Originally Posted by eboggs_jkvl (Post 2452206)

Well, sir, my grain of salt was a site down with no clue why. I've done every update faithfully upon it's release and have not had any issues other than 1 previous problem of "uploading attachments" which proved to be some setting that the ISP needed to make. I accepted that issue as it took a few hours and they located the problem easily through error messages. HOWEVER, the site was functioning perfectly and the one problem they were chasing could "wait" and a later fix was acceptable.

This time, my site was giving a full screen of scrolling warnings and then the forum displayed. The error messages were not coming ICW the upload problem and the ISP was spinning their wheels trying to figure out the issue. Without answers or clues, I saw no reason to stay on 4.2.2 and weather the storm hoping for a cure. Yes, being limited on my coder knowledge, I un-updated back to 4.2.1 as that one worked and currently IS working.

I lost a program called VB Garage Pro and the forum I run is Jaxvette.com. Missing the car information from a car site is not an option. Was it vBulletin's fault? Probably not as it was an added program so I'll try and deal with that issue with the other vendor. That was my "modification" conflict and was trouble shot quickly so that really wasn't the issue as that didn't hamper my board's function. I'm still working with that vendor.

So, in conclusion, the forum once again lost the ability to upload attachments. Why? I still haven't gotten an answer for that. It may be on here by now but I haven't scoured the site today to dig out the answer. My patience was a full day of "try this" to see if it fixes it. Well we got the warnings cleared but the upload and garage were still messed up and no prospects of them ever getting corrected.

I'm not mad about this, I'm disappointed. I now have to read the forum and google the world on every update to see what issues are presented. Then, and only then, I can do the update with all of the OMGs on file so I can keep my site up.

True, I'm not a coder, but I am an end user. Without end users, companies fail in a Capitalistic society.

Elmer Boggs


Edit

Nope, no clue yet as to why the upload attachments is failing on 4.2.2. Bear in mind that I'm not the one person in the whole world with this issue. The last time I think it was a "Post bit" issue but nothing so far on the current issue.

Originally Posted by AndrewSimm (Post 2452265)

If you have errors after the upgrade start disabling plugins one by one until the errors go away. Also upgrade to php 5.4.20 if possible.

Originally Posted by Peafor (Post 2452226)

I think I might have to try this.

I also did the upgrade and got errors, thankfully I took back ups of database and forum folder. However, silly me, I reverted to the 4.2.0 patch 3 forum folder but did not replace the database to the saved version.

Now I have a 4.2.2 database with 4.2.0 patch 3 forum. :(

My only option is to try ForceHSS suggestion above or revert to the last saved 'old' version of my database/forum, which was yesterday morning, but I will lose members and posts that have happened in the mean time.

Can I just ask ForceHSS - when you say 'pick the left side option' what does this mean?

I appreciate this thread, don't feel so alone now. :)

Originally Posted by weave (Post 2452268)

My test board is PHP Version 5.4.19 and has all the same issues I saw in the hosted 5.3 server. I will kick it up to .20 and see if that just "fixes" it all

Originally Posted by eboggs_jkvl (Post 2452420)

Ok, after much tension and nerves stress, the board is up and running with all functionality.

I really appreciate the help on this and hopefully won't have the smoking software the next update that comes down.

The "fix" was to

edit class_core.php

and add lines 5683-5686
case E_NOTICE:
case E_STRICT:
case E_DEPRECATED:
case E_WARNING:


Thanks again to all for helping this 70 year old geezer through this.

Elmer