v. 4.21 misery

[eshrink]

vBulletin 4.21 (going from 4.20x) notes that this is not an update but an installation.

I attempted to upload the files, and it one by one by one by... began to change the permission levels of each file on the server.

After two hours, it was still changing these permissions as a slow rate.

Since my site is critical to what I do, I aborted and all is fine (although the permissions for the files touched are likely still wide open).

Would it be better to have my server owner mass-change permissions, and if so, to what value?

Thank you, first time in all these years that I have run into this.

[Zachery]

Sounds like you overwrote your old config.php file when you didn't have to. Otherwise it wouldn't redirect you to the installer, it's saying it can't find the normal vb tables.

[eshrink]

Thank you.

I must be misreading, but I believed that it was saying this is not an interim update but an entire install.

I unpacked the files, and began to FTP them to the server.

I noted that rather than uploading the files, it was CHMOD of each file, one laborious file after another and apparently was going to do this to all files before the transfer of the files began.

After two hours of it changing the "permissions", I aborted it since the site needs to be online, and this was apparently going to take a very long time.

From this innane description I have provided, can you clarify this for me. I do not believe I overwrote the config.php.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by eshrink

Thank you.

I must be misreading, but I believed that it was saying this is not an interim update but an entire install.

I unpacked the files, and began to FTP them to the server.

I noted that rather than uploading the files, it was CHMOD of each file, one laborious file after another and apparently was going to do this to all files before the transfer of the files began.

After two hours of it changing the "permissions", I aborted it since the site needs to be online, and this was apparently going to take a very long time.

From this innane description I have provided, can you clarify this for me. I do not believe I overwrote the config.php.

If you have shell access to the server upload the zip and unpack on the server instead of unpacking locally and then uploading all files, it should make things go faster and likely eliminate the chmoding of everything.

[eshrink]

Thank you, that is an excellent idea.

I was also asking "why this time" is this happening...why is it CHMODing all the files before uloading?

[Calystos]

Just for those who are having problems with upgrading to 4.2.1, and if you have PHP 5.4.x installed, you may wish to know that they also don't even support PHP 5.4 (even though its been out since March 1012 and we're almost at May 2013 now!) to the list of problems. You can NOT upgrade to the 4.2.1 build if you have 5.4 installed. It has a major fit, :-(

They know about this, they've just not bothered to think to add support for 5.4.x... Even though they've had over a year to do so.

Apparently "Compatibility is still planned, yes - I don't have a date for it though I'm afraid." according to a post on the official vbulletin.com forums by Trevor Hannant.

Just thought I'd pass that info along incase anyone else has the same problems I and others have had, :-)