blank page on updating (was Re: [drupal-support] Updating from 4.6.0 to 4.6.3)

[Bèr Kessels]

Hello,

I suspect either a memory issue, or another php problem. Logs are your friend. 
You can best have a look in your error logs and post them to this thread. 
Please only post the relevant errors. 

Bèr

Op dinsdag 06 september 2005 23:00, schreef Bob Doyle:
> Hi Bèr,
>
> We have a very old Drupal (4.3.1) running some really valuable sites for
> the content management community (CMS-News.org, CMS-Forum.org) and are
> trying to upgrade in the recommended steps 4.3.1 > 4.4.2 > 4.5, etc.
>
> We get a very odd result (a blank page) when we run the update.php script.
>
> We backed everything up, added two new required fields to the database,
> then ran the update.php script for one of our sites (CMS-News).
>
> The results of clicking on the cms-news.org/update.php?op=update (just
> once) was a blank page.
>
> We also get a blank page when we request the updated site
> http://www.cms-news.org.
>
> We then tried the same operations for the CMS Forum site.  Just to check
> we were connecting properly, we requested http://cms-forum.org *before*
> we added the two new fields to its system table, and it came back
> (properly) with an error message saying "throttle" field was missing.
>
> This told us that the new 4.4.2 code was running.
>
> Any advice on how to get past this blank page? If we figure it out, we
> will add some notes on how to update to the drupal.org update discussion.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  Bèr Kessels wrote:
> >Only if you update from very old versions can you best first update to an
> >intermediate version. From 5.3..x you can best first got to a 4.5 then
> >onwards to 4.6.3
> >
> >But updating from 4.6.1 to 4.6.3 can be done without steps inbetween.
> >
> >I fail to see what all the fuzz is about.
>
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Regards,
 Bèr
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