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By mumonzan on
So.....
I have a site growing with Drupal from version 4.x...
Last months I updgraded from 6.23 to 7.17... there were some problems... but it was running. I suppose my current problems are from that previous upgrade... maybe.
Anyway, now I upgraded to 7.21 and....
...first attempt to run /update.php in any browser always result with "incorrect or unsupported compression methods" error. (this problem I faced also 2 months ago when upgrading to 7.17, I don't remember how I workaround it...)
After some research I commented that 2 lines in .htaccess:
# Header set Content-Encoding gzip
# Header append Vary Accept-Encoding
{it would be great to find real reson behind those errors, and why I have to disable content compression to be able to run anything... but this is not main problem}
This change result in /update.php properly displayed, but only up to the step "Run updates"... in any browser it just display this step, and.. nothing happens. No real updates of database underhood.
Maybe my database is too owercrowded with trashes from all previous versions?? What I can do?
Any ideas? How to run sql updates in database itself? Any other way around this problem??
Appreciate any support.
Chears,
Comments
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I don't recall offhand but there may not have been any db updates needed to be performed between 7.17 and 7.21. A way to test would be to install a dev 7.17 site and update it to 7.21.
There are plenty of updates
There are plenty of updates waiting, on "Review updates" screen I have:
system module
7061 - Migrate upload.module data to the newly created file field.
7062 - Replace 'system_list' index with 'bootstrap' index on {system}.
7063 - Delete {menu_links} records for 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK which would not appear in a fresh install.
7064 - Remove block_callback field from {menu_router}.
7065 - Remove the default value for sid.
7066 - Migrate the 'file_directory_temp' variable.
7067 - Grant administrators permission to view the administration theme.
7068 - Update {url_alias}.language description.
7069 - Remove the obsolete 'site_offline' variable. @see update_fix_d7_requirements()
7070 - Remove the obsolete 'drupal_badge_color' and 'drupal_badge_size' variables.
7071 - Add index missed during upgrade, and fix field default.
7072 - Remove the obsolete 'site_offline_message' variable. @see update_fix_d7_requirements()
7073 - Add binary to {file_managed}, in case system_update_7034() was run without it.
7074 - This update has been removed and will not run.
7076 - Convert menu_links query strings into arrays.
7077 - Revert {file_managed}.filename changed to a binary column.
and nothing happens when I click "Apply pending updates"
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seems like a D6 - D7 update that was never run, or that failed when it was updated from D6 to D7 and ignored.
Upload.module was removed in D7. Performing research on issues with that update led me to: http://drupal.org/node/966210 which may aid.
The rest of the updates should be researched to try and narrow down when they were introduced, and what stops them from running.