Package Management Broken?

Splittingred, million thx for your suggestions .. Now i know where the logs are, I think both the mysql and php are not really dying .. Will keep poking around when I have time.

In the meantime, is there any way I can just ignore the package-mgt features in the GUI and apply templates and other plugins via the command line? I have some work I must have ready for Monday, so I would prefer to dive right into it rather than spend any more time on this problem .. for now.

Thanks again for all your help ..

I have also now tested this against a xampp install (xampp 1.7.3) and I get exactly the same result .. right down to the different reactions I am getting in firefox and IE ..

So, I there is a case for looking into the file the error is flagging .. this is looking like a bug, which at least affects windoze on wamp/xampp ..

The following is the error message again, as reported by IE:

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Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:53:59 UTC


Message: Object expected
Line: 7
Char: 121113
Code: 0
URI: http://localhost/modx/manager/assets/ext3/ext-all.js

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Just for your info @carlzeto all I did was use PHP 5.3 and all worked for me from RC1. On wamp 2.0i
Do not know what your problem could be

Hope you get it sorted.

I have not upgraded to 2.0.2 PL am still on 2.0.0 PL.

I have never tried IE on local site as I only have IE6 and that will not work with manager I am lead to believe js problem.

allanb, thanks for your post ..

I am on 2.0.1, and that is probably where the bug is from .. I will try 2.0.2 or 2.0.0 if I can find a link to download either of them ..

2.0.1 PL could well be your problem. It has been withdrawn.

I would try 2.0.0 PL if still available.

I usually give new releases a week before I try.

Still a bit new at this.

Thx for the insight .. I have alsonow verified that it seems the same bug is afflicting 2.0.2,which I downloaded and played with last night.

So, I would really appreciate a 2.0.0 download link .. or perhaps u could upload yours to googledocs (or similar) for me?

Anyway, I was forced to crash-learn silverstripe and I am applying it to my immediate time-stressed needs .. So, there is really no emergency anymore, so perhaps I should wait for this issue to go away ..

Thx.