XF 2.2 Go backwards after updating to Beta 1 ?

[Aluminum Pints]

Is it possible to go backwards after after updating to 2.2 Beta 1 ? If it is, what steps would I need to do ?

I would like to update the site from 2.2 Beta 1 back to the last stable release of 2.1 if that makes any sense.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Hopefully you took a backup? Normally the way to go back is restore to your backup

 

[Aluminum Pints]

Hopefully you took a backup? Normally the way to go back is restore to your backup

i upgraded a week or so ago and no backup available ( only keep 3 days worth ) ... so I am guessing I am hosed. site is fine at beta 1 but beta 2 breaks all kinds of stuff so did fall back to a backup to return to beta 1.

 

[Chris D]

What breaks in Beta 2 exactly?

 

[Aluminum Pints]

What breaks in Beta 2 exactly?

Wish I had recorded it but I panicked and restarted server then the site was just stuck on this board is being upgraded message ... could not get it to do anything else so had to fall back

 

[Chris D]

Beta 2 shouldn't be any less stable than Beta 1.

Ideally you need to do this in a test environment rather than a live one. At least then you have some breathing space to rectify issues if any arise.

 

[Aluminum Pints]

Beta 2 shouldn't be any less stable than Beta 1.

Ideally you need to do this in a test environment rather than a live one. At least then you have some breathing space to rectify issues if any arise.

Beta 1 installed with no errors and is running fine. Upgrading to Beta 2 was not good.

We are small forum so no big deal. Not like millions are affected. I gather there is no way to go backwards. Is there a planned timeframe for 2.2 to get released ?

 

[ge66]

Maybe try to redo the update if something went wrong/wasn't uploaded first time, and disable addons.

 

[Chris D]

Beta 1 installed with no errors and is running fine. Upgrading to Beta 2 was not good.

We are small forum so no big deal. Not like millions are affected. I gather there is no way to go backwards. Is there a planned timeframe for 2.2 to get released ?

There is no way to go backwards, indeed.

We strongly believe you won't have run into any stability issues that are due to be resolved so at some point you may face the same issues when you try to do the upgrade again either to Beta 2 or a subsequent version.

With that in mind, while there's likely no big deal now, when you come around to doing the upgrade properly, we'd strongly recommend doing it on a test database so you can address any issues with less urgency.

 

[Aluminum Pints]

thanks @Chris D will do. the article feature deal, could that be considered a replacement for xenporta 2 ?

 

[Chris D]

I'm not overly familiar with XenPorta but I would suspect article threads and article forums should be a reasonable replacement, yes.

 

[Aluminum Pints]

just tried upgrading to beta 3 and this appears to be the same place where beta 2 stopped and i fell back to beta 1.


An exception occurred: [XF\Db\Exception] MySQL statement prepare error [2006]: MySQL server has gone away in src/XF/Db/AbstractStatement.php on line 228

1. XF\Db\AbstractStatement->getException() in src/XF/Db/Mysqli/Statement.php at line 196
2. XF\Db\Mysqli\Statement->getException() in src/XF/Db/Mysqli/Statement.php at line 39
3. XF\Db\Mysqli\Statement->prepare() in src/XF/Db/Mysqli/Statement.php at line 54
4. XF\Db\Mysqli\Statement->execute() in src/XF/Db/AbstractAdapter.php at line 94
5. XF\Db\AbstractAdapter->query() in src/XF/Session/DbStorage.php at line 57
6. XF\Session\DbStorage->writeSession() in src/XF/Session/Session.php at line 215
7. XF\Session\Session->save() in src/XF/Install/App.php at line 190
8. XF\Install\App->complete() in src/XF/App.php at line 2301
9. XF\App->run() in src/XF.php at line 459
10. XF::runApp() in install/index.php at line 14

this does not appear to be add-on related ?

 

[Aluminum Pints]

oops seems to be timeout related so going to try again after increasing some php settings

 

[Aluminum Pints]

strange ... related to rebuilding the search index.

 

[Aluminum Pints]

fell back to before beta 3 upgrade database and ran rebuild search index and was getting same error as the install would fail and stop at.

tweaked some php settings and still failed. changed items per page to 200 and the task finished properly

figured i was home free and tried installing beta 3 again. bam, same error.

 

[Aluminum Pints]

i changed these ( among other options previously ) and it finally updated successfully.

wait_timeout=600
interactive_timeout=600
long_query_time=10