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9/4/2008 11:03 PM
 
Alvin Tang

Joined: 5/6/2005
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Timo Breumelhof wrote
 

Stupid question: did you remove the DNN_blue skin?

What version of DNN?

 

 

Definitely not a stupid question...nope, everything is in there, didn't remove any default skins.

The version of dnn is 4.8.4

 
 
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9/6/2008 9:01 AM
 
Marc


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I've got the same problem - Logged in as host, when I go to the Admin->Skins, or Host->Skins I get:

Error: Skins is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.SkinDefaults..ctor(SkinDefaultType DefaultType) at DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.get_DefaultSkin() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.isFallbackSkin(String skinPath) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.ProcessSkins(String strFolderPath) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.ShowSkins() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.LoadSkins() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

So any ideas why would be good so this can be fixed.
 
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9/6/2008 9:54 AM
 
Timo Breumelhof


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I'm not sure what this could be so here's what I think you could look at.

As there is something about the default skin in the error message it seems DNN cannot find it.

You should check what the default skin is:

Look in /config/dotnetnuke.config for this:

            <skinningdefaults>
                <skininfo folder="/DNN-Blue/" default="Horizontal Menu - Fixed Width.ascx" admindefault="Horizontal Menu - Fixed Width.ascx" />
                <containerinfo folder="/DNN-Blue/" default="Image Header - Color Background.ascx" admindefault="Image Header - Color Background.ascx" />
            </skinningdefaults>

 

Check if the skin that is assigned there exists and if it does try to use it as a regular skin to check if it has any errors.

( this is why I asked if the default blue skin had been removed)

 

 
 
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9/8/2008 3:19 PM
 
Marc


Joined: 6/28/2007
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The snippet above wasn't in the /config/dotnetnuke.config but it was in the root dotnetnuke.config file.

Also, the skin DNN-Blue files are there.  So this is still a bit strange.  Any other ideas what to check or why this might be happening would be good.

Thanks
 
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9/10/2008 8:08 PM
 
Alvin Tang

Joined: 5/6/2005
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allingtm wrote
 

The snippet above wasn't in the /config/dotnetnuke.config but it was in the root dotnetnuke.config file.

Also, the skin DNN-Blue files are there.  So this is still a bit strange.  Any other ideas what to check or why this might be happening would be good.

Thanks

 

 

Interesting thing is I've found some installs without that additional codes and those work without a hitch...
 
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