This portal started out as an early 4.0 site.
Yes, I have been very careful to investigate all of the modules to ensure I have the latest version that should be DNN 5.5 compatible. I even tested most third party modules on my other working DCC v5.5 sites to be sure. This is one reason I have waited so long to attempt this upgrade. not smooth sailing.

I could not upgrade this from DNN 4.9.5 to DNN 5.5.0 directly as I found a compatibility problem with the Events module. Went from 4.9.5 to 5.2.3, upgraded Events to latest version, then I tried to upgrade to 5.5.0. Still problems with a sql data provider (5.3.0).

I then looked thoroughly and  found lots of old sql tables, sprocs, dlls left hanging around from over the years. cleaned all that up, and the upgrade from DNN 5.2.3 to 5.5.0 then completed successfully, except for the two problems documented above.

There is no real option to uninstall modules in a production environment if they have a lot of data associated with them. However I could install a couple of additional modules on a test 5.5.0 site to see it that breaks anything. But I'm more inclinde to think there is something else at play here since the vbc.exe compiler is being called during this operation.

I would bet if more users actually tried to edit languages as I am trying, I bet a lot more complaints would pop up. I only have the English language, but I customized some text in certain modules, and even what is sent out during a registration. My experience says very few admins even know about what they can do with the language editor in this reqard.

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Rob Ralston, SilverBullet Technologies LLC, www.silverbullettech.com

if you are using a single language only, preferred language might not properly set for your portal. did you try to re-save preferred language and site settings?

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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