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#40018 #40005 Problem remains after installing ‎7.4.6

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.4.1
PHP version
8.1
Admin Tools version
7.4.6

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 20 December 2023 06:59 CST

mibert

Hi Akeeba Team,

the database problem reported at #40005 still remains for me, even after installation of version ‎7.4.6

I hope that there is a solution soon.

Best regards

Michael

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

It does not, but you wouldn't know it because Joomla shows you its cached, erroneous database fix information unless you tell it to look again in the most counter-intuitive manner.

After installing 7.4.6 go to System, Maintenance, Database. Select Admin Tools and click on Update Structure.

This does absolutely nothing to your database because now Joomla checks again in Admin Tools' tables are up to date, sees that everything is actually up-to-date, and returns to the page you were before. Lo and behold! Now it reports "No problem".

Yes, this is frustrating. No, I don't like the way it is implemented in Joomla either. No, there is really not a good way I can possibly automate this in our psot-installation script without risking causing problems to your site. Joomla really needs to fix this feature. Unfortunately, they won't let me even file a bug report, let alone fix those things for them anymore. All I can do now is tell you how things are broken and hope that someone else reports and fixes the breakage.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

mibert

Hi Nicholas,

 

sorry but that does not work for me.

Please see attached screenshot after clearing Cache and repair database.

Best regards

Michael

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

This is a Joomla! bug that needs to be addressed in Joomla!. I have done everything that can be done on our side. Since they have blocked me from submitting bug reports and fixes to their CMS, it's up to them to fix the bugs in their CMS. There is nothing else I can do about this.

Please remember, this is a cosmetic issue. There is no functional problem. Therefore, it can be ignored.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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