It's as if the gods want me to use IPB

[zander]

I've been running tests on both vB and IPB installs over the past couple of months, while lining up a couple of personal projects (this, in wait for vB Gold-er :P :D ). Every step of the way, these hurdles have been springing up in front of the vB side of the equation. First there were the bug riddled releases. Then, yesterday I finally decided that I will run one project on vB and one on IPB. Tonight I finally got some time to go ahead and start mapping out the final approach. I erased the previous install of the vB - because it had been up/down-converted a dozen times and I didn't want any straggler glitches left over - and proceeded to do a fresh install. Bam! "Fatal error" right from step-1 of the install.

 

I've spent all night checking and rechecking files and packages, uploading, erasing, re-uploading. The error simply won't go away. I'm stumped. The host is stumped. In all the years of installing vB, I've never come across this error, or this behaviour from an error; neither has the host.

 

The error is strange, in that it happens at every single step of the install. If I go back and hit "Next" again, the error immediately pops up again. Here's the magic trick, though! If I wait a minute or two and *then* try to proceed to "Next", then it goes to the next step no problem. Then, when I try to go to the step after that, the cycle repeats. The most bizarre error I've ever come across.

 

Anyhow, this post isn't to try and solve the error. No, I have a support ticket in with vB for that. This post is to wonder out loud - "Are the gods trying to tell me something?". LOL

 

"Trust the Force, Luke!" :lol:

[Brandon]

Jump to the dark side B)