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Just upgraded my install to 4.5.7 (had been running the 4.5.4). The upgrade went fine.

I imported 10 households and then went to the Quick Create New and selected Individual. I got the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getCreateLinks() in   /sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Resources.php on line 575

I attempted to clear caches and got the same thing. Now it won't let me do anything without giving me the fatal error.


Weirdest thing:  It just all of a sudden started working. I refreshed and it cleared the cache in civicrm and rebuilt the menu and it started working. Not sure what happened.

Scratch that!!!!!  Now when I try to create an individual it gives me the following fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getCreateLinks() in /sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/Form/Edit/Address.php on line 289

Any ideas anyone??

I have too. I had started with 4.5.3 I think and had upgraded up to 4.5.5. I upgraded from there to 4.5.7 and the upgrade went fine but after I did the household import of the 10 records I started getting the errors. Now i can't access Civi at all I get the fatal error from the Resources.php

Checking this in 4.5 beta 8 and the function is there and I'm not able to recreate this error with the steps described.

I  just attempted to upgrade from 4.5.4 to 4.5.8 and the upgrade finished fine without any errors. However, after viewing a contact and then clicking on Edit the contact I get the Fatal Error again.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getCreateLinks() in /sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Resources.php on line 577

Civi is complete inaccessible after getting the error and any attempt to reload the page or exit the page and load a new page results in the same Fatal Error.

I'm on civihosting so I know it's not a hosting issue. What could be the issue?

One thing I can think of: that your db was damaged before you began this process. You don't say whether your initial installation was a new one for 4.5. beta 4 or whether it had itself been upgraded from a previous version.

I would suggest that you run through the schema integrity checking process, which I assume still holds true for 4.5 as for previous versions, and see if that fixes your problem. It's certainly saved my bacon on a few occasions: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Ensuring+Schema+Integrity+on+Upgrades

So I went through and checked the db. there were a few minor differences so for safety sake and to rule out the db I did a clean install of the structure and then imported my data into the fresh db for 4.5.4. Everything worked fine.

I attempted an upgrade to 4.5.8, upgrade proceeded fine with no errors. After the upgrade I opened a contact and it worked ok. Then I attempted to create a new Individual Contact and immediately got this Fatal Error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getCreateLinks() in /home/saintfran/www/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/Form/Edit/Address.php on line 250

I back out of that page and attempt to go to another page and get the fatal error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getCreateLinks() in /home/saintfran/www/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Resources.php on line 577

Thanks for reporting back on your findings. It would great to know if you are able to pin it down to any particular extension or extensions so that others can be aware and either disable the extension or opt to wait for/support a compatible release of the extension before upgrading.

This makes me wonder whether, now that the use of extensions is perhaps more widespread, there should be a warning notice on the upgrade wiki pages at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+4.5+-+Drupal+7 and associated pages for other CMSs alerting users to the potential problems of non-compatible extensions. Should extensions be disabled when running an upgrade?

The extension ecology still seems pretty nascent in terms of the generally pretty limited availability of good quality documentation and support mechanisms. Perhaps the imminent arrival of 4.5 might be a good opportunity (for presumably the core team?) to facilitate improvements on this front as part of a programme to encourage and enable extension developers to ensure their code is 4.5-ready. Looking at https://civicrm.org/extensions I can't see any means of filtering by compatibility with major release versions, and this forum has a rather jumbled approach to extensions IMO that doesn't make things easy for users seeking support.