not sure what would have happened… try going to forum – toolbox – housekeeping and resetting the auths cache…

Did that.  No love.

Anything else I can try?

EDIT:  I checked the permissions.  They were RESET by the upgrade!  Ouch.  Now I need to fix them again.

EDIT2:  It also seems that permissions I had checked now show up TWICE in the permissions grid.  One set is checked, the other is not.  Checking the second set seems to fix the problem.

Guess I’ll think twice about upgrading casually again. 

go to your db… the sfauths table… look at the admin_negate column… which rows are set to 1?

are all your sp plugins up to date too?

All plugins were updated at the time of upgrade, immediately following the 5.1.3 install.  Same with themes.

I have 2 rows with admin_negate = 1:

Can view only own posts and admin/mod posts

Can only reply to own topics

OK, it’s worse than I thought.

I can’t make it go away by editing the permissions because the permissions aren’t saving for the duplicate set.

I see this in my permission set (for any of the levels)–this is highly, highly broken and my users are screaming because they can’t see my answers to questions.

I am seeing that forum post you linked to in your first post now. Did you get it working and now saving correctly?

I would really like to hear this solution, since i have the same problem

Any ideas?

It is a shame when people don’t come back and let us know.

Which problem do you mean? Guests not seeing admin posts or problems updating the permissions?

And on the permission set you use for guests have you allowed your guests to view posts made by admins?

I don’t have guests, only members, but the forum can only be viewed by admins.

I have changes permission and reset, just about a 100 times, and alle they see is :

This is probably an artifact of the ‘multiple’ upgrade process.

Have you reset the auth cache as was suggested in post 2 above?

Mmm, but it did’nt work

Re:  Not posting the solution.

What you suggested never worked.  The only thing I was able to get working was to manually reset the permission to add “Show posts from Administrator” to all permission sets.

However, I still have duplicate permissions and only one set of them ever remains checked.  It’s working, but the permissions should not be doubled.  Try that, Janni–look at your permission sets and add that permission to all of them, saving them each time.  I will also bet you have doubled permissions as well.

Dave Rodenbaugh said
Re:  Not posting the solution.

What you suggested never worked.  The only thing I was able to get working was to manually reset the permission to add “Show posts from Administrator” to all permission sets.

However, I still have duplicate permissions and only one set of them ever remains checked.  It’s working, but the permissions should not be doubled.  Try that, Janni–look at your permission sets and add that permission to all of them, saving them each time.  I will also bet you have doubled permissions as well.

How do i do that?

Or refrase: If i change the persmissionsets, the settings don’t save… can i do it in the database, or…?