Failed upgrade to 5.6.1 - Site is in an unknown state

[UKCobra]

The forum update went smoothly this morning, I have attached the screen shots of the 'different' screens I saw this time, which is the first upgrade since the Zero Day patching that I did in 2019....

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Thanks Mark for the update.

I will download the files again, I am pretty sure I took the normal upgrade files, and that would explain why it gave me the option of starting from, 5.5.0....

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We had to clear some table caches to get the site operational.
Will attempt the upgrade again tomorrow morning. As I am on a Security Patch release, should I do something different ?
As I...

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I attempted to upgrade to 5.6.1 this morning, from the 5.5.5 Security Patch following the Zero Day vulnerability a few months back.
It has not gone well, and I had to restore from backups and still...

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It was performed via Firefox. As confirmed by my hosting company.
The last upgrade was the 5.5.2 Security Patch, which was a copy of the files and no activity from the Browser.
If I recall...

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Hi Wayne,

I have not changed anything related to XML and the System Requirements look OK.
What I uncovered early Sunday morning, was that the Hosting Company was able to complete the...

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It failed again this morning, going from VB 5.5.2 PL2 to VB 5.5.3 PL2, and it is failing at the same stage (Step 2 - XML).

Restoring from backup again. Any idea why this is happening ?...

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The Settings.

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Spent a little time this morning trying to upgrade to 5.5.4 PL2.
Got the following error at stage 2 of 5.5.2 where it does :

Status: Processing XML, Step 2 of 22

I get...

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Given all the stories of how people have been affected differently, I imagine there are different groups of people trying this exploit. Some looking for financial payback, some are just looking for creating...

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I am getting this error when trying to activate the TapaTalk service :

We are not able to verify the status of the Tapatalk plugin on your site via (https://www.[REMOVED]/forums/mobiquo/mobiquo.php)....

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This is the error I am getting :


Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 75497472 bytes) in /home/mocgb10/public_html/forums/core/vb/cache...

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When I try the Diagnostics > System Into, the screen comes back with no data.

From the Control Panel, could the setting be 256MB ? ...

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Code lines removed.
From the ADMIN CP:

What version of PHP are you using? ...

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Hi Wayne,
Not defensive about the code at all, it got me out of a hole. And indeed in order for you to troubleshoot the real issue, the 2 lines of code I added need to be removed, and then I can...

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Upgrading to 5.5.1 fixed the problem. I had no where near 200 channels.

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My hosting Provider is Nethosted in the UK, and they have been my provider for the last 15 years, so this is the first time an upgrade has failed.
I specifically upgraded to PHP 7.1 to facilitate...

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Quick Google search, and followed Post 11 on this thread.

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...ading-to-5-4-1
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My upgrade failed, and my forum is in an unknown state.

I commenced the upgrade, from 4.5.4 to 5.5.1 and it timed out on Step 2 (XML) for 5.5.1

You can see the image below....

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I have had this also many times, a simple answer, entered correctly but rejected. The frequency reduced once I did the same as Post 4 about multiple spelling versions. Why it helped, not so sure. Occasionally...