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I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I've been trying to solve it for a week now without luck. The problem is, I can't add any internal (node/xxx) links to primary-links. After I add one, it appears, but I cannot edit or add any nodes until I delete that menu item. If I try to edit a node, i get the message "username admin does not exist". It looks like this triggers an effect that is causing admin user to lose permisson for node_access. After I delete the created menu item, everything is back to normal... until I add another menu item.

Here's a summary:

  • I can add external links to primary-links, no problem
  • I can add internal links to seconday-links, no problem
  • It doesn't matter if I add the menu item manually or by specifying one on the node edit page, the effect is the same
  • The language, weight and position of the menu item doesn't matter, as long as I add an internal link to primary-links, the above problem appears
  • I tried to rebuild the menu, disable modules, clear the cache, rebuild permissions, no luck
  • I double checked the menu_links table, there were some orphan items (had no parents) which I deleted, but otherwise everything is fine

I am using Drupal 6.19 with only one user (the admin), a bunch of modules and 11 languages. I must solve this problem soon as we need to add another language and it'll definately need some internal links in the menu.

Edit: Here are the modules currently enabled:

CCK

  • Content 6.x-2.8
  • Content Copy 6.x-2.8
  • FileField 6.x-3.7
  • FileField Sources 6.x-1.2
  • Node Reference 6.x-2.8
  • Number 6.x-2.8
  • Option Widgets 6.x-2.8
  • Text 6.x-2.8

Location

  • IP to Locale 6.x-1.0-rc1
  • Smart IP 6.x-1.3

Meta tags

  • Nodewords 6.x-1.11
  • Nodewords - basic meta tags 6.x-1.11

Multilanguage

  • Block translation 6.x-1.7
  • CCK translation 6.x-1.7
  • Content type translation 6.x-1.7
  • Internationalization 6.x-1.7
  • Menu translation 6.x-1.7
  • String translation 6.x-1.7

Other

  • Custom Page 6.x-1.17
  • Custom Page Admin UI 6.x-1.17
  • GeoIP 6.x-1.4
  • Global Redirect 6.x-1.2
  • Menu attributes 6.x-2.0-beta1
  • Menu breadcrumb 6.x-1.3
  • Page Title 6.x-2.3
  • Path redirect 6.x-1.0-rc2
  • Token 6.x-1.15
  • Webform 6.x-3.14

I can provide any information if you can help, just ask!

Thanks in advance

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  • In order to get reasonable answers here you are going to need to provide a list of contrib modules installed, and possibly their versions. Also, any particular reason why you are on a really old version of Drupal 6 (it came out over 2 years ago)? If core is that far out of date, I shudder to think how far contrib is behind.
    – wiifm
    Commented Oct 4, 2012 at 11:12
  • I know that 6.19 is very old, but I have a lot of tasks beside maintaining the site, and the company has an unwritten "if it's working, don't mess with it" policy. I will try to update the site, but I don't want to break it as I only have FTP and PHPMyadmin access to the server, nothing more. I can't rebuild the database myself in case of a failure. I inserted the moduls I use into the original question.
    – Moha
    Commented Oct 4, 2012 at 13:39
  • Well clearly this falls into the "broken" category, adding items to the menu is a fairly core piece of functionality. I would suggest rebuilding the site locally, updating core and all the contrib, and then attempting to re-ask this question. At the moment I feel it is un-answerable.
    – wiifm
    Commented Oct 4, 2012 at 23:05
  • I created a local copy of the site as you suggested. I then disabled EVERY module except the menu module, and the problem is still there. After I disabled the menu module, the issue is gone (but obviously I can't edit menus then). So, it must be an issue in the Drupal core. I'll try to update the core now.
    – Moha
    Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 9:57
  • I am now close to giving it up... :( I updated my local copy to core version 6.26 (the latest), then updated all modules that have updates (13 of them), then emptied cache and rebuilt permissions. The problem still occurs... What on Earth could I still try?
    – Moha
    Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 12:05

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Issue solved.

Looks like that with the large menu tree, Mysql packet size was exceeded.

I just added the following to mysql config (my.ini) and the issue resolved:

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 16M
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