After upgrading from Drupal 5.4 to 5.6, I re-activated all of my previously installed modules. Views module shows that's it's active in the module list, but there is no way to access it. There's no menu link and browsing directly to /admin/build/views does not work.

Although I've done several upgrades where I did not run into this problem, it has happened to me twice while updating two different sites.

The first time it happened, I figured I had accidentally failed to disable Views during the upgrade procedures. But because I presumed that's what had happened, I tried to be extra certain all modules were disabled in subsequent upgrades. So although I think I disabled Views before the second upgrade, there is no way to be sure I didn't make that mistake, just as there's no way to prove I made the mistake the first time.

When this happened the first time, I ended up fixing the problem by uninstalling Views module and reinstalling. This, of course, removed all of my views. I'd rather not go through rebuilding all of my views.

Is there another solution for fixing this problem?

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jimsmith’s picture

jimsmith commented

I have to believe this is a bug because I've had it happen on additional sites. Has no one else seen this happen?

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

after you update Views, you have to run update.php and clear your cache_x tables.

jimsmith’s picture

jimsmith commented

I've always run update.php. Isn't update.php supposed to clear the cache?

I've searched everywhere (http://drupal.org/upgrade/) and cannot find any reference to clearing cache tables. If this is not automatic with update.php, shouldn't there be information to do that? I'm not finding any information.

Anyway, thanks, Moshe.

jimsmith’s picture

jimsmith commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I cleared these tables and still I do not have access to views:

cache
cache_content
cache_filter
cache_menu
cache_page
cache_views

catch’s picture

catch
he/him
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commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate of this: http://drupal.org/node/197895

jimsmith’s picture

jimsmith commented
Title: Views gone after upgrade » I'm getting tired of finding my site hosed after I upgrade it!

I'm getting tired of finding my site hosed after I upgrade it! What is the status here?

In the middle of disabling my modules for an upgrade on another site I discovered the link to /admin/build/views was gone, and I had not yet disabled that module.

This is dispiriting. If I can't get my Views back without uninstalling I will have completely destroyed several days worth of work and make my site unusable until I redo them.

jimsmith’s picture

jimsmith commented
Title: I'm getting tired of finding my site hosed after I upgrade it! » Site hosed during upgrade
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

Status changed in hopes of getting someone to look at this. I'm sorry if that's bad form, but I'm desperate. This must be a bug. I have not run into this until attempting to upgrade after Drupal ver. 5.4. It appears I'm not the only one to have this or similar problems. I'm certain I've followed upgrade procedures, as published at http://drupal.org/upgrade/, so I don't know what else I need to do.

catch’s picture

catch
he/him
Primary language English
commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

jns - please continue this over at http://drupal.org/node/197895 so that all these reports can be found in one place.

Also please (on that issue, not here), post your php, mysql version and any other contrib modules you have installed.