Broken product link in category view after upgrading AND saving VM configuration

[SteP[IT]]

I have a serious problem after upgrading all my websites from VM 3.2.3 to the latest 3.2.6 (on J 3.8.2)
The upgrade ends normally, and all the links seems to be correct.
But after saving the VM config, I get those messages:

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Loaded virtuemart default configuration from file virtuemart.cfg
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_products_en_gb.product_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_products_en_gb.customtitle
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_products_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_store_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_phone
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_url
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.customtitle
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_invoice_free1
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_invoice_free2
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_mail_free1
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_mail_free2
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.vendor_mail_css
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_categories_en_gb.category_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_categories_en_gb.customtitle
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_categories_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.mf_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.mf_email
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.mf_url
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.metadesc
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.metakey
alterTable ADD j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.customtitle
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturercategories_en_gb.mf_category_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturercategories_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_paymentmethods_en_gb.payment_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_paymentmethods_en_gb.slug
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_shipmentmethods_en_gb.shipment_name
alterTable CHANGE j37tw_virtuemart_shipmentmethods_en_gb.slug
Messaggio
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_products_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 3 added: 0
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_vendors_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 5 added: 5
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_categories_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 3 added: 0
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 4 added: 3
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_manufacturercategories_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 2 added: 0
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_paymentmethods_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 2 added: 0
Table updated: Tablename j37tw_virtuemart_shipmentmethods_en_gb dropped: 0 altered: 2 added: 0
La configurazione è stata salvata

After that operation, all links to products available from a category views do not bring anymore to the corresponding product: the same page is reloaded and the same category view appears.
No other change is made to the site: simply open VM configuration page and hit save.
It's seems now to be a serious problem for me, any hint to catch the error and solve it?
Waiting for any kind of help
Best Regards

[Ventsi Genchev]

https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=138926.0

[SteP[IT]]

a big THANK YOU to Venci 
...but as told by someone else, why do not list this inside a very minimal "to do list" to avoid wasting of time? a simple text advice to show after upgrading completion should be fast and effective.
Regards

[Ventsi Genchev]

It is difficult for me to answer. 

[Milbo]

It was not intended. What else. I "fixed" 2 days before the release a "small" problem. The problem that the fullinstaller does not take the already selected language of the installer. So I changed 1 word, and used an old j2 param instead of the new j3 param.

[SteP[IT]]

Nothing to say against that, "we all are humans and this is great by itself"
... It was already clear the unwanted nature of this problem.
My note was not intended to blame someone: was simply to suggest you to consider to put a small but evident note somewere (file repository, main website, forum, etc) the next time such a thing should happen again, after it has been discovered.
A very short changelog file could help alot to avoid wasting time in asking already solved thinghs
Thank you in any case for the time spent in that project

[Ventsi Genchev]

VM is an extremely complex project. Many things are dependent on Joomla, and satisfy all the wishes of the users.
I follow the development from version 1.5 and I can say it is huge.
So we should be grateful to Max and the whole team for their work that we use for free. And whoever has the opportunity, it would be good to support the project.

[SteP[IT]]

I know that for sure: I'm using VM since that same version. It's not the only product I used in the last two decades, I made projects using all the ecommerce solutions appeared on the free market since more then 15 years, and I probably became quite fully aware of the good and not-good side for each of them. This is why I think that having more targeted communication on smart solutions like this one will make VM more usable and friendly. I generally read all latest available infos about the project before stepping on after each release, but it's really a waste of time, and sometime (like this one) I fail in identify lacks, and need to post a help request as last resort. From this point of view comes my suggestion, nothing more. I understand the project is hard to maintain for free, but sometime a little additional effort could make the difference. Many people would probably like to help, me too....

[Troels_E]

Mistakes happen - only thing that would have been nice was to get a notification somehow so we had a chance to fix in a hurry.

I had this problem at the same time as a problem with Danish special characters (which we foound out was caused by a new plugin) so I was really worried what was happening :-)

Thanks to Max for yet another update!

[Milbo]

I did a small notification, ehrm. But too ashamed to make it big. I added the forum link in the news. Behind the feature, ehrm. All of you, thanks for your words.