Support Reference -- Import Script

The root problem with some import problems happens when their is not an
"Admin" user in the "admin" group in the PN db.  The problem causes
permissions problems.  I believe that we can work around this for the time
being in most cases with this work around.


<nobody> lets try a theory of what the root cause is:)
<datavortex> ok, ready when you are
<nobody> add a user called "Admin"
<nobody> and put that user in the "admin" group in pn.
<nobody> then grab a dump of that new code, and install it in your xaraya
db.
<nobody> if you have "Admin" as the admin user on your Xaraya install, then
you don't need to redo the db, if
  you don't then do that.
<nobody> I think we can work around this problem if this is the problem.
* Rabbitt sets mode: -o Rabbitt
<nobody> what we can do is add a user called whatever your admin user name
is, and insert it into the pn data
  first.
<nobody> but we need to see if that is indeed the problem.
<datavortex> ok, so I will redo the DB real quick
<datavortex> Ok, install done, admin is now "Admin" - initing mods
<datavortex> ok, mods are on, now I'm going back to the import8 script
<datavortex> step 2 (old news topics --> categories) still giving me issues:
<datavortex> Creating topic (1) Geekdom and Computing - geek [geek.gif]
<datavortex> Couldn't create hit counter 74 for topic Geekdom and Computing
<datavortex> step 3 looks good: Inserted article 200
<datavortex> I don't have any queued articles, step 4 basically skipped
<datavortex> step 5 went with no errors
<datavortex> step 6 is good Inserted section content (3) Geekdom
<datavortex> step 7, no errors
<datavortex> step 8 worked: Inserted FAQ (6) Location
<datavortex> step 9 went with no errors: Inserted comment (269 0) - Re:
Quickie
<datavortex> step 10 is complaining:
<datavortex> 10. Importing old web link categories
<datavortex> Oops, missing parent 0 for category (1) Geek Stuff
<datavortex> Oops, missing parent 0 for category (3) Friend's Pages
<datavortex> looks like that goes back to the problems with step 2 regarding
categories though
<nobody> thats because it failed on the initial one
<nobody> yup.
<datavortex> 11 looks good: Inserted web link (1) Procmail Quick Start
<datavortex> 12 is done and so is import8.php
<datavortex> So it looks like just trying to convert my topics into
categories is giving it issues
<datavortex> thanks to your fix, nobody.
<nobody> bah, we need to fix that in the script.
<nobody> not sure why "Admin" is so important.
<nobody> I am going to copy this to the knowledge base though.
<datavortex> cool, hope I was mildly helpful. :)
End of #support buffer    Wed Apr 23 20:46:23 2003