XF 2.2 Failure to update 2.2.17 to 2.3.6

[Frank Chino]

I'm trying to upgrade Xenforo, and am getting a timeout and it fails, never getting past the first message of Verifying..... I see the ZIP file is only 21.3Mb so it shouldn't be a php.ini setting. My server techs looked at the log and see this:

[22-Apr-2025 16:21:33 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: mysqli object is not fully initialized in /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/db/driver/mysqli.php:200Stack trace:#0 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/db/driver/mysqli.php(200): mysqli_query(Object(mysqli), 'SELECT config_n...')#1 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/db/driver/factory.php(345): phpbb\db\driver\mysqli->sql_query('SELECT config_n...', 0)#2 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/config/db.php(72): phpbb\db\driver\factory->sql_query('SELECT config_n...')#3 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/config/db.php(55): phpbb\config\db->initialise(Object(phpbb\cache\driver\file))#4 [internal function]: phpbb\config\db->__construct(Object(phpbb\db\driver\factory), Object(phpbb\cache\driver\file), 'phpbb_config')#5 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(1176): ReflectionClass->newInstanceArgs(Array)#6 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(634): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->createService(Object(Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition), Array, true, 'config')#7 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(1281): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doGet('config', 1, Array, true)#8 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(1238): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doResolveServices(Object(Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference), Array, true)#9 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(1149): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doResolveServices(Array, Array, true)#10 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(634): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->createService(Object(Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition), Array, true, 'cache')#11 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php(588): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doGet('cache', 1)#12 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/includes/compatibility_globals.php(45): Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->get('cache')#13 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/common.php(139): register_compatibility_globals()#14 /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/index.php(23): include('/home/bsvchamp/...')#15 {main}thrown in /home/bsvchamp/public_html/pbb3forum/phpbb/db/driver/mysqli.php on line 200

Not sure what that all means, but I suspect it's telling me what's stopping the update.

The forum posts, users, etc were imported from a PBB Forum originally and this is the first update to Xenforo since that import - this will explain the mention of the pbb3forum folder, though I'm not sure why it would be involved in an update to Xenforo...

 

[Sim]

Yeah, that's still phpBB you're trying to execute there - none of those paths in the trace relate to XenForo.

XenForo paths will have src\XF in them - for example, the DB classes are at src\XF\Db\

I think you're executing the wrong upgrade process.