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[skicdave]

Thought I was done after spending 12 long days converting to vBulletin 5.2.0 from 3.8.7 last month. Unfortunately not. Users are getting frustrated with issues that appear to be due to overloading the...

[skicdave]

Well after 2 weeks on this, I can finally relax a bit and say that all is fine in the world of vBulletin at my end again lol.

Despite the difficulties in converting over, I must say that...

[skicdave]

Yes Mark, sorry yes meant 5.2.0.

[skicdave]

So looks like vBulletin 5 has a problem because I am trying to use 1 byte of data for an upload! lol.

Only figured this one out since I was getting a bunch of admin emails such as...
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[skicdave]

Man oh man... what a horror trying to upgrade from 3.8.7 to 5.0.2.

Here I am 12 days in and its been a fight all the way and I am running out of time! After 40+ attempts resolving every issue...

[skicdave]

Yes I did open a ticket.

[skicdave]

Anybody have any ideas? Into my 5th day trying to get 5.2.0 working... getting very frustrated! Have not been able to locate any solutions, or starting points. I'd hate to have to start debugging vBulletin...

[skicdave]

Wow... well its been 3 full days fighting this upgrade on a new CentOS test server before I run it on my production server in a few weeks.
Converting 3.8.7 on a test server to 5.2.0.

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[skicdave]

Same here, but it is when we upgraded to 3.5.4 recently. Emailing worked fine before!

Now it is stuck by default sending 1 email per minute.

I checked under Options -->...

[skicdave]

After hours of looking into this it appears php is not properly configured for mysql... working on that one before I get back to vB.

Assuming I get the php/mysql issue resolved, what are...

[skicdave]

I am currently changing our dedicated unix server host... so new provider, new box, and much more recent software. Basically the same setup, but bit faster server and much more recent version of apache,...

[skicdave]

No problem. If not I'll can always relocate the data to a new field.

Thanks again Steve.

[skicdave]

That did it! Went smooth once I removed the index. I'll add it back later and make a note for any future upgrades.

Thanks MUCHO Steve... yeeeerr good!

Cheers

[skicdave]

Hmm... ok, looks like we had added an index on field5. Perhaps you are going to suggest removing the index on that field and trying from step 3 again?

[skicdave]

Well this isn't going so well. The upgrade script start to do the upgrade to 3.0.2.
Then at at Step 3 it bombs (url shows: ...../install/upgrade13.php?step=3)

Database error in vBulletin...

[skicdave]

Our site started off as UBB years ago. Been using vB for about 5 years. Active site, loads of custom hacks.

http://timefortuckerman.com

[skicdave]

Hmmm... I had a hack to display number of users online on another page of our site. I had copied the code from index.php. This worked fine, but I think there was some issue with the maxlogged in being...

[skicdave]

Hey Sting... I just came on here search out an answer to this problem myself after some of our forum members asked why the 'most users' ever was out of wack. Most users ever seems to always be the same...

[skicdave]

Well Steve, this one is a real puzzler! So I just backed up the images/misc/vbulletin3_logo_white.gif and copied my logo image to images/misc/vbulletin3_logo_white.gif and it works now ...

[skicdave]

I tracked this down a little further. I changed the title image in the style from

images/misc/vbulletin3_logo_white.gif

to

images/misc/tftlogo2003-300.gif...