Upgrade to drupal 7.18 causes wsod and strange parse error

Posted by mfgr on January 5, 2013 at 2:57pm

I've updated my website to drupal 7.18 this morning, and after neatly uploading all the files from the zip after deleting the existing ones i got the wsod. I activated the error messages and then I got this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /opt/www/www.mywebsite.com/htdocs/includes/file.inc on line 1800

this seems an odd error since there is no * in lin 1800 of that file, so I'm guessing a random error is displayed to indicate there's something wrong. I just don't know what it is. Can anyone help? I reported an issue on the drupal core project page but since it's not a bug in the core they don't seem to want to help out. Meanwhile I'm stuck with a dead website while I think a more experienced drupal user could easily figure out what's wrong. Or not, I don't know.... But I hope someone out there can help.

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Posted by drupalisme on January 5, 2013 at 4:15pm

What do you mean by updated to 7.18? I mean from which Drupal version your previous site
Open file.inc and check if something broken, to make sure please re-upload
Look at your web server log file, what was logged there?

My previous version was 7.16.

Posted by mfgr on January 5, 2013 at 4:30pm

My previous version was 7.16. There are no irregularities in the file.inc, but i re- uploaded all the same: no difference. Don't know how to access the server log as my site is hosted. Cpuld it be something about file chmod statuses? I never know if this goes well when i reupload files bug i can't find a guidd to the right read/write/acess permissions.

TRY CLEARING CACHES

Posted by snowmountain on January 5, 2013 at 11:11pm

I also upgraded from 7.16 to 7.18, and I did not get the WSOD, but I did get the warning

No active batch.

and the db update did not apply.

SOLUTION

I cleared caches!

Then the db update worked. Perhaps clearing caches might work in this case too.

It might, but there is no way

Posted by mfgr on January 5, 2013 at 11:51pm

It might, but there is no way to clear the cache when the whole site has wsod is there?

It might, but there is no way

Posted by mfgr on January 5, 2013 at 11:51pm

It might, but there is no way to clear the cache when the whole site has wsod is there?

Sigh Turns out that I had a

Posted by mfgr on January 11, 2013 at 3:15pm

*Sigh* Turns out that I had a problem with my FTP client; files arrived on the server broken. I found out because I uploaded some pics and they looks a little broken. I guess the same happened with these files.
Uploaded everything with a different FTP client and the problem was gone.
That's how it goes sometimes...
Thanks to those who tried to help.