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I recently upgraded an empty copy of my site to Joomla 2.5.11 and CiviCRM 4.3.1; both upgrades said they completed successfully.

I then tried to import contacts into this upgraded copy, using a csv file that I had previously used successfully tp populate my production database (which had been running older versions of both Joomla and CiviCRM).

However, instead of importing my contacts, I am getting the subject reason in my downloaded "errors" csv file for every single record in the file :-(

Since I was trying to import records into an empty CiviCRM database, I had specified "no duplicate checking" on the first page of the import dialog.  I was able to capture and browse a page of the civicrm_import_job_NNNNN table, and of course all of the fields and field values looked ok, so I have no idea (because of the null string) which custom field might be causing the problem.

So, I tried importing the records again, but this time I specified "do not import" for all of my custom fields except one.  The import worked.

Finally, I tried importing the records again (this time, with all custom fields included), and "Fill" (instead of "no duplicate checking") specified on the first page of the import dialog -- and the one successfully-imported custom field specified as the dedupe rule.  The import failed with the following message:

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in <site home directory>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php on line 1047

This line reads as follows:
$contactID = $newContact['error_message']['params'][0];

Any ideas?

Exact same error during import.
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/xxxx/public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php on line 1047

In logs:
Location   https://xxxx.com/civicrm/import/contact
Referrer   https://xxxx.com/civicrm/import/contact?_qf_MapField_display=true&qfKey=8ceeb543bbdf24e47b0bbb8341ccbadd_2097
Message   Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in buildQuickForm() (line 597 of /home/xxxx/public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Form/MapField.php).

No backtrace generated.