george_proost]

Have a look at all the changes and decide for youself if it was/is a vital upgrade. I've converted now and been running for a couple of days now. Touch wood no more problems.

2.2.0 is a mess, believe me. Especially the admin/styles problem.

New users not being able to post ... the list goes on.

Go to the new release and pray that the jelsoft boys do not go off
and develop 3.0
before taking out ALL the bugs of the current release 2.2.1.

( there will be many ... believe it )

[Fusion]

Originally posted by okidoki
Then again, i don't know.. maybe it's just us "square pinheads" that would much rather run proper releases than betas.. I can guarrantee that there is no difference whatsoever in running the beta 2.2.1 as it will be when running the "proper" release. It will be just as prone to security flaws as well as other bugs as the beta is. Besides, "no one" will know. Nowhere does it say beta, so maybe it really is the final? Or will they revert 10 builds back and release that? Who knows? But don't just take my word for it, listen to wluke. He's a somebody, I'm not.

[netshrine]

Just found out about 2.2.1 via an announcement on my admin panel.

Pulse check - without reading everything in this thread - - is OK to download and run the upgrade NOW - - or, is there something going on that I should read about?

[JTMON]

Originally posted by Fusion
I can guarrantee that there is no difference whatsoever in running the beta 2.2.1 as it will be when running the "proper" release. It will be just as prone to security flaws as well as other bugs as the beta is. Besides, "no one" will know. Nowhere does it say beta, so maybe it really is the final? Or will they revert 10 builds back and release that? Who knows? But don't just take my word for it, listen to wluke. He's a somebody, I'm not.
,
Yes but you still miss the point entirely. It's about them not doing what they say. As for plugging holes vs keeping us notified. How long does it take to create an email and mass send it to your customer list? oooh about 5-10 minutes. And do you really think one of the dev guys HAS to do this personally. Does it take a person of their knowledge/intelligence to do that. I don't think so, or else you could never figure it out....and I mean that in the nicest way possible:p

[tubedogg]

It takes far more than 5 to 10 minutes when you are sending it to thousands of people from a server that is being heavily used for at least 3 different high-traffic sites.

As Wayne said there was a problem with the email and we are working to rectify it. Please be patient.

[JTMON]

Tubedogg, I meant the time it takes to assemble the email and push the send button. And I was going to say if there are no problems with the server.

[Hooper]

I lost a couple posts somewhere between the 2.03 and 2.2.1 upgrading. Vanished threads.

[jackie]

This is getting tiresome and frustrating. Is the 24/48 hour beta completed yet? The admin panel says 2.2.1 is ready and the 2.2.1 anouncement recommends everyone to ugrade. I didn't get any email notification yet and this thread is getting too winded. A simple yes or no would be appreciated.

[Sven]

Originally posted by jackie
A simple yes or no would be appreciated.
Jepp! It's called QA which means: Keep your customers happy and satisfied

[Wayne Luke]

Yes

[may]

OK guys,

I've wiped out my forums with:
Script: /forumtest/admin/upgrade14.php?step=3

... and now?

Why does not anyone can explain before upgrading from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, that the system requirements are SQL-Version "MySQL 3.23.xx" ?

Under features you tell me:
Minimum Requirements: vBulletin is designed to run on every server that has PHP 3.0.9 or greater and MySQL 3.22 or greater installed.

Recommended Requirements: For optimum performance, we recommend that vBulletin is run on a server that has MySQL 3.23.33 and PHP 4 installed.

I can't believe it and I hate this situation!

- May

[rylin]

may: can't you just get your host to upgrade? :)

[JTMON]

For everyone that was waiting for the word from John, this was posted this morning in the released thread.

Version 2.2.1 is now the stable version of vBulletin. Apologies for the delays, we have been checking up on a few elusive bugs that did not amount to anything in the end.

Hope that helps:D

[Steve Machol]

I also just received the email.

[ethank]

Anyone diff the release today with the release last week?

Ethan

[Fusion]

Probably some stuff, yea. I assume they included what was marked fixed from the beta was first let loose 'til today.

[Flack Jacket]

I see some pretty bitchy people here complaining about taking the ETA seriously and I just have to comment.

ETA = ESTIMATED Time of Arrival

Now I don't consider myself that smart but I ran my own shop and I made estimates on repairs all the time and never was that estimate a "written in stone" figure wether it was on completion time not amount of repairs an even before I ran said shop did I think that anyone giving an ETA was giving me a definate answer.

Problems arrise. Thisng don't go as smoothly as anticipated. Somebody got sick and that slowed down the process. Whatever.

There is no need to be so anctious (spelling) to upgrade to another version that you will jump on the first thing right out of the box. Personally...when I learned of the new version 2.2.0 I did nothing and I have just received my e-mail about the update. I am not supprised and I am in no hurry.

It was almost 2 weeks after me completing my first install and extensive hacking that there was a new version ov vbulletin and as I sighed and looked into it I decided to do it all over again and use the new one.....2.0.3. I am in no great hurry to jump all over another one since my current one is hacked up all over again and I will patiently wait to see if there are any more updates before making my decision to upgrade, start all over or punt and stay with what I got.

Am I rambling? I guess so.

Anyway....please folks......excersize some patience and common sense and relax.

If you know better then write the code yourself and blow off this place and you will be able to complain to yourself all you want about when you will be done with it.

Peace....happy thanksgiving

[JTMON]

I see some pretty bitchy people here complaining about taking the ETA seriously and I just have to comment.

ETA = ESTIMATED Time of Arrival

Now I don't consider myself that smart but I ran my own shop and I made estimates on repairs all the time and never was that estimate a "written in stone" figure wether it was on completion time not amount of repairs an even before I ran said shop did I think that anyone giving an ETA was giving me a definate answer.

Problems arrise. Thisng don't go as smoothly as anticipated. Somebody got sick and that slowed down the process. Whatever.

There is no need to be so anctious (spelling) to upgrade to another version that you will jump on the first thing right out of the box. Personally...when I learned of the new version 2.2.0 I did nothing and I have just received my e-mail about the update. I am not supprised and I am in no hurry.

Ok, you either are being intentionally obtuse or are just missing the point. If you give your customers an ETA, and don't meet the ETA, don't you at least let them know about it? That's one of the major points here that you seem to be missing.

Also, for some people who do not like to edit their own code for WHATEVER reasons, they do have a good reason to be anxious about upgrading as they may have the problems of new users not being able to post or email notification not working. Some of these bugs were enough to put a serious dampening on the activity of your forums if you happened to have those.

[Paul J]

Originally posted by drives_fast
I see some pretty bitchy people here complaining about taking the ETA seriously and I just have to comment.

Problems arrise. Thisng don't go as smoothly as anticipated. Somebody got sick and that slowed down the process. Whatever.


Who's ass are you trying to kiss?

In your "shop" would you give your ETA and then just fly right passed it? Would you then continue to not answer your phone or answer your door when your customers came knocking?

[Flack Jacket]

You have just made my point for me.

I am not being obtuse: lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : INSENSITIVE, STUPID b : difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression

If everyone wasn't in such a hurry to upgrade to a newer version then the present problems would not exist. Had everyone experiencing problems waited instead of jumping on a beta version then they would not be in the mess they find themselves in.

All I am saying is to be patient....I have missed no points...I read every post in this thread and heard a lot of whining. If you don't like the present rate of update or process of elimination to fix bugs in an extremely complicated language (code) then the best practice is abstenence. Patience. Complaining is not a constructive method of bug reporting and allowing the creators the optertunity to allieviate the problem.

If anyone expects the authors of this forum software to be perfect and not make mistakes then they are in for a big supprise. Heck.....car makers have been doing their thing just a bit longer and there are still re-calls and lemmons. I personally don't go buy the newest thing on the market until I see it improved for a couple of years so I am not one of the ones complaining that this and that are wrong and sounding rediculas.

anyway....nevermind....I hear and read what is said and made my comment and suggestion. Take it or leave it. I do not want to argue.

BTW...I kiss nobody's ass...these people owe me nothing and I expect nothing from them. It is aparent that the recent replies are by the ones who blindly waded into the water without checking first

[Paul J]

This coming from someone who needed to go to dictionary.com to look up the meaning of the word obtuse.

You have proven your own point my friend...with no one else's help but your own.

[Flack Jacket]

I see I am in the company of children so I will part on this note.

You got what you deserved and you only receive the same.

good bye.

[Paul J]

.

[JTMON]

I am not being obtuse: lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : INSENSITIVE, STUPID b : difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression

If everyone wasn't in such a hurry to upgrade to a newer version then the present problems would not exist. Had everyone experiencing problems waited instead of jumping on a beta version then they would not be in the mess they find themselves in.

Well now you just don't seem to know what's going on....

Nobody is saying they are perfect. These problems that you think are from people "blindly wading into the water" are not from that at all. They are from the 2.2.0 release. So people upgrading right when it was released have nothing to do with this.

And yes they do owe the PAYING cusotmers something, if that something is only a quick, "Hey, we are still working on it, or the something that John posted today" So it seems that you are being very obtuse, by your definition even.

And of course you totally missed or just chose not to reply to the point that THEY STILL SHOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING which they finally have. End of story..

[Flack Jacket]

By my generalizations I am including the 2.2.0 release in my comments. This was one of the wading references I was making.

I did not mention the fact that everyone feels that they are not getting the hand holding that they feel they deserve because I agree in that there should be some kind of mention periodically but personally I would rather them work on the problems than have to keep coming in here and answering the same question over and over again.

qwaz,
for someone that can't even try to spread out the letters of their membername further away than the absolute left of his keyboard I would expect nothing more from you than the pic. You might as well have used qwerty. Really original.

Thanks...Paunch was cool in his day.

Hmmm....I guess I just couldn't resist replying once more.

Last one....laters

[Hooper]

I upgraded to 2.2.1 the day it came out. Have the files been updated since that time with bug fixes?

I'm not sure if John was saying that the files have been updated since the release date or if the files are the same as the day of release?

[Paul J]

Originally posted by drives_fast
By my generalizations I am including the 2.2.0 release in my comments. This was one of the wading references I was making.

I did not mention the fact that everyone feels that they are not getting the hand holding that they feel they deserve because I agree in that there should be some kind of mention periodically but personally I would rather them work on the problems than have to keep coming in here and answering the same question over and over again.


Starting to speak for "everyone" again now?

That's a good one...making fun of someone's handle on the internet.

You must have been one of the millions of AOL lemmings that have flooded the internet ever since Al Gore invented it.

[JTMON]

quaz you left side of the keyboard user!;):D:p

I wonder if PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is at dictionary.com:p

[Paul J]

I'm sure "drives_fast" will be here shortly to tell us all if it is or not.:D

[Steve Machol]

Alright - that's enough bickering! Please discontiue this flame war or I will close this thread.

Qwaz, I would appreciate it if you would edit your post and remove that pic. This isn't the place for such things. Thank you for respecting this.

[madhouse]

Originally posted by wluke


Hmm.. I haven't had any problems downloading from the member's area. Are you using a download manager? Since this is a dynamic file you should disable your download manager for this download.


nope not using any type of file d/l....just striaght IE nuthin special..I also tried it again today and still the same thing stops d/ling at about 36kbs to 84kbs and thats it...Nothing else..Any ideas?I have already checked all my settings for IE and I have no firewall in the way either..Even went the step to turn off the anti-virus.

So it would be helpfull on anything else i can do(I do know how to configure my net considering i work for Charter Communications setting up and diagnosising{spelling sux though...lol} net problems and so such...

[Steve Machol]

Try downloading with Netscape or another browser instead. Other than that, I don't know what to suggest.

[tamarian]

Just merged changes from last week's 2.2.1 to todays 2.2.1

The vbulletin.style changed a lot. Does this require any setup/upgrading?

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Hooper
I upgraded to 2.2.1 the day it came out. Have the files been updated since that time with bug fixes?

I'm not sure if John was saying that the files have been updated since the release date or if the files are the same as the day of release? Hooper, yes, some fixes were included.

[Hooper]

Originally posted by Fusion
Hooper, yes, some fixes were included.

If this is the case and the 2.2.1 files have been updated, can we just copy the updated files over? If so, what are the updated files?

Thanks.

[Nam]

I know that I have to rehack all the file, but do I have to revert all the template back to original like what I did to upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.2.0? Or I can just leave all the template in 2.2.0 alone?

That could save me some time, knowing that I only need to rehack main files.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Hooper


If this is the case and the 2.2.1 files have been updated, can we just copy the updated files over? If so, what are the updated files?

Thanks. As long as you ran the upgrade-script last week, and there were no database-related fixes since that release, it should suffice to just re-upload the new .php-files. register.php is one of the changed ones, but there may be more, so I'd do them all, except the obvious ones (install.php, upgrade*.php).

[tubedogg]

Templates only need to be changed if you have custom versions of templates listed as 'changed' in the announcement.

No database changes were made after 2.2.1 was released as a beta. All the changes were in the php files.

[Hooper]

Ok. Thank You.

[postalbobo]

Has anyone else noticed that everyone seems to be screaming for blood here?

You all bitch when the new version isn't released. You bitch when it is released. You bitch that it was released too soon, because of your bitching that it wasn't released soon enough, and then you bitch when they release a bug fix.

Jesus people, calm down. Let the developers develop. Upgrade when you feel the need to. These poor guys work their asses off to bring out this software, and they do a damn good job of it. vBulletin changed my site for the better, and I'm glad to have it. It takes time to re-hack, but I'm willing to do it, because I added the hacks in the first place.

Calm down, work it out for yourself, and quit reaming the team here, they're doing the best job they can, and it's a very good job indeed.

[Hooper]

postalbobo,

Welcome to vBulletin.

[Fusion]

I second that, postalbobo.

[SillyAlien]

Originally posted by postalbobo
Has anyone else noticed that everyone seems to be screaming for blood here?

You all bitch when the new version isn't released. You bitch when it is released. You bitch that it was released too soon, because of your bitching that it wasn't released soon enough, and then you bitch when they release a bug fix.

I love this, it's sort of a "Catch 22". :)

A new release comes out and the scrambling and "screaming" begins. A day or so later the bugs start appearing. A day after that the bugs start getting squashed. More downloads, more bugs. Another release comes out, the "screaming" continues, more bugs appear, more are squashed, until finally we have ourselves one final (relatively) bug-free version.

You see, Postalbobo, everyone has a place in this world. There are download-screamers, bug-screamers, fix-screamers, screamer-screamers. Without these "bloodthirsty screamers" it would take the vB-team ten times as long to find all of the bugs and arrive at a clean version. Everyone has been assigned a place in society for a reason.

Now, I would like to thank everyone for "helping" along in the evolution of this wonder-product/software. Tomorrow I will be happily ugrading my vB 2.0.3 to a (relatively) bug-free 2.2.1. Great job everyone! :D

Cheers.

P.S. Postalbobo, interesting choice for a name. :D

[Jake Bunce]

*me walks in late*

ok i upgraded to 2.2.1

all seems well

[Thomas P]

...and I second SillyAlien's post ;) :)
-Tom

[TheUnforgiven]

Originally posted by SillyAlien

I love this, it's sort of a "Catch 22". :)

A new release comes out and the scrambling and "screaming" begins. A day or so later the bugs start appearing. A day after that the bugs start getting squashed. More downloads, more bugs. Another release comes out, the "screaming" continues, more bugs appear, more are squashed, until finally we have ourselves one final (relatively) bug-free version.

You see, Postalbobo, everyone has a place in this world. There are download-screamers, bug-screamers, fix-screamers, screamer-screamers. Without these "bloodthirsty screamers" it would take the vB-team ten times as long to find all of the bugs and arrive at a clean version. Everyone has been assigned a place in society for a reason.

Now, I would like to thank everyone for "helping" along in the evolution of this wonder-product/software. Tomorrow I will be happily ugrading my vB 2.0.3 to a (relatively) bug-free 2.2.1. Great job everyone! :D

Cheers.

P.S. Postalbobo, interesting choice for a name. :D

i 3 that :) :-D

[may]

Upgrading from 2.0.3 to 2.2.1

One string in upgrade13.php (step3) tells...

...<a href=\"upgrade1.php?step=$step&startat=".($startat+$perpage)."#end\">...

...upgrade1.php... is that correct?

- May

[may]

Hey,
what's going on, my last post shouldn't be a thread-killer :rolleyes:

Upgrading 2.0.3 --> 2.2.1 done without problems.

May

[Joe Gronlund]

any word on a ver 2.2.2 release date?? :cool:

[Fusion]

You really think a 2.2.2 is called for?

[Kaizen]

Originally posted by Asendin
any word on a ver 2.2.2 release date?? :cool:

*cream pie*

aand if anyone uses the phrase:

"gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme"

I will give them a cream pie that has gone past its sell-by date !

[Fusion]

Kaizen, atleast use a cream-pie anim.. A bit more fun for the rest of us. :D

[Eric ELM]

I am a newbie to all of this. Oh No :eek:

I uploaded the vBulletin Version 2.2.1 Friday Nov. 30, but I'm having problems with the email verification. It will trip it to registered, but a few couldn't log in until I changed it to like moderator and submit and back to registered and submit. I call this manually tripping it, I'm sure there is a correct name for this. ;)

I had about 5 members out of 191 have this problem. Is there a fix for this other than shutting off email verification?

[Joe Gronlund]

Originally posted by Kaizen


*cream pie*

aand if anyone uses the phrase:

"gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme"

I will give them a cream pie that has gone past its sell-by date !

so i guess thats a no then? :D

[Fusion]

I dunno bout you Canucks, but unless yes is no, then yes. ;)

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Eric ELM
I am a newbie to all of this. Oh No :eek:

I uploaded the vBulletin Version 2.2.1 Friday Nov. 30, but I'm having problems with the email verification. It will trip it to registered, but a few couldn't log in until I changed it to like moderator and submit and back to registered and submit. I call this manually tripping it, I'm sure there is a correct name for this. ;)

I had about 5 members out of 191 have this problem. Is there a fix for this other than shutting off email verification? Eric, if you look in the Bugs forum or do a search, you might find some tweaks that help ease the problem. Also, as there's only a handfull that have these problems, might you hazard a guess as to what makes those users special? What, if any, are their similarities?

[Eric ELM]

The only common thing is when they you a two word user name it seems to happen. First and last name users. If they use a single word as a user name, it seems to be fine.

I looked at the bugs forum on the new version, but did not see anything on this.

Thanks for your imput.

Eric

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Eric ELM
The only common thing is when they you a two word user name it seems to happen. First and last name users. If they use a single word as a user name, it seems to be fine.

I looked at the bugs forum on the new version, but did not see anything on this.

Thanks for your imput.

Eric That might related to the "long-email" problem some seem to be having. If people use addresses with multiple dots left and right of the @, they seem to crash&burn. I've never been able to reproduce it, though. See this thread (http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=34338) for further info.

[Eric ELM]

I read that thread and also checked more into the ones having this problem. It's not a long email name issue.

The user names are also not issue. Some are 2 word user names and some are single word user names.

The program trips them to user when they go to the link required to activate them. About 7 of them out of 200 just can not post until I manually change the user from registered to another, such as moderator or unregistered and then back to registered. Then they can post.

All I am trying to do is let Jelsoft know of this problem and see if there is a fix. I guess it will be a hard one to figure out since it only happens 3% of the time.

The only reason I'm using this is, I helped run a board for over a year and most trouble makers have bogus email addresses. I'm trying to avoid this type of users.

[Revmaster]

Hi. Im new here and its nice to be a part of this community. More power to VBulletin! :)

[CodeDreamer]

how do I upgrade from
Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.3
to this current version?

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by CodeDreamer
how do I upgrade from
Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.3
to this current version? The instructions are in the Announcement:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37954

[CodeDreamer]

actually... what does

Warning: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /home/codedre/public_html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 34

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /home/codedre/public_html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 34

mean

[Steve Machol]

When did this start happening? Did you make any changes to your config.php file?