Upgrading 3.5.3 to 3.6.5 ??

[kartik786]

How do I upgrade my exisiting 3.5.3 to 3.6.5 ??

There are a lot of hacks installed in this 3.5.3 version and I have access to download 3.6.5

Can anyone explain how to go about this upgradation ? :D

[Marco van Herwaarden]

To upgrade vBulletin, see http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade

You will need to ask the authors of your modifications if they are compatible with 3.6.5.

[kartik786]

I tried and I was able to get till upgrading it to 3.6.0 beta 2.

But it just doesnt go ahead even after i click next soo many times.

Ne help there?

[Steve Machol]

What exactly are you doing and what happens when you do it?

[kartik786]

I upgraded from 3.5.3 till 3.6.0 beta 1.

In 3.6.0 beta 1, I kept clicking next until step 9, after that when I clicked next, step 10 just doesnt complete.

I thought it might be some error, so I manually changed the url in browser to http://mysite.com/forums/install/upgrade_360b1.php?step=11

But then again, the process for 3.6.0 beta 2 did not go to the next step even after clicking next.

So i think there is some problem in 3.6.0 beta 1 step 10. Maybe if that gets fixed, the upgrade process might run smoothly.

I have also put a ticket in the members support area.

It's already many hours that the site has been down. Please help in this asap.

[kartik786]

Maybe the below information may help.

In addition to the upgrading issue, the main forums page is currently down with this error message :

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Invalid SQL:
SELECT
user.username, (user.options & 512) AS invisible, user.usergroupid,
session.userid, session.inforum, session.lastactivity,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, infractiongroupid
FROM session AS session
LEFT JOIN user AS user ON(user.userid = session.userid)
WHERE session.lastactivity > 1175163806
ORDER BY username ASC;
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'infractiongroupid' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Thursday, March 29th 2007 @ 03:38:27 AM
Script : http://www.mysite.com/forums
Referrer :
IP Address : 125.xx.xx.xxx
Username : realusername
Classname : vb_database

[kartik786]

While the staff is still at it, I thought, i would surf around and give you as much information as possible so that we could resolve this asap.

The step 10 of upgrade vb 3.6.0 beta 1 is very much like the step shown in this thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146052) and the problem is also very much similar, even my forums get stuck at the attachment line and we do have a huge database of attachments over 2 GB. I am unsure about what is file system etc, but the attachments are stored in the database.

Also, the error on index.php is similar to this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199487&highlight=Unknown+column+%27infractiongroupid%27+i n+%27field+list%27) and after reading that i edited the config.php and disabled plugins by entering define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); right after <?php

Hope we can work this out really fast because members are getting restless :(

[tacticalnuke]

You should be able to take your backup and put the forums up while you look into what might be causing this.

[Steve Machol]

FWIW this appeared to be a problem with the PHP time and/or memory settings and increasiung these values allowed the upgrade to go through.