It's likely to be to do with browser differences in the users uploading files. One of the updates we had to make for 1.5 involved Internet Explorer returning a completely different MIME-type for JPEGs; it's possible that the same thing is happening for MP3s.

PHP 5.3 contains a new set of functions that will detect filetype from the saved bits (as opposed to what the uploading browser tells it), but they're too new to rely on yet.

Omg thx for the info and direction Ben, was looking and thinking about this from a server side perspective, didn't think from client side. :)

Again, huge felicitations for all the work you all made on elgg, it's amazing and wonderful :)

For the record, and for the information, found a fix about the problem.

This problem could affect any plugin using file upload, and is related to php mime magic function.

Mime magic support is broken inside some debian/ubuntu versions, maybe on some other systems, you have to check your phpinfo().

You should have inside a

mime_magic support        enabled

If you have it disabled, you have the 'bug'. To fix it, here's the sumup :

On Debian/Ubuntu system, You'll have to modify your php.ini (located /etc/php5/apachex) and add the following section in the end of it.

[mime_magic]
mime_magic.magicfile = "/usr/share/file/magic.mime"

Depending of your version too, the mime file may 'not be ok' too, so you'll have to turn on startup error logging in php config file, restart your web server and check the problems eventually appearing regarding mime magic (and fix the wrong lines).

Hope this will help!!

Yes, but you report that your widgets are broken in the page linked above. My point is that they could never have worked in the first place if you were running 1.2 without a private settings table.

So I guess I'm wondering if you are upgrading from 1.1 or 1.2.  If what you have is a sort of combination of the code from both, then I'm not surprised that the upgrade script is getting confused.

I can tell you that they do and still are, heres the tables - I can send you the URL to the site if you like :

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

Yes, but you report that your widgets are broken in the page linked above. My point is that they could never have worked in the first place if you were running 1.2 without a private settings table.

So I guess I'm wondering if you are upgrading from 1.1 or 1.2.  If what you have is a sort of combination of the code from both, then I'm not surprised that the upgrade script is getting confused.

I can tell you that they do and still are, heres the tables - I can send you the URL to the site if you like :

This worked for me - but I was adding a theme and it did not seem to work for Kyle.

http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=32571&group_guid=11

Having the same probs and have activated both crontrigger and garbagecollector - but still no joy - looking at the entities table at the moment - but like looking for a needle in a haystack

I think you need to know what the correct "guid" is. 

They recommend not deleting anything from the database.

I'm not sure if my deletion of the row in the "entities" table will break anything later.. so far so good... 

agh - oh ok - lost the guid after the garbage collector and cron widgets were enabled !

Having the same probs and have activated both crontrigger and garbagecollector - but still no joy - looking at the entities table at the moment - but like looking for a needle in a haystack

I think you need to know what the correct "guid" is. 

They recommend not deleting anything from the database.

I'm not sure if my deletion of the row in the "entities" table will break anything later.. so far so good... 

agh - oh ok - lost the guid after the garbage collector and cron widgets were enabled !

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

Having the same probs and have activated both crontrigger and garbagecollector - but still no joy - looking at the entities table at the moment - but like looking for a needle in a haystack

I think you need to know what the correct "guid" is. 

They recommend not deleting anything from the database.

I'm not sure if my deletion of the row in the "entities" table will break anything later.. so far so good... 

agh - oh ok - lost the guid after the garbage collector and cron widgets were enabled !

Having the same probs and have activated both crontrigger and garbagecollector - but still no joy - looking at the entities table at the moment - but like looking for a needle in a haystack

I think you need to know what the correct "guid" is. 

They recommend not deleting anything from the database.

I'm not sure if my deletion of the row in the "entities" table will break anything later.. so far so good... 

agh - oh ok - lost the guid after the garbage collector and cron widgets were enabled !

The delete issue has been resolved and will display correctly in the final release.

Regarding tags, you'll need to update your .htaccess from htaccess_dist. Delete .htaccess and copy htaccess_dist to that filename, or just delete .htaccess and Elgg will try to do the rest.

Ben - that's great. Tags fixed - thanks.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

The delete issue has been resolved and will display correctly in the final release.

Regarding tags, you'll need to update your .htaccess from htaccess_dist. Delete .htaccess and copy htaccess_dist to that filename, or just delete .htaccess and Elgg will try to do the rest.

Ben - that's great. Tags fixed - thanks.

OK, it shows up now without doing anything... maybe I didn't see it because of caching...

The delete issue has been resolved and will display correctly in the final release.

Regarding tags, you'll need to update your .htaccess from htaccess_dist. Delete .htaccess and copy htaccess_dist to that filename, or just delete .htaccess and Elgg will try to do the rest.

Ben - that's great. Tags fixed - thanks.

@M.C.  that's quit a list.  Am I correct that all are Enabled?  If so here is what works for me.  First elgg will place the news plugins at the bottom by default, start by disabling each one at a time, dumping the simplecache and starting simple cache back up each time.

Now I can tell you you may have some plugins located wrong, example is to keep like minded plugin together like blog and place blogextended just below it.  walltowall just under messageboard, I group all my profile related plugin together.  Keep custom_index either very top or very bottom.

I understand a lot of plugin developers say to place the plugin at the bottom, but not every plugin can have this position.

Make sure garbagecollector and logrotate are set to weekly and force a cron clean up.  www.xxxxxx.com/pg/cron/weekly.

Now my advice is do as I say not as I do because you have so many plugin I would conside which ones you realy need, your site will be much faster.

Hope this helps

Hi Goofbucket

Thank you for helping me. I tried the cron and minue i turn off the simple cache, all css goes off.

I disabled all plugins and its still the same.

Strange its happening with all plugins disabled.

The minute i click enable simple cache, site loads normally

Im debugging and making changes so i need to disable caching

What could be the issue

so your java is back, and yes this is an issue with simplecache, and I am sorry but probably over my head. Do a search on simple cache and you should find the right thread with the right people.  sorry I could not help more.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

thanks Kevin. This is a fresh reinstall.

imagecreatefromjpeg() does not exist so it can't call it! I'll compile lib-jpeg into PHP but it'll take a while as the source won't compile on OS X! That's the prob though.

@kevin The fragments left by the user deletion error are cleaned up by the GC, so it might be good to trigger the garbage collector...