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"bonk" message while trying to activate any new theme

edited September 2010 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hi everyone.
I try to use the MEGA theme, but I always get the "Bonk" error message.
It does not only happend with MEGA theme, but also with any theme I tried (MEGA theme, rounder, old vanillaforum.org and minalla yellow).

While I navigate through dashboard, I dont get any error message and it looks like it goes well (exept that I have to do a manual page refresh to see "apply or discard" button if I preview the them).
So I apply the theme, and when I come back to the main page where are my discussions are listed, here is a "Bonk" message.

I already tried the fix that say to put an empty en-CA.php in conf directory with chmod 777, but nothing change, "Bonk" still here.

Any help will be very appreciate.

Using the latest vanillaforum 2.0.6 and a very fresh just downloaded of any of the theme I used (tried to use). I also made a full fresh re-install of vanillaforum, fresh database.
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  • I am far from an expert on all this but I had the same problem and I found that I had deleted a folder in the cache file called "smarty" when I was doing the upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.0.6. When I put that folder from a backup back into the cache folder of 2.0.6 everything started to work again, including the MEGA theme and all the other themes where I also got the "bonk". Do a search on this forum, there is a way to edit the forum software so that is shows the error message instead of showing the bonk. Having the error message was the way I finally figured out what was going on. I too had changed the permissions to 777 and the empty en-CA edit and it didn't make a difference. The "smarty" folder fixed it.
  • I checked if the smarty folder is in the cache directory. And it is already there.
    I saw this code to put in the config.php file, but it's look like vanilla rewritte it without letting me a chance to see the error message. It just say "Bonk".
  • Regarding getting error report to work, you have to comment out the old bonk line. I had same problem. See here:

    http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/12857/my-theme-problem-with-2.0.6
  • Ok, it's work now.
    Dan you definitly save my day.
    The error was a missed "Smarty\compile" directory. I dont know if there is a need or not, but just in case, I chmod 777 both.
    Now it goes round just fine. Again, THANK YOU :)
  • Just wanted to report that I had this exact problem. The only theme that worked on my system was the default theme.

    However, when I switched the cache\Smarty permissions to '777' (they were 775) and the cache\Smarty\compile directory to '777' the other themes started working.

    Thanks for the tips guys.
  • I just had the same issue. Turns out Smarty was trying to write to /cache/xjsfl.com but the folder that was there was /cache/www.xjsfl.com.

    The thing is - I hadn't changed anything and this was working before. The only think I can think is that my server company upgraded PHP and something changed.

    Any ideas?

  • smarty write .ini files to the cache. e.g.

    a_dashboard_library_map.ini

    /cache/ is the folder - you say it is trying to write a file called
    xjsfl.com.

    seems odd.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • There's really two things you need to know about this conversation. First, you need to get into your vanilla/cache folder. Second, you'll have to add a Smarty folder and a compile folder within Smarty. Permissions must be set as 777.

    Props to Left Brain for his specific instructions.

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