Upgraded site from 5.0.8 to 5.1 and now I can't add content

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I've upgraded a 5.0.8 site to 5.1 using buildout and now when I login and try to add content from the toolbar, none of the forms are displayed, I just get a blank area on the screen where the for should be.

Any ideas where I should be looking to debug this one?

2

Did you run the site upgrade on the web interface? A message to run the upgrade should be available at the root of your site structure ( http://localhost:8080/). Are there any error messages on the console or var/log/instance.log?

3

Do you have some older addons installed? If your addons require formlib and CMFDefault the issue might be

Try solving it like this https://docs.plone.org/develop/addons/upgrade_to_51.html#cmfdefault-removal
I did not test if that works, I still have a meta.zcml in my project with:

<configure
    xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope"
    xmlns:zcml="http://namespaces.zope.org/zcml">

  <configure zcml:condition="installed Products.CMFDefault">
      <exclude package="Products.CMFDefault.browser" file="configure.zcml" />
      <exclude package="Products.CMFDefault.formlib" file="configure.zcml" />
      <exclude package="Products.CMFDefault.upgrade" file="configure.zcml" />
  </configure>

</configure>
4

The only addon installed is plone.app.ldap which requires formlib I believe. Adding "zcml += Products.CMFPlone-meta:meta-bbb.zcml" to buildout has fixed this issue.

Thanks for the swift and expert response!

5

Interesting... would you mind filing an issue at Issues · plone/Products.CMFPlone · GitHub on this? Did you have any existing content in the site?

6

I've had this issue on two separate sites, and both sites have existing content which was not affected and could be edited. This problem only affects adding new content.

I've filed a new issue for this at: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/2338

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The issue is already known and the fix is mentioned in https://docs.plone.org/develop/addons/upgrade_to_51.html#cmfdefault-removal. What is probably needed is mentioning the issue and fix in the main upgrade-guide under 'Known issues'.