Author Topic: Upgrading older CiviCRM - "missing civicrm_settings table" (Read 502 times)

Chris Burgess · March 06, 2014, 08:11:28 pm

A note, for myself as much as for any others. Today, a CiviCRM 3.3.5 to 4.4.x upgrade. Wiki: "as long as you're on 2.2.2, just grab the latest tarball"

Incremental upgrade steps which actually worked were -

Upgrade to 3.4.8 / Drupal6 (little tweak required for PHP5.4 to run the upgrader)
Upgrade to 4.2.16 / Drupal6 (another little tweak to avoid a fatal error on priceset creation)
Upgrade to 4.4.4 / Drupal6 (ran this from Drush since CiviCRM wanted a cache clear but fataled on doing so)

Don't forget to make backups along the way!

Going from 3.4.8 to 4.4.4 fails with missing civicrm_settings, and so does going from 3.4.8 to 4.1.x.

awasson · May 07, 2014, 05:38:50 pm

I was just doing some review on the forum to see if anyone had the same experience as I did and it seems you have.

I did a Drupal 6 + CiviCRM 3.4.5 upgrade to CiviCRM 4.4.5. It failed.

My process for success was:
1) Fresh Database as per: Ensuring Schema Integrity on Upgrades.
2) Upgrade from 3.4.5 to 4.1
The first version with separate distributions for D6 and D7 and the change to civicrm.settings.php

Code: [Select]

define( 'CIVICRM_UF', 'Drupal6');3) Upgrade from 4.1 to 4.4.5
Required the addition to civicrm.settings.php

Code: [Select]

require_once 'CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php';
CRM_Core_ClassLoader::singleton()->register();

The upgrade script to move from 4.1 to 4.4.5 asked for a cache clear which did produce a fatal error but then it ran correctly.

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Author Topic: Upgrading older CiviCRM - "missing civicrm_settings table" (Read 502 times)

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