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I've just created a new site using Joomla 1.6.0 and then installed Akeeba backup pro 3.2 beta4

It displays the error
Error

* Error building Admin Menus

What have I done wrong?

That's sort of the reason I use Akeeba backup!

Typically I install joomla on a 'live' (hosted) website, then immediately akeeba. I then backup the virgin site and reinstate the 'live' site on my personal/local webserver. Then develop the site locally. When complete, backup and restore to the live hosted site. Job done, invoice in the post!

Will install joomla 1.6 directly onto my personal/local webserver then akeeba and see what happens.

Cheers.

I forgot to say in previous posts that Akeeba backup is damn good. Thanks.

I've repeated my steps on another blank live site (which I use for development, etc) and can replicate the issue at will (and clear it).

Joomla 1.6 installs ok. php is 5.2.17

Next I installed the Akeeba component 3.1.2-pro (because that's what I'd previously downloaded). After a minute or whatever, it failed and I got a blank screen with 'Done' down the bottom.

So, then I downloaded 3.2.b4-pro and installed that instead. It reported success but also gave 2 xml error messages

JInstaller: :Install: Cannot find Joomla XML setup file
JInstaller: :Install: Cannot find XML setup file
Installing component was successful.

And the component didn't appear in Joomla's menus.

The Akeeba component can be used to overwrite an earlier installation, so I tried to install it again. This time I got the menu error message

Error building Admin Menus
Installing component was successful.

So, the issue seems to be caused by a prior failed component install, not 3.2.b4-pro.

To clear the problem I tried the following:

• I deleted the failed 3.1.2-pro.zip file from the /tmp directory. The component still failed to install (but I suspect this step is necessary).
• Using myphpAdmin I deleted the 3 akeeba entries from the jos_extensions table (screenshot-1)
• Using myphpAdmin I deleted the akeeba entry from the jos_menu table (screenshot-2)

Installed 3.2.b4-pro again and it installed without error.

However!
The akeeba menu item is still missing. I went to the Extension manager -> Manage option and clicked Refresh cache and got a whole list of missing xml errors (screenshot-3).

Yes, I should have checked that I'd got the latest akeeba before I started!

The akeeba menu item was still missing (on site-A), so I installed another joomla (on yet another site) before installing just akeeba 3.2.b4 and this time everything worked as expected.

Comparing the 2 databases, the akeeba entry in jos_menu table on site-A had a component_id of 0 (rather than 10005 or whatever it happens to be in the jos_extensions table).

Editing this value got the akeeba menu and everything seems to be working.

Thanks.