[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Hi Andrew.

I'm having some pretty big problems with upgrading from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7.

I uploaded everything to the server.
I then go into Plugin & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product

I bring in product-eirma_ldm.xml and mark for it to overwrite and press import.

The next screen starts with the "please wait".. it then prints out this info

Links and Downloads Manager
Checking installation status...
Currently installed version: 2.2.6
Checking environment...
Environment checked
Creating LDM database tables
Step 1 - Verifying database tables
Patching (1) LDM database tables
Initialising admin table
Patching (2) LDM database tables
Recording version number 2.2.6 in database
Cleaning templates

And stops... it does nothing else. I let it sit for 10 minutes just in case it was because of the size of our database, but it doesn't do anything. Our database, zipped is only around 6 MB.

Any ideas?

A few thoughts.

First, if you've reported accurately the sequence of messages, then you've still got at least one of the version 2.2.6 files sitting on your server (the local_links_init.php) file, which produces the message "Recording version number 2.2.6 in database".

I've seen a number of reports over the last few months where the ftp code upload hasn't worked correctly, and one then gets very unpredicable behaviour which is essentially impossible to code safeguards against.

Second point is that the LDM installer has printed out all its messages - the 'Cleaning templates' message is the final message before passing control back to vbulletin. So it looks to me as if the installer has done its job and then vb itself is going to sleep. I don't know why that should be.

Do you guys periodically reoptimise your VB database? It's a good idea from time to time to go to vb/admin/maintenance/repair and optimise tables and do a couple of cycles of repair/optimisation. MySQL can slow down quite a bit after heavy use.

If none of this helps, let me know - am, as always, very happy to take a look.