By davec611 on

Help! I just went though an upgrade of drupal from 4.5 to 4.6.5 Everything was going (relatively) smoothly and I seemed to have successfully upgraded core. I then started trying to put back my add on modules. Everything was looking good until I went to the block module to adjust the blocks according to the 4.6 method. (Up to that point blocks were showing on both sides of the page and I thought I just had to put in the correct pages for viewing) I enabled a couple of blocks, pressed submit, and Bang! all my blocks dissapeared including my personal navigation block.

I have tried to resubmit the block page but nothing works and I can't figure out what is up. And I cant even navigate around the site to admin etc

Any suggestions are much appreciated!

Dave

www.forestlake.ca

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davec611 commented

I just checked the mysql db. Both 'blocks' and 'boxes' have zero entries. I assume this is relevant?

Davec

Forest Lake Online

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sepeck commented

Are you using php5 and the XTemplate theme engine?

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davec611 commented

Steven, Thanks for your help

I am using PHP 4.4.1

I followed the instructions in " Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.6.3" - http://drupal.org/node/30699 which means I changed to Bluemarine (which i believe is xtemplate) prior to commencing the upgrade. I did switch back to chameleon after I had finished dupgrading core and was working on adding my modules back.

One confession. I did the conversion as called for from 4.5.2 to 4.6.0. However I did go straight from 4.6.0 to 4.6.5. The instructions say that you should take multiple steps (4.6.0 to 4.6.2 and then 4.6.2 to 4.6.3) but I had been told there were no db changes and therefore it should be safe to proceed as I did.

Possible mistake? The site seemed to be working fine right up until I tried to adjust the block module.

Any thoughts most welcome
Davec

Forest Lake Online

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vwX commented

First thing I'd do is delete the rows in the cache table. If you still can't navigate then just add ?q=admin/block to the end of your domain name to get to the block admin page.

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davec611 commented

vwX

I emptied cache - no effect

No problem in navigating to the block page directly as you suggested. The problem is when I try to enable a block or blocks and hit 'submit, the answer comes back green but the blocks are not enabled and the table remains empty. I literally do not even have the core blocks such as login which does not even have to be enabled ( Of course i cant even log out to see). and fwiw the block table in mysql stays empty.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the suggestions

Davec

Forest Lake Online