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Rick Cunningham

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Upgrading CiviCRM 4.3.7 to 4.4.2 Anomaly
November 24, 2013, 05:42:32 am
I've just upgraded my site from 4.3.7 to 4.4.2 and the upgrade script (the upgrade now button) doesn't produce an "upgrade successful" screen with links, but instead produces a screen with the two-line message:

CiviCRM Upgrade Tasks
[]

No links, no other message.
Also note that even though I had not logged out as administrator, the site was in maintenance mode and I received an "access denied"

I'm assuming that the upgrade happened, but would like to know if I should be worried. Is there any way to tell whether the upgrade script ran? Are there key database modifications that I can check?

Thanks for any assistance.

Rick

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Re: Upgrading CiviCRM 4.3.7 to 4.4.2 Anomaly
November 24, 2013, 08:04:51 am

i would be a wee bit worried and would try again :) in general errors should not occur in the upgrade process (and if they do, something did go wrong!)

you can check the sql files in CRM/Upgrade/Incremental/sql for the more recent versions and see if the changes are present. that might give u an idea where the process stopped

might also want to check the apache error logs

lobo
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Rick Cunningham

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Re: Upgrading CiviCRM 4.3.7 to 4.4.2 Anomaly
November 24, 2013, 11:00:42 am
Thanks, Lobo,

Turns out there were a number of other things going on, and I've rolled back to last night and will retry the upgrade - did discover that there were at least two incorrect characters in the civicrm.settings.php file - the first line should not have anything before the open caret, but my first line had:

lf<?php

I'm not experienced enough to know what all the effects of this are (did it disable settings entirely? was it evidence I'd messed up the file thoroughly?) but I did have a single line with "lf" showing up on drupal pages, just below the top admin menu, and an lf would show up on civi pages at various points in the page. Will go back and do a file compare with an original version of settings and see what else I screwed up. Again, thanks from all of us for being there!
Rick

I'll come back and clean this up/explain things once I figure what happened.

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Re: Upgrading CiviCRM 4.3.7 to 4.4.2 Anomaly
November 28, 2013, 08:07:33 pm
OK, my mac had been giving me problems using the code editor on the bluehost site. For some reason, hitting Ctrl-F to bring up a search box, and then typing the search term, was changing focus halfway through the search term - so if I searched for FALSE I would possibly put FAL in the search box and SE at the front of whatever file I was editing.

Needless to say this behaviour of putting random characters into a file like civicrm.settings.php did not improve the reliability of my installation. I backed everything out and started again and all is OK. The previous [] box with nothing in it became a notification of which DB update was being installed. The upgrade has a progress bar and informed me as each version upgrade to the DB was made, finishing with 4.2.2

Sorry to clutter the forum, but this had me stumped until I found the problem. As Lobo says, be very concerned if the upgrade script shows no activity or progress.

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