Mint Forum

Hey all, I just upgraded to Mint 2 yesterday. I’m liking it so far, but I’ve been having some weird issues with panes from various peppers vanishing permanently.

First, I moved the XXX Strong Mint pane into the “disabled” area, and it vanished from the viewing area as expected. However, when I went back into preferences, the pane was nowhere to be found! (I expected to find it listed under “disabled”.)

I installed the “Trends” pepper, and although I expected two panes to show up (internal and external), only one did until after I uninstalled/reinstalled the pepper.

Also, when I uninstalled/reinstalled XXX Strong Mint, two identical copies of its pane showed up!

Now, although I haven’t messed with it at all, the User Agent 007 pane has completely vanished. I already uninstalled/reinstalled it, knowing I’d lose all my user agent statistics.

At the moment, all the panes I expect to be there are there, but only after a melee of uninstalling/reinstalling and massive data loss.

Mint 2 looks great, but from a purely functionality-oriented standpoint it feels very rushed. I was very pleased with the polished and reliable feature-set of Mint 1.2, but I’m not sure if I should regret my $19 upgrade to Mint 2 or not. :-/

—Alex

I was just trying to convey my vaguely-frustrated feelings. Poor choice of words on my part. :-P

As for the version, it was mint 1.29.

At first, it wasn’t clear to me if 1.X peppers would be compatible with mint 2, so (at first) I left them out of the tree. Then, when I got the yellow messages, I obeyed them. (Ie, copied in each pepper that it complained about.)

Is there a way I can identify the glitch in the database and execute a query to fix it? (I’m not unfamiliar with SQL, and I’m at home at the mysql prompt, so just let me know.)

Actually, I was mis-reading your paneOrder array. Everything seems to be in order now. Sorry for the mis-information. It’s just been one of those weeks.

Okay, I haven’t been able to find the cause of this problem (it could have been a conflict with an older Pepper) but I’ve put together a script to rebuild Mint’s internal pane lookup, fixing the problem of disappearing panes. You will need to reorder your panes to your liking afterwards but they will all be there.

I would recommend making a full backup of your Mint database using the Backup/Restore Pepper in the Preferences (just in case). Unzip and upload the script to the root of your Mint directory and visit:

yourdomain.com/mint/rebuild-panes.php

Then proceed to reorder your panes. Should something go wrong (there is very little chance of that happening) you can restore from your recent backup, again using the Backup/Restore Pepper.

Thanks for you patience with this everyone.