Error building Admin Menus

I am trying to install Chronoforms_J1.6_V4_RC1.9 on Joomla 1.6.1, but continue to get "Error building Admin Menus" and am not able to access the component even though it says "Installing component was successful". I have installed and reinstalled multiple times, I've tried versions 1.6, 1.8 and 1.9, still the same error. What to do next?

Hi dbran,

Please try upgrading Joomla! to the current release -- 1.6.3 I think. There was a problem with Menu Items in one of the releases.

Bob

I upgraded to version 1.6.3, uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version of Chronoforms. Same problem. Hmmm... any other suggestions? Thanks so much.

Hi dbran,

I found this on this thread in the Joomla! forums:

I had the same problem with one of my extensions on a clean 1.6.0 site. Installing the extension always gave the error, "Error building Admin Menus". Uninstalling gave the error, "Could not delete the administrator menus.". No amount of uninstalling and reinstalling fixes the problem. The only solution was to manually delete the menu entries from jos_menu:

delete FROM `jos_menu` where title like "COM_MYEXTENSION%"

After that, everything worked fine.

Sorry, I can't identify what caused the problem in the first place. If it happens again and I figure it out I will post here.

Bob

That was the magic I needed, it worked like a charm! Thanks a ton.