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Upgrade failing from 4.4.5 to 5, I've now tried going to 4.5.1

AN angefpg
angefpg
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Mar 7, 2012 · 7:36 am · Edited

Hi, I’m on WordPress 3.3.1 and was running 4.4.5.

I followed the upgrade steps to move to 5, making sure to deactivate and then delete the old plug in and when I clicked to upgrade, I was shown these results:

Upgrade Aborted
6398
6624
success

I’d spotted that another user gained success on your recommendation of going from 4.4.5 to 4.5.1 first and deleted 5 before putting 4.4.5 into the plug-ins folder via ftp.

In my wordpress dashboard, it appears that this was successful as I can see the forum plug in and navigate around the options, but when I view the forum from the front end I get error messages shown above the header. You can see these if you visit the website fingerpickingguitar.org but I’ve uploaded an attachment screenshot for ease.

I’ve checked with the hosting company and I do have the drop/create privilege that you’ve flagged is sometimes an issue.

 

I’d just like to check, should I be focusing on getting 4.5.1 sorted before I upgrade onto 5, or can I ignore these errors shown in the front end and push on with the upgrade? Thanks in advance!

 

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 7, 2012 · 7:55 am

The error messages revolve around two tables that are removed in the upgrade from V4 to V5. So they were certainly dropped in the process. If you plan to retry the upgrade now then that should not be an issue.

AN angefpg
angefpg
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Mar 7, 2012 · 8:13 am

Excellent, thanks for the speedy response, will let you know how I get on 🙂

AN angefpg
angefpg
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Mar 7, 2012 · 8:51 am

I deactivated, then deleted 4.5.1 then uploaded the 5 zip file through the WP uploader and can activate the new version, but at the upgrade I’ve a new message

Upgrade Aborted
6401
6624
success

I then tried deleting the simple-press files and checking via ftp they were gone from the plug-ins folder before manually uploading the simple-press folder.  When I go to upgrade I get the same message. The front end of the forum is now showing the “it’s being upgraded” message.

Please can you point me in the right direction for what to try to get this completed?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 7, 2012 · 9:40 am

I wish we knew why a small handful of pieple have this issue.
I am starting to think you may have a javascript issue at play here. Can you try to just run the upgrade again but using the default WP theme?

AN angefpg
angefpg
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Mar 7, 2012 · 11:10 am

Thank you so much, we went for the default theme and this time when I click on upgrade I got the progress bar and the upgrade completed in a few seconds.

 

We’re now going to be able to get into using the new upgrade, and enjoying all the new features and improvements. Thank you so much for coming back and guiding me through this!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 7, 2012 · 12:37 pm

You will need to check your forum permissions as I am betting they have been lost.
I can offer you a db script to at least put them back to their default values.

The worry here is that your theme may have a script problem that will also impact the use of SP as it has impacted the upgrade process. try a few things out before celebrating!

AN angefpg
angefpg
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Mar 7, 2012 · 1:19 pm

We hadn’t made many changes to the standard forum, but yes we’ve lost some things so I’m walking through all the options and then will try test posting and see how it goes.