Database won’t upgrade in 2.9

  • I upgraded to 2.9 on one of my sites but am unable to go past the database upgrade procedure. It chugs away for a while and then displays the WordPress logo. Going back to /wp-admin presents the db upgrade screen again, and the cycle continues.

    This only happens on one site; it’s database is 296MB. The other installations with smaller databases upgrade without much of a problem.

    One thing I discovered with this particular upgrade (from 2.8.6 to 2.9) is that you need to switch of WP-Super-Cache and turn caching off in the wp-config.php file (change “true” to “false”).

    I hope you can give me some pointers as to what is required to complete the upgrade.

    Frustrating!
    https://mahmood.tv

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  • Similar problem here. Deactivated all plugins through phpmyadmin, still didn’t help.
    Any help on this would be so friggin cool!

    Found solution for my issue in this thread!
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/342965?replies=20
    Except in my case my db_version was ‘9872’. Solution is below(thanks Matoo).

    ——————
    I followed jalmz link : https://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/solution-database-upgrade-required/2247.

    My problem was indeed that the Option_Value for the Option_Name db_version was ‘11548’ instead of ‘12329’ (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Version_2.9).

    I changed it with phpmyadmin, and I recovered my brand new 2.9 wordpress blog.
    ———————–

    Thanks! I had a similar trouble, and this seems to have solved the problem.

    Thread Starter mahmood

    (@mahmood)

    changing the database version in the options does not create the required tables and links provided in the upgrade script! be careful.

    Thread Starter mahmood

    (@mahmood)

    Finally resolved.

    As the database is over 6 years old, it collected a lot of optional plugin installs and un-installs over the years which unfortunately left quite a number of unused tables in the database. The Options table too was seriously bloated – to the tune of 122MB!

    So:
    1. I manually went in and removed the no longer needed tables (after backing up the database of course)
    2. I manually edited the db version number in the options table (as given above, thanks!) to 12329 to force going beyond the forced upgrade page
    3. I went to the admin panel, downloaded, installed and activated the “Clean Options” plugin.
    4. I got the plugin to remove all the hash rss entries (over 8 thousand of them!)
    5. I got the plugin to evaluate all the remaining entries in the table to determine the most likely unneeded entries and double checked them all. Selected the ones I know to be unneeded and deleted them.
    6. The above operation reduced the database size from 310MB down to 58MB!! Serious weight loss ??
    7. I re-edited the options value to put in the old database version of 11548
    8. Went to the Admin panel again /wp-admin
    9. Clicked the “upgrade database” button, and then within seconds the upgrade was reported successful and I have my blog back!

    Moral of the story? Maybe plug-in developers should clean up their database entries on deactivation of their plugins. And wish the WordPress team would consider adding this clean-up operation in a future version.

    Best regards and thanks for continuing to develop WordPress
    Mahmood Al-Yousif
    https://mahmood.tv

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