By Anonymous (not verified) on

After evaluating the new Drupal 6.1, I've found it to be quite nice. However, I wouldn't recommend trying to move from 5.x to 6.1 - to put it short - it's impossible.......

I've spent the past two days reviewing procedures and have made several attempts all which have utterly failed in one manner or another. I've moved a test copy of the 5.x site to another server and it runs fine. As soon as I go through the steps to upgrade to 6.x I end up with database errors and other problems that the site finally crashes.

Drupal is a great way to go - IF YOU DON'T PLAN ON UPGRADING.

If anyone has any suggestions as to a step-by-step procedure that works, I'm willing to try it again.

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CompShack commented

I'm currently on 5.7 and have done the upgrade about 5 times (on my test box) with no problems what so ever. All what I did is just follow the instructions in the install file.

What kind of errors are you getting?

The only reason I'm still on 5.7 is due to Views, Panles, Pathauto and couple more modules. Once those are ported to Drupal 6 I'm upgrading no questions asked.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

The errors were too numerous to mention.
Once you get to v6.1 then it's smooth sailing. This Drupal version has an automatic upgrade feature that takes all the fuss away.

Unless there's a step-by-step procedure that's been proven, I haven't the patience to go through it again.

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xmacinfo
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I've already upgraded a site from Drupal 5 to 6 without any error.

Maybe you forgot to upgrade some important files or forgot a few steps.

Anyway, before upgrading to any major release, you need to switch theme to Garland, make English as default and disable all third party modules.

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jjkd commented

I just rolled forward in the following sequence:

4.6 to 4.7.11
4.7.11 to 5.7
5.7 to 6.1

all in a row. Only had two problems, both database:

1) I had to drop and re-add a primary key index manually, I think that was on the first round
2) Once I got done, I had to straighten out the collation settings on some tables and columns

I guess I should have taken notes, at the time it didn't strike me as a big enough issue(s) to write down, nor take long to fix.
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Anonymous (not verified) commented

After going back through all the steps, I completed started the upgrade over and was successful.
The only problem is an error when I attempt to run cron.php

The error message looks like this: Table 'xxxxxx_websites.test' doesn't exist.

Aside from this everything else appears to be OK.