[TYPO3-dev] Fwd: Re: [TYPO3] upgrade to 4.1.5 issues

[Thomas Bolioli]

I have been posting this to the general list but so far noone has been 
able to answer my question. Although this guys suggestion below is not 
bad, it is not how I will be able to proceed. Right now extensions are 
impossible to load and too many of the extensions are custom written and 
the folks who wrote them are off on vacation. I say this because these 
have been developed locally and I suspect most are not packaged in a way 
that they will install smoothly if I removed and then reinstalled them.

So the problem is:
I upgraded last week to 4.1.5 from 4.0.2 and the ext manager is no 
longer listing extensions when I search for even known extensions. This 
is making upgrading exts rather challenging. Also, FE users can not log 
in any longer. Also, I am trying to run the db analyser and the db 
cleanup under the install tool and neither one will load. This means 
that a db update has not been done which is what I think is my core 
problem at this point. I can't do this because the tools just sit there 
requesting data but neither tool loads. Thay have loaded in the past. 
The database is large but not that large so I do not see why these two 
are having issues. Error logging, etc is useless because the web server 
is not even getting past the request stage. I can tell that because even 
the request is not getting logged in either the error_log or access_log. 
This is for requests that are made to the two db parts of the install 
tool. The rest of the install tool is accessible.
Absent log entries, where do I begin? I am not familiar with the 
internals to even know where to try and get some info out. What I really 
think is happening is the database needs updating and I can't do that 
through the install tool. My original question to the list was, how do I 
do the db update without using the install tool? Is there some libs that 
I can write a small wrapper around and run it from the cl? Is there a cl 
util that already exists for this purpose? With knowledge of where those 
libs are and roughly how to run them, I will write my own but I need a 
starting point.
I really need to do the db compare and update but since the web 
interface is no longer working, I need some cl util to do it. Is there 
anything out there and if not, where do I start with the internals to 
build my own.
Thanks,
Tom

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [TYPO3] upgrade to 4.1.5 issues
Date: 	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:23:29 +1300
From: 	James Knuckey <james.faction at gmail.com>
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I know this is a bit extreme but it may be the simplest and quickest  
solution, it could save you a lot of digging.

Export your database.

Make a brand new installation of typo3, install all the extensions you had  
in the old install. Copy your file and folder tree over (fileadmin and  
uploads I would imagine), plus any other needed template files.

Then, empty the database and import the data you exported.

This is what I ended up doing to fix a problem and it worked, although my  
problem was of a different nature.

If you experience the same problem after that, at least you know it's a  
problem with your database and not with the TYPO3 install!

- James


On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:12:22 +1300, Thomas Bolioli  
<tpblists at terranovum.com> wrote:

> Bernd Wilke wrote:
>> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
>>
>> Other thing coming to mind:
>>
>> * have you a complete TYPO3-source? maybe some files are broken?
>>
>>
> Yes, I re-unpacked it and it still happens.
>> * can you connect to the mysql-server at all?
>> 	(page 1:Basic Configuration)
>>
>>
> Yes, the site is up and running and working fine save the issue with FE
> users unable to login.
>> * any output if you enable sqlDebug?
>> 	(page 5:All Configuration)
>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['sqlDebug'] = '1';
>>
>>
> Nope and it is enabled. See one of my other posts where I explain that
> there is no output at all, including to logs.
>> * have you enabled PHP-error-output at all?
>> 	(page 5:All Configuration)
>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS[SYS][displayErrors] = 1
>>
>>
> Yes, it is.
>> * what is your mysql-host?
>> someone told me: localhost might not always be 127.0.0.1
>>
>>
> lh is 127.... on my system and the DSN is fine for the site since the
> site is up and working fine.
>> at last I would try to locate the source-position, where the script
>> stopped.
>> Analyzing Sources is hard work :-(, but you can learn a lot! :-)
>>
> Absent log entries, where do I begin? I am not familiar with the
> internals to even know where to try and get some info out. What I really
> think is happening is the database needs updating and I can't do that
> through the install tool. My original question to this list was, how do
> I do the db update without using the install tool? Is there some libs
> that I can write a small wrapper around and run it from the cl? Is there
> a cl util that already exists for this purpose? With knowledge of where
> those libs are and roughly how to run them, I will write my own but I
> need a starting point.
>
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