"Requested User Not Found" when trying to assign permissions

Sorry, that error was “The requested user does not exist”.

Hello, i’ve test it before to release, and the transfer was ok, by the way, i’m going right now to re-test to see if something fail.
In the while, you can repeat the process: users that exist with same username on phpbb if there are, are overwrite about email address, nothing more. Looking … let know

It’s very strange. Here’s how to see the error in action:

1.) Log in to the ACP, and click the “Users and Groups” tab
2.) click “Manage Users”
3.) Click “[Find a Member]”
4.) Choose a member using the “[Select]” link under their name.
5.) Click “Submit”

This works for about half the users I transfer, but fails for the rest. I’ve looked at the mysql _users table, and I can’t find any obvious differences for them, so I’m at a loss.

Nothing, all ok about users transfer on 1.2.2.
I’ve try out now a transfer of 8 test users and all is ok.

One doubt: is your phpBB users table, a default phpBB users table? Or it contain fields that have been added by some mod?
Can you post your phpbb_users table structure?

The only two reason for the transfer fail that come out on my mind are:
1) too many users x time added, so the transfer fail at some point of the process. Repeat the transfer with less users to be transferred x time.

2) Your phpbb_users table do not match the default install one.
Post the table structure if you can. I will give you the modified file with modified query to match your phpbb_users table.

Any error while transferring?

No errors listed while transferring, and this is a default installation of phpBB (I just did the install about an hour ago, in fact). I only transferred 20-maximum users (there are only 6 users registered in my WP site currently). Of those 6 users, 3 cannot be managed.

I’m not sure what could be causing this.

Really strange, as the transfer script is very simple.
3 users cannot be managed after the transfer, on phpBB admin? Or where?
Users that have no role on WP are added in phpBB as users with no capabilities.

The users with the issue cannot be managed in phpBB admin. These users have varying WP roles (two are editors, one is an admin).

Can you try to replace the file wp_w3all_users_to_phpbb.php inside your wp-w3all-phpbb / views folder with this and try to transfer:
https://www.axew3.com/common/wp_w3all_users_to_phpbb.zip
and let know what going on?

I replaced the file and did another transfer, and it completed successfully as before. Still can’t manage those users, however ??

Something I noticed is they are all listed as having 1 post, when none of them have ever logged in to phpBB and there are currently no posts on the forum at all.

OK about the posts count you have reason: it has been fixed. But this can’t be the cause of the transfer problem, by the way thank you to mention as now it has been fixed.

As final test, if you can, delete all users from phpBB ACP, OR if you can’t, transfer and rewrite users with this new transfer file:
https://www.axew3.com/common/wp_w3all_users_to_phpbb.zip

also the online 1.2.2 will be immediately patched about post count issue fix.

File replaced again as instructed, transfer succeeded again, and again I can’t manage the same 3 users via phpBB’s “Users and Groups” tab.

Just to make sure everything’s default, I deleted all the tables in the phpBB database and reinstalled before performing this test, but it didn’t seem to make any difference.

For what it’s worth, I CAN choose to prune these users and it’s successful if I select them by their email address instead of user name.

If I have the users sign up manually, I can manage them without issue in phpBB. Even after doing a transfer from WordPress they can be managed successfully.

I’m using phpBB 3.1.8, by the way (not sure if I mentioned that).

Definitely something strange going on with the transfer.

thank you for test. I’ve just re-transfer users, two of those with no role assigned on WP, and one administrator … all work perfect here, under any admin menu you go to administer users. If the user is added as deactivated on phpBB, than they are correctly on list under Users and Groups tab -> Inactive users and all return ok when i try to edit any of those. Administrators on WP are transferred by the way as normal users on phpBB, so you have to set they as admin in phpBB manually after transfer. (this can be improved on next versions, it is very easy). Returning to your problem:

So this not active users have been removed/pruned, as also on WP side they was inactive users? … so you can run the integration without problems now if this is the scenario.

If you want to send me these sql dumps (with sensitive data changed) i will take a look to what evil it can be. Very curious!

I would be happy to send a dump (There really isn’t any sensitive info yet). Do you have somehwere I could upload to?

1.2.3 will be released in minutes, to solve the user addition with 1 post count (that isn’t problematic bug but need to be fixed) and to fix the more important bug about persistent login (also if 1.2.2 have been already patched about this today).